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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Canada is not being singled out for its production of oil from tar-sands. Production of oil from tar sands results in the emission of more greenhouse gases than from most...

Agreement on an updated binding deal for climate change will be very tricky. The Kyoto protocol is showing its age – and has been for years. In 1990, the year used as the...

Rich countries have pledged vast sums to help the world's poor deal with the effects of climate change, but the talk is often not backed up with action. The world's poorest...

It is now clear that the Arctic is losing ice cover at an accelerating rate. Largely unnoticed, a silent drama has been unfolding over the past weeks in the Arctic. The...

EU wants legally binding deal to succeed Kyoto; presidency wants agreed stance ahead of Durban. The EU's environment ministers are to discuss when they meet in Luxembourg...

To create green economies, businesses need real commitments from governments. Some political problems can be solved overnight; others take years to tackle. But, in the...

Mobility needs must be balanced with efficiency gains. The transport sector, which accounts for 32% of all final energy consumption in the EU, is seen as having the second...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose last year at the fastest rate since 1969, according to the 2011 edition of BP's statistical review of world energy....

The head of the European Chemical Industry Council sets out the case for the EU to stick to its current emissions-reduction plan. Europe set itself the bold target of...

Commission seeks savings targets amid concern that proposals do not go far enough. Power companies could be fined for failing to help customers cut back energy use,...

Without an improved performance on efficiency, the EU is in no position to complain about being shut off from access to raw materials. “Waste not, want not”, is a...

The mobilisation of national-level low-carbon projects and policies is extraordinary. The last two years have been a rollercoaster ride in respect to securing a new global...

Commissioner vows to push for climate deal and praises ‘balanced' agreement at Cancún. Europe must keep up the pressure in 2011 for a strong global deal on climate...