David Fickling

Silver’s booms and busts are typically turbocharged by excitable investors. Sober industrialists bear their share of responsibility, though.

It took months of diplomatic entreaties, cajoling and threats for the administration of President Donald Trump to get the world to delay a global price on shipping emissions. His rearguard action to prop up the age of oil on the high seas is doomed to fail, however.

If you want an emblem of a bankrupt energy policy, it’s hard to improve on the sight of Shell Plc stations running out of fuel in the very place that turned the company into an oil giant.

If there’s one force that’s shaped the past few decades, it’s the relentless willpower of the Chinese Communist Party.

Amid the Trump-induced crisis for clean energy this year, one beacon of hope has stood out: China.

There are few things sellers in financial markets like more than a government put.

You might think the business of mining is digging up valuable minerals. In fact, it’s almost the opposite.

Sales of electrified rigs are booming in China, with the US lagging far behind.

Kuwait is a cautionary tale of where fossil-fuel addiction can lead.

The legal wrangling points to the end of China’s heroic phase of innovative growth.