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 [...]

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 [...]

The British Government has been criticized by its own National Audit Office for using two different systems for measuring carbon emissions, according to The Guardian. Joined-up government indeed!
“Britain’s climate change emissions may be 12% higher than officially stated, according to a National Audit Office investigation which has strongly criticised the government for using two [...]

The first annual budget statement of British chancellor Alistair Darling is “unlikely to have much impact on emissions”, according to Fiona Harvey, the FT’s environmental correspondent.
“But the measures outlined in his speech fell short of radical change and are unlikely to have much impact on emissions.
According to KPMG, the measures announced on [...]