CO2 Reductions
The latest low carbon economy news and issues affecting CO2 reductions, carbon footprints, from biofuels and technology to climate change policies and regulations
An increasing number of UK businesses, large and small, are reporting their carbon emissions.
The United States reiterated on Friday that it was committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 even though the Senate has failed to pass legislation.
The U.N. panel of climate scientists will look at the costs of "second best" ways of fighting global warming amid doubts that all countries will sign up to UN-led action, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
The UN's climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to its credibility, an independent review concludes.
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2009 fell 1.3 percent to 31.3 billion tonnes in the first year-on-year decline in this decade, German renewable energy institute IWR said on Friday.
GreenWise editor Louise Bateman shares her thoughts about the latest developments shaping the green business agenda.
Global climate change is partly to blame for the abnormally hot and dry weather in Moscow, cloaked in a haze of smoke from wildfires, say researchers.
UN climate talks have moved backward rather than forward toward a hoped-for deal later this year as nations make slow progress on pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and add more proposals to the working document.
UN climate talks this week urgently need to focus and speed up as time runs out to secure a global deal on combating climate change by the end of the year, delegates at the opening of negotiations on Monday said.
The cost to the taxpayer of meeting Scotland's climate change target has been put at about £8 billion by 2020.
International scientists have injected fresh evidence into the debate over global warming, saying that climate change is "undeniable" and shows clear signs of "human fingerprints" in the first major piece of research since the "Climategate" controversy.
Britain may need to double its electricity supply and virtually eliminate emissions from power stations by 2050 if it is to meet legally binding climate change targets, the government said on Tuesday.
Senate Democrats unveiled a slimmed down bill on Tuesday aimed at reforming offshore drilling, as doubts grew that Congress would be able to pass any substantial energy legislation this year.
US Senate Democrats said on Thursday they will wait until September at the earliest to take up broad climate change legislation, a potentially fatal blow to the White House push to curb greenhouse gases.
The U.N.'s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight.