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Carbon rationing on the agenda says environment chief
Ecologist
9th November, 2009
Personal allowances would allow equitable use of carbon says the head of the Environment Agency more...Carbon trading is a dangerous obsession, says report
Ecologist
November 5th, 2009
Carbon trading schemes are allowing speculators to grow rich but are not delivering the emissions cuts promised, says Friends of the Earth more...Pricing the tonne of carbon that tips us into climate catastrophe
Janine Morley
4th November, 2009
In this brilliant winning entry of the Ecologist/New Economics Foundation essay competition, Janine Morley imagines what it would be like to buy that fateful tonne of carbon from a telephone broker... more...Carbon markets not working, says Deutsche Bank
Ecologist
2nd November, 2009
Carbon markets are not working and UK and US government policy is not encouraging investment in renewable energy, says a leading bank more...Carbon rationing may be needed by 2012, says IPPR
Ecologist
9th September, 2009
Although unpopular and expensive, personal carbon trading may be the next step in tackling climate change more...Personal carbon trading: the next step in tackling carbon emissions?
Tom Levitt
3rd September, 2009
A report published by the IPPR next week will say personal carbon trading may be the next step in tackling climate change more...Copenhagen and the carbon conundrum
Felicia Jackson
10th August, 2009
It's too late to create an entirely new global climate framework, argues Felicia Jackson. We need to put a price on carbon to reflect its true cost, and Copenhagen, while flawed, is our best hope more...Europe's failing carbon emissions trading system
Ecologist
21st July, 2009
Europe's carbon trading scheme is making big windfall profits for industry but not reducing carbon emissions a new report says more...The power of sustainable thinking
Bob Doppelt
20th February, 2009
From carbon trading to embodied emissions, our difficulties would be greatly reduced if we changed the way we perceive our own beliefs, says Bob Doppelt more...Personal Carbon Allowance: emission impossible?
Jamie Andrews
20th June, 2008
The Government has backtracked on radical plans for personal carbon trading schemes, reports Jamie Andrews – taking accountability for what we emit is the only way to go. more...Carbon Trading and the limits of free-market logic
Kevin Smith
3rd October, 2007
Carbon trading, its backers claim, brings emissions reductions and supports sustainable development in the global south. But, argues Kevin Smith, it may do neither, and is harming efforts to create a low-carbon economy. more...New carbon trading scheme aims to preserve forests
News
4th July, 2007
A new U.N. led scheme called "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation" (RED) is due to be announced later this year that aims to make it rewarding for countries to preserve their forests rather than cut them down.more...
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1 billion homeless by 2050, says Christian Aid
News
14th May, 2007
One billion people could have been forced out of their homes by 2050 as a result of the pressures of climate change, a new report by development charity Christian Aid says. more...Fairer Distribution of Common Resources: the pros and cons of carbon trading
James Robertson
22nd March, 2007
'A common price for carbon' has become the soundbite of the forward-looking 'green' politician. It pleases everyone, not least business, which can plan ahead by looking at the carbon 'market'. But is it the best way to proceed? more...Blair: 'no' to carbon quotas; 'yes' to flying and driving
News
6th February, 2007
Tony Blair yesterday reiterated his belief that "you will not get people to give up the motor car or cheap air travel," and that he would 'stop short' of introducing carbon quotas. more...Carbon Trading Scam Exposed
news
18th January, 2007
Collusion between UK carbon trading firms and Chinese factories is allowing them to make big profits without any significant reduction in carbon emissions.more...
Making preservation pay
Oliver Tickell
18th January, 2007
The market can solve climate change and tackle world debt if we start to sell emissions right more...Government refuses to create clean technology fund
News
30th November, 1999
The Treasury signalled yesterday that money raised from the sale of carbon credits will not go into a clean technology fund as the EC had requested but instead be diverted to general treasury funds. more...