The landmark announcement by the UK government last week at the Rio+20 conference is the first of its kind to make it mandatory for companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions.The [...]

Who or what is the IPCC?The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was jointly established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to assess [...]

With a background in physics and sustainability, and a stint as a math teacher in Morocco, I never imagined I would end up at a technology company like Google. But as I [...]

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said today that he may introduce an environmental tax to replace a carbon-reduction program that’s become a “burden” on business.Proposals for the new tax will [...]

Regulation, along with a drive to improve efficiency and enhance corporate reputation, has encouraged the majority of large organizations to look at how they can measure and reduce carbon in their own [...]

A program to curb the increase of greenhouse gas emissions in China’s Guangdong province will probably be the largest of the nation’s seven test climate- protection systems,according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.Guangdong [...]

Unavoidable European Aviation Emissions Trading – Comply or fly-by.Over the past week we have seen growing opposition over the implementation of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the aviation industry. Airline operators [...]

At the COP17 meeting Durban there was important progress made on the establishment of the Green Climate Fund. The fund is set to mobilise $100 billion annually to aid developing nations reduce [...]

Six people have been convicted of tax evasion in Germany after an international probe into carbon emissions trading involving Deutsche Bank.The investigation is one of the biggest in the EU into how [...]

The Government of Canada has announced on 12 December its formal withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. In a statement delivered in the Canadian House of Commons, Peter Kent, Canadian Minister for the [...]