Is nuclear power the answer to reducing carbon emissions? Environmental pioneer Stewart Brand seems to think so, according to this New York Times report.
“He’s also looking for green nuclear engineers, and says he feels guilty that he and his fellow environmentalists created so much fear of nuclear power. Alternative energy and conservation are [...]

The conservative Australian government has joined Cuba and Venezuala in deciding to make the sale of incandescent light bulbs illegal from 2010 and force everyone to replace them with fluorescent bulbs. As seems typical of the climate-change-sceptical administration of John Howard, this action is all sound-and-fury, achieving little.
“The Government boasts that banning incandescents will [...]

Donald MacKenzie, professor of sociology at Edinburgh University and a prominent sociologist of economics, has written an article reviewing the political economy of carbon emissions trading, available from his web-page here. The article is a gentle introduction to the history and structure of the emissions trading, for anyone reading this who is new to [...]

The February 2006 issue of Tendances Carbone (n°11) is available from here (English PDF). This regular newsletter is a joint venture of the Climate Change Task Force of Caisse des Dépôts and Powernext.
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As mentioned below by Jon yesterday, British charity, Christian Aid, has published a report saying that many British companies have not measured all their carbon emissions. Christian Aid believe companies should measure, in addition to their direct emissions, also their indirect emissions, for example, those which arise from activities by companies upstream in their [...]