Fossil Fuels

Student protesters calling for the university to drop fossil fuel investments staged a sit in inisde the administration block.

A handful of people have chained themselves to a South Canterbury Fonterra factory, to protest against the organisation's burning of coal to power its processing plants.

Environmental, health, union and church groups are calling on the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to immediately and fully divest from fossil fuels.

ACC has no intention of copying the New Zealand Superannuation Fund's plan to invest less in companies connected with fossil fuels, it says.

A pledge by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to invest less in fossil fuels and more in clean energy does not go far enough, critics say.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund will start getting rid of its investments in fossil fuel companies, it has announced.

An ANZ bank in Wellington has been forced to close for the day after enviromental protesters scaled the building and blocked its entrance.

Energy analysts and the government are bracing themselves for a tepid response to the latest call for more exploration for oil and gas.

Scientists have found that the increase of methane in the atmosphere since 2007 has been caused by agriculture rather than fossil fuel production.

Prime Minister John Key has been labelled a hypocrite for calling on the world to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at the climate change talks in Paris.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is taking a hard line with political activists trying to tell it where to spend its money.