The industry is hoping the rules can be finalised by the end of the year so another licensing round can take place.

Thirteen investors with stakes in expanding airports including Bristol and Heathrow are signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment scheme, DeSmog can reveal.

Listed clients of public relations firm 6 Hillgrove distanced themselves from Lois Perry’s views when approached.

Campaigners say the research shows Total and other oil and gas majors have "stolen the precious time of a generation to stem the climate crisis”.

Campaigners described the newly announced sponsorship deal as "greenwash, plain and simple".

Citi, JPMorgan and Barclays among “world’s biggest financiers” of oil, gas and coal at government summit on green future.

Matthew Lesh will be joining the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a free market think tank which played a significant role in advocating for a "hard" Brexit and has criticised the government's approach to climate action as expensive and ineffective.

The former Global Warming Policy Forum URL now re-directs to the Net Zero Watch website and the group’s Twitter account has been renamed.

The former UK chancellor currently works for an investment bank that advised the oil giant on a multibillion-pound purchase of US shale assets from BHP Group in 2018.

The comments were made at an event hosted by the free-market Institute of Economic Affairs, which has reportedly taken funding from oil giant BP for decades.