The the UK Department of Business, Environment and Regulatory Affairs (BERR) announces a competition for companies to build a full scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility in the UK. The project is to be funded by UK taxpayers under as long as there is a demonstration that long term capture of carbon dioxide is [...]

James Hansen, the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, has said that our targets for carbon emissions reductions are not adequate, and should be cut further.
“Hansen says the EU target of 550 parts per million of C02 - the most stringent in the world - should be slashed to [...]

Today’s New York Times has published photographs of the hand signals used by traders in open outcry trading markets. The signals are modeled by Raymond Carbone, an oil trader, and are those used on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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The Governor of the central bank of Australia, the Reserve Bank, has warned that Australians should expect to pay more for energy once a carbon emissions trading scheme has been implemented. Article here.

“AUSTRALIANS must accept that emissions trading is designed to make them pay more and lower their standard of living, at least [...]