The Guardian revealed some of the main policies promoted in the Liberal Democrat party’s 50-page statement titled “Taking The Lead”, which aims to make Britain completely carbon-free by 2050.
The statement includes; the total replacement of petrol driven cars by 2040, an end to civil nuclear power stations, an EU-wide taxation on the aviation industry and [...]

Offsetting damage to climate is no doubt a great way to postpone the real changes that need to be introduced across the developing world. The way that this is conducted in many cases has been widely criticised in terms of effectiveness, where some offset programs arguably do not have the intended impact.
On UK Channel 4 [...]

The second phase of carbon trading is coming under way for the period 2008-2012 introducing tougher allocations of carbon credit: most countries will be given 10% less credits than in the first phase of the ETS.
This is a relief since the over-allocation in the first phase, but countries and companies alike are already complaining.
The Czech [...]

From today’s G8 meetings in Germany, it seems the Bush administration is finally likely to conform to Europe’s aims on setting targets of 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 - although with Bush’s hesitation to agree on exact figures, they at least agree to create a significant reduction.
Furthermore the US is for the first [...]

We mentioned the forthcoming UK Government white paper which is expected to propose a large increase in the numbers of organizations required to reduce their carbon emissions through indirect monitoring and reduction of their energy usage. This is how the wider scheme is expected to operate.
The FT report of this white paper [...]