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 [...]

1. Measuring your organisation’s Carbon Footprint ISO 14064-1(Essentials Greenhouse Gas Inventories for Organizations) This course provides the information for the first step organisations need to determine their carbon footprint and the ongoing management [...]

China's top economic planner has confirmed that it has approved a pilot greenhouse gas emission rights trading scheme in seven provincial regions in an effort to encourage carbon emission reductions. The municipalities [...]

We estimate the fossil fuel reserves held by the top 100 listed coal companies and the top 100 listed oil and gas companies represent potential emissions of 745 GtCO2. This exceeds the [...]

The Environment Agency has published its first Energy Efficiency Performance League Table ranking 2,000 CRC organisations according to how they manage their energy use, including major supermarkets, retailers, restaurant chains, government departments, [...]

Firms that voluntarily disclose GHGs have Environmental Management Systems (uncertified and certified), have higher corporate governance quality and publicly report to the CDP, they tend to be large and in the energy, [...]

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. [...]