For all the buzz around wind, solar and electric cars, energy company executives had plenty to say Tuesday about the continuing role of fossil fuels and nuclear power at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Summit.

Climate change is a strangely divisive topic. While it is a scientific certainty, there are many who look for ways to avoid reality. While this might have been possible at one point, it's become far too late to ignore global warming.

Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change

Oil and coal consumption around the world must be reduced if the 2 degree C global warming target is to be kept. This gives cause for concern; yet it also motivates change. Is there an end in sight to fossil fuel energy?

Experts are not predicting the end of drilling quite yet: but the decision in Oslo has sharpened the debate over the future profitability of the industry

With Brent almost touching US$65/b and WTI within shot of US$60/b, this is cheer for the market, where most participants had resigned themselves to a prolonged period of US$50/b oil. There are several factors propelling this rise. OPEC 's insistence that its supply freeze is working is proving true; despite the rise in American production (and American exports hitting all-time highs), the OPEC deal appears to be slowly clearing out the global glut. And then there has been a re-emergence of something the market hasn’t seen in a while – geopolitical risk premium.

One of US’s only public events, originally billed as promoting clean energy, has since been changed to favour coal and nuclear power

The genius mind behind the branding of the Peak Demand community belongs to none other than Chris Corridore.

BlackRock investment group, with $5 trillion in assets, is bullish on electric cars and renewables.

Jo Hee

The NEB believes wind energy production will double and solar energy production more than triple over the next quarter century.

Prominent climate scientist James Hansen has a message for world leaders gathering in Germany for the United Nations conference on global warming.

The National Energy Board now projects fossil fuel use in Canada will peak in 2019, a major downward revision of similar estimates it has made annually for the past decade.

This is the second such win for India, which has vocally expressed its grievances of being locked into expensive long-term contracts signed when LNG prices were at their peak, but are now out-of-sync in an increasingly oversupplied market. Most see this as a harbinger of times to come, as LNG buyers gain in power, and many are watching to see if the traditional LNG consuming juggernauts of Japan, South Korea and China might follow.

China will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, becoming the biggest market to do so in a move that will accelerate the push into the electric car market led by companies including BYD Co. and BAIC Motor Corp.

Climate Change & Extreme Weather (PBS News: 30th August)

Twenty-two senators wrote a letter to the president when he was said to be on the fence about backing out. They received more than $10m from oil, gas and coal companies the past three election cycles