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 [...]

Oxford University economist Paul Klemperer has written a very interesting article in the FT, rebutting the climate change sceptics. If the scientific consensus is wrong (he argues), and our current models of climate change are inaccurate, then we should be more worried, not less. This is because, if the models are wrong, then [...]

On Monday UN climate chief Yvo de Boer urged EU nations to offer financial help to growing polluters such as China and India over climate change policy, to help secure a global deal next year. 
de Boer claimed that despite ”significant movement in the U.S. position” especially concerning future carbon binding regulations, and the leadership the EU has shown [...]

Global shipping traffic may generate nearly three times more carbon emissions than previously believed, according to a UN report seen by the UK Guardian.
“It calculates that annual emissions from the world’s merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO², or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas.
The report suggests that [...]

The UK Guardian newspaper reports that an international team of climate scientists has identified the geographic regions most at risk from catastrophic climate change in the coming 100 years.
“Although the scientists cannot be sure precisely when each region will reach the point of no return, their assessment warns it may already be too late to [...]