The US House of Representatives has passed a bill making it illegal for US airlines to comply with the controversial EU ETS Aviation scheme. The move comes in the wake of the [...]

Policy Update: UK scraps Longannet CCS project funding The British government has cancelled plans to fund a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project at Longannet in Scotland,according to the Department of [...]

Research by the Potsdam Institute calculates that to reduce the chance of exceeding a 2°C global warming to 20% or 1 in 5, the global carbon budget for 2000-2050 is 886 GtCO2. [...]

Under a controversial plan passed in the Australian parliament, Australia’s 500 biggest greenhouse gas emitterswill pay $23* for every ton of carbon they emit. The carbon pricing scheme, which will go into [...]

Half of multinational companies plan to select suppliers based on carbon performance, according to a study by Carbon Trust Advisory. The research says that 29% of suppliers are likely to lose their [...]

The European Sustainable Energy Award for Prisons Carbon Action/CMSE are delighted to have been awarded the European Sustainable Energy Award for Prisons project.The European sustainable energy award for prisons encourages intelligent use of [...]

Carbon Action has just returned from an intensive 3 weeks in China which included visits to hospitals, iron and steel mills, bitumen refinery's, an oil port, power stations and magnesium processing plants [...]

The new Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme began in earnest on the 1st April! The scheme aims to achieve an annual energy reduction of 3.2m tonnes by 2020 and stimulate [...]