New Zealand has banned the construction of new state owned coal and gas power plants as part of their aim to generate 90% of their power from renewable sources by 2025, according to ecotality.com. This ban will soon be extended to the private sector. Currently, 70% of their power comes from wind, hydro and [...]

Australia will soon be building a giant 1000 Megawatt wind farm in the New South Wales province that will be capable of powering 400,000 homes. This comes as part of its plan to hit the target of “generating 15 per cent of its energy needs from “low polluting” sources by 2020″, according to The Register. [...]

The British Colombia province in Canada is over the course of the next year, taking the Canadian lead in fighting greenhouse gas emissions after Quebec recently imposed a tax on CO2 emitting hydrocarbons. Laws will be put in place by next spring, imposing limits on industrial emissions for one, allowing for the creation of a [...]

MEPs in the European Parliament Environment Committee (ENVI) voted this Tuesday to include European airlines and all flights to the EU in the emissions trading system (ETS) by 2010. By this they are speeding up the EC’s proposal to include flights within the EU by 2011 and flights to-and-from the EU by 2012, thus combining [...]

Environmental groups in America are petitioning to use the power of the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, to act on the high carbon emitting shipping industry, according to the New York Times. The industry is responsible for 3 to 5% of global emissions, more than all but six countries worldwide.
“In the new petitions, Attorney General Edmund [...]