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Call follows UN decision. Green campaigners have written to environment ministers calling for the EU to exclude coal projects from qualifying for offsetting carbon credits...

Turbulent times for the European emissions trading scheme. The European emissions trading scheme (ETS), the flagship of the EU's efforts to curb climate change, was six...

A new and realistic approach to climate talks is required. It is fair to say that, because of the lack of progress made at Copenhagen last year and a continuing lack of US...

The new diplomatic service might make Europe more unified, but only a new diplomacy can make it an environmental superpower. Unity is often said to be the prerequisite for...

UN scheme under fire for lack of effectiveness, while Commission seeks to protect emissions scheme. Pollution trading was not invented in Europe, but it has become as much...

Member states want to strengthen opt-outs, but industry groups warn of disruption to the market. A reform to the European Union's carbon trading system hangs in the balance...

An EU-wide carbon tax is back on the agenda, but the Union must do more to realise its green ambitions. In Brussels no idea ever truly dies. Policy proposals linger in desk...

New commission set to present draft legislation on carbon tax next month. Algirdas Šemeta, the new European commissioner for taxation, is planning to propose a minimum rate...

Carbon pricing cannot do the whole job of climate policy. The best that can be said of the Copenhagen Accord is that it might represent a step forward for US climate policy...

Only Poland voted against a proposal from the European Commission on the rules for funding pilot projects. The European Union's national governments have agreed rules on...

The EU must tell the UN by 31 January how far it will reduce carbon-dioxide emissions over the next decade. Gordon Moffat of Eurofer argues that it should stick with its...

The food services industry has an appalling record on sustainability; there is much it could do. Michael Izza of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales...

It may be a marginal contributor to climate change, but Africa could be a major contributor to efforts to curb climate change. After a long series of preparatory meetings,...

A Nobel prize-winner explains how we can escape the trap created by the need to curb emissions reduction, to reduce poverty and to be fair. There are many problems with...

EU leaders make compromise on surplus carbon credits ahead of UN climate summit. Surplus carbon credits, or ‘hot air', should not be allowed “to affect the integrity”...

‘Hot air' threat to Copenhagen agreement. In Nikolai Gogol's best-known novel, an itinerant swindler called Chichikov lands on a get-rich-quick scheme, buying up “dead...

EU leaders enter summit divided on aid to help developing countries adapt to climate change and on tactics in UN talks. Europe's much-vaunted claim to ‘lead the world' in...

The Copenhagen talks could have an effect on carbon trading and the Clean Development Mechanism. One way to judge whether Copenhagen is a success for the environment might...

Ministers agree on long-term goal to reduce emissions by 80%-90%, but remain divided on carbon credits. EU environment ministers today agreed that the EU should slash...

The European Commission and member states need to work together to bring stability and integrity to the carbon market. There was some consternation among climate change...