The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has announced Europe’s targets for alternative energy sources and carbon emission reductions. The targets are ambitious, and the proposed new rules for the ETS should lead to higher prices. Member states and MEPs need to endorse these proposals before they come into force.
“The [...]

According to this report, engineers at the French Atomic Energy Commission have developed a method to harnass energy from rain. The technology is still very immature yet, however.
“Engineers have developed a way of harnessing the force of rain storms to generate power.
Although the technology produces only tiny amounts of energy, researchers believe it [...]

16 US States and 5 environmental groups, led by California, yesterday filed suit in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the US Federal Government, whose Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has refused to allow states to impose harsher limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks than those of the Bush [...]

A new scientific study seems to indicate that the ability of forests to absorb carbon dioxide is decreasing, according to this report.

” “We are currently getting a 50 per cent discount on the climatic impact of our fossil fuel emissions,” the climate scientist John Miller, of the University of Colorado, wrote in the journal Nature [...]

Europe’s large power generators face a tougher regulatory regime, as from yesterday, with restrictions on emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide, and the start of Phase 2 of the EU Carbon Emissions Trading scheme. The UK Guardian’s Mark Milner discusses the implications for UK power generators, here.
“The EU’s large combustion [...]