The Government is expected to announce key decisions on solar power and fracking, amid warnings ministers are “unravelling” policies on clean energy.
The latest round of licences for shale gas exploration are set to be unveiled, in the wake of a vote by MPs to allow controversial fracking for the fossil fuel under national parks and other protected areas.
And a final decision will be made on cuts to small-scale renewables subsidies after ministers proposed dramatic reductions of 87% for domestic solar schemes.
Vattenfall last night vowed to press ahead with their £230million offshore wind project, and welcomed the Supreme Court's ruling.
Andy Payne, project director for Vatenfall's Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm (AOWF), said the Swedish energy giant was looking at ways it will fund the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) - and that a decision will be made by mid-next year.
Labour has called for a moratorium on fracking in the UK after MPs approved proposals to allow the controversial process under national parks and other protected areas.
India’s leading court has ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel vehicles in and around New Delhi and slapped a stiff levy on trucks entering the capital as it struggles with record pollution.
The Supreme Court also banned the entry into New Delhi of trucks over 10 years old and trucks travelling through the city.
An equipment supplier that lists BP, Shell and Total among its clients has unveiled major expansion plans that include taking its headcount from five staff to 15 and relocating its Aberdeen office to larger premises.
Fraserburgh-based Vistem – which provides products including inflatable shelters and low-level access lifts – aims for a five-fold increase in turnover from £760,000 in 2015 to £4million in 2016.
A US oil and gas producer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the low oil price continues.
Magnum Hunter said it expects to emerge from bankruptcy in April next year.
Fuel retailers have been urged to cut the price of diesel to under £1 per litre.
Unleaded fell below that symbolic level at many supermarkets last week for the first time since 2009, excluding promotions.
But diesel remains more expensive despite its wholesale price being around 3p per litre (ppl) cheaper than unleaded.
The UN nuclear agency have approved a resolution that ends a decade-long probe of allegations that Iran worked on atomic weapons.
The probe had to be formally closed as part of an Iran-six nation deal restricting Iran’s current nuclear programmes which could be used to make such weapons, in exchange for sanctions relief for Tehran.
Air strikes on a fuel market in a village in northern Syria have killed and wounded dozens of people and destroyed several tanker trucks, according to opposition monitoring groups.
Activists said war planes also struck another market in the northern village of Maskaneh which is under the control of Islamic State, killing at least 12 people and wounding many others.
It was not immediately clear whose war planes carried out the strikes, although the monitoring groups said the Russians targeted both markets.
Campaigners have called for significant investment in energy-efficiency measures after new figures revealed almost no change in fuel poverty levels last year.
Inflation is expected to edge to zero when official figures for November are published today, as oil price cuts and Black Friday discounting eased compared to a year ago.
Thousands of Brazilians have marched to demand that Congress impeach President Dilma Rousseff, whose government is plagued by an overwhelming corruption scandal and a dismal economy.
Aberdeen harbour has taken another step on its way to delivering a £400million expansion with the appointment of a legal adviser for the project.
Pinsent Masons will advise on procurement, construction, funding, planning, environmental and property issues relating to the planned Nigg Bay facility to the south of the existing harbour.
The transformation of Nigg Bay is seen as vital if Aberdeen is to capitalise on the cruise ship, renewables and decommissioning industries.
A “high ambition coalition” of countries including the EU, some of the world's poorest and most vulnerable countries and the US, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Iceland and Norway has called for a strong climate deal, with Brazil the most recent country to join the group.
