Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he is backing the proposals to increase targets for UK emissions reductions with full force. The new Climate Change Committee is expected to report on whether the current target of 60% reduction in emissions should be increased to 80% by 2050.
Today he gave his first speech on the environment, [...]

The London Olympics organisers are doing everything possible to ensure that the games are the greenest ever. To ensure this they are going as far as making changes to the flame which burns throughout the Olympic month, according to the FT.
Whether or not this really makes a difference to the environment, it’s the thought that [...]

Danish statistician and environmentalist-sceptic, Bjorn Lomborg, has just published a new book, “Cool It - The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” (Knopf, 2007). From the book’s blurb:
“Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are [...]

The Vatican is announcing it will become the world’s first carbon neutral state. Could we expect any less?
The International Herald Tribune reports that the Vatican has tried to reduce it’s emissions, installing solar panels, but now wants to lead by example by offsetting all of the emissions it creates from lighting it’s St. Peter’s Basilica, [...]

The widely used environmentally unfriendly packaging material will soon, we expect, be replaced by a biodegradable alternative which has recently been developed in a Chinese university. They embed water-absorbing resin particles within the polymer, which then expand when in contact with water, breaking the entire structure down into a powder which will then biodegrade. This [...]