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Reducing greenhouse gases is even better for public health than a European Commission study suggests. The European Commission this week published a staff working paper that...

India has launched a series of measures to reduce its emissions, but there is a long way to go. It has been said that the idea of moderating consumption should come naturally...

India has been an important player in global climate talks, but lost its way in Durban last year. India has been considered a skilled negotiatior in international climate...

British parliamentarians fear businesses could relocate to other countries. The EU's emissions trading scheme (ETS) urgently needs a short-term solution to the low carbon...

Commission report to support higher carbon emission reduction targets for 2020. A report to be issued by the European Commission in the coming weeks will bolster the case of...

Divisions over energy efficiency in the Parliament are overstated. You wrote recently that “MEPs are divided over how far compulsion should play a role in achieving EU...

Power plants burning harvested wood can pack a massive carbon footprint. If a tree falls in the forest, do carbon regulators hear it fall and adjust their accounts? The sad...

Climate negotiators could take a leaf out of the global postal sector's book. The two weeks of tortuous negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

EU has agreed to reduce sulphur emissions but Sweden and Finland say their shipping will be put at a disadvantage. There is growing opposition among member states to the...

When the EU moves, others follow, writes the European Commissioner for climate action on the breakthrough deal struck at the Durban summit on climate change. At the Durban...

Connie Hedegaard's risk in Durban was redemption for the EU after its embarrassing failure at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Connie Hedegaard, the European...

Agreement in Durban on a roadmap to a future global treaty will see Europe continue a second period of binding emissions cuts, but Green groups say the deal is...

Lower fuel costs will mean a spending cut in the long run European households will have to spend more on energy and energy-related products in order to meet an EU goal of...

Climate change deal includes all major emitters. The world's largest economies have agreed on a roadmap towards a legally-binding deal by 2015 to to cut greenhouse-gas...

South Africa and Brazil are now prepared to sign up to a roadmap, but other major countries are holding out. The EU has made a final appeal to large economies to sign up to a...

US state defends its environmental standards. California's environmental protection agency has written to the European Commission and EU member states rejecting claims from...

Little prospect of a deal at Durban conference. The mood darkened at the  climate-change summit in Durban, South Africa, yesterday (7 December) as negotiators failed to...

Economic and environmental recovery must go hand in hand – and we need to act now, writes a leading European businessman. Given the fragility of the economic recovery and...

There are only two paths to choose between at Durban. Your recent report on climate change highlighted the debate in the EU about an extension of the Kyoto Protocol at the UN...

EU seeks to limit the emissions from cars. Lower emissions from cars may be achieved from improvements that cost little or nothing, a study conducted for the European...