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18/5/2013
European policymakers face a difficult decision on building carbon capture and storage (CCS) - saving money in the long run requires spending more upfront.
CCS captures carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions from a fossil fuel power plant and ...
14/5/2013
In a little over 18 months, South Korea will launch a scheme that will cap around 70% of its greenhouse gas
emissions. A White Paper published today by research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in cooperation with Ernst & Young, concludes that ...
10/5/2013
Britain's Green Investment Bank (GIB), the world's first bank solely focused on lending to clean energy projects, said it allocated 635 million pounds ($988 million) in funding over its first five months of operation.The bank, which ...
6/5/2013
After working 37 years in the coal mines of West Virginia, Ronny Justice punctuates his sentences with coughs. He lost his job a year ago, leaving him without health insurance just as he’s battling the early stages of black-lung ...
5/5/2013
Fracking separates fossil fuels from rock more than a mile underground. The drilling technique, a boon for the natural gas industry this past decade, also divides environmentalists. Greens, locally and globally, are losing sight of their common ...
1/5/2013
General Motors called on Barack Obama and Congress to work together on climate change on Wednesday, saying the effort would be good for business.
GM, which makes the plug-in Chevy Volt, was the first of the big three car makers to sign ...
1/5/2013
More than 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines have been cleaned up or removed from U.S. roads in a federal program designed to reduce smog and greenhouse gases, according to a new Environmental Protection Agency report to ...
30/4/2013
A U.S. submission to U.N.-backed negotiations shows how a scaled-down global climate deal which falls
short of a full treaty can be agreed in 2015.
Much will depend on the United States, as the world's second biggest carbon emitter whose ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
24/4/2013
UN talks to construct a legally binding climate change deal are set to start on April 29, amid warnings from scientists that greenhouse gas
emissions are rising too far, too fast.
Organisers say the ‘scope, structure and design’ of a ...
22/4/2013
For carbon markets across the world it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Plummeting European Union carbon prices following a key EU vote seem to demonstrate in the clearest
terms that cap and trade is doomed to fail. ...
21/4/2013
On a showery afternoon last week in West London, a ripple of enthusiasm went through the trading floor of CF Partners, a privately owned financial company. The price of carbon allowances, shown in green lights on a board hanging from the ceiling, ...
17/4/2013
The reduction of greenhouse gases that cycle through the atmosphere more quickly than carbon dioxide could significantly reduce potential sea level rise this century, according to a study in which the National Center for Atmospheric Research was ...
15/4/2013
The European Union’s 54 billion- euro ($71 billion) carbon
emissions cap-and-trade system may be undermined if the bloc’s Parliament votes against Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard’s temporary rescue plan tomorrow.
The strategy, ...
14/4/2013
A new study finds that it is possible to greatly slow the rate of sea level rise, which is one of the biggest threats global warming poses, by
cutting so-called "short-lived climate pollutants,' which warm the climate on timescales of a few weeks ...
10/4/2013
Yesterday, the Conservative MEP and self-styled right wing firebrand Daniel Hannan asked a thought-provoking question. The question, voiced on Twitter, was directed at "all the Lefties complaining that Margaret Thatcher closed coal-mines", and ...
8/4/2013
Alberta's energy industry is pushing for carbon taxes half as high as what government has proposed, with oil sands companies lobbying for less stringent goals that would leave the province
short of meeting its
emissions goals.
The ...
8/4/2013
Australia needs a well-defined, long-term strategy if it is to meet
emissions targets and contribute fairly to global efforts to tackle climate change, a new report says.
A national 'carbon budget' would clearly set out the exact amount ...
6/4/2013
Our planet is already showing the stress of radical climate change, affecting the Earth right before our eyes. The climate is different than when we were kids, and it is changing more rapidly than ever before. Accordingly, the underlying thesis ...
30/3/2013
Last Friday, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a
short report outlining various steps on climate change that President Barack Obama could take during his second
term. Facing political gridlock on ...
25/3/2013
The European Commission is considering fresh legal action over the UK's pollution problem following allegations London officials "massaged" air quality data last year in order to avoid hefty fines.
A number of green groups have ...
24/3/2013
Josh Fox, director of the documentary "Gasland," protests against hydraulic fracturing outside an office of Gov. Tom Corbett in Philadelphia in September. Fox's documentary has become the manifesto of the anti-fracking movement. (Matt Rourke, ...
23/3/2013
The theory was straightforward and seemed to hold with common sense: One day soon, the Earth would hit its halfway point of global oil production -- its "peak" -- and thereafter, it would see a steady decline. Those behind the concept called it ...
21/3/2013
For British entrepreneur Timothy Porter and millions of other Europeans who get generous financial incentives for solar panels, the sun has been very lucrative.
Not only does the government pay Porter for producing solar energy he ...
21/3/2013
George Osborne, the Chancellor, announced a number of incentives to encourage companies to start hydraulic fracturing -- or 'fracking' -- to extract the valuable fossil fuel.
He said companies will receive tax breaks on the profits from ...