United Kingdom Climate Change Act related content 

The aviation industry is exploring everything from new fuels to radical designs in a bid to combat climate change. The debate over air travel and climate change is a fraught...

The financial crisis is an opportunity to develop an economic framework with long-term benefits for the environment. Looking back on last year's main topic of discussion –...

Former US vice-president says world may need to cut emissions by nearly 25% more than the EU is committed to doing. POZNAŃ, Poland | Al Gore called for more ambitious...

If the EU wants to succeed in its efforts to battle global wamring, it must work harder to bring China on board. The first round of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change ends...

By putting an emphasis on sustainable forestry, the EU can encourage developing countries to participate in the fight against climate change. The European Parliament is...

Financial unrest is leading some politicians and business to call for a re-think of the EU's environmental pledges. The political weather has changed dramatically since...

A climate-change committee fails to evolve. A working group in the European Parliament has been discussing possible reforms of the committees for the next parliament's term....

French pushing for measures in the face of European Commission opposition. Despite opposition from the European Commission, France, which holds the presidency of the Council...

Please find an excuse for my Mercedes. It's not really surprising but Karl-Heinz Florenz (pictured), the German centre-right MEP who drafted the temporary committee on...

European Parliament backs a report that calls for tougher environmental targets and for more research into biofuels. Current efforts to combat climate change must be...

Avril Doyle hails the extra certainty provided by the proposed revision of the EU's emissions trading rules, while Caroline Lucas argues that Europe needs to be more...

Although the ETS is one of the EU's most ambitious projects, it could also create conflict. The emissions trading scheme (ETS) is one of the EU's most eye-catching policy...

The EU's new member states will be allowed to continue increasing their greenhouse gas emissions, while the wealthiest countries will be expected to cut theirs, under plans...

Ministers from the world's major energy-consuming countries will next week (9-11 September) discuss a possible international climate-change agreement, ahead of United Nations...

The European Parliament's committee on climate change is aiming to build a global coalition of national parliaments to ensure the success of the Kyoto protocol and its...

Politicians congratulating themselves on ambitious climate change targets that were agreed at an EU summit meeting this month might do well to remember Napoleon. “Public...

MEPs are planning to set up a temporary committee to examine the problems of climate change and the necessary responses. The committee, which would work for a year, will...

A few weeks ago it looked as if Finland would be ending its EU presidency without keeping its headline environmental promise – a deal on REACH, the legislation to regulate...

Total greenhouse gas emissions in the EU15 decreased by a modest 1.7% between 1990 and 2003, according to a report from the European Environment Agency, published last week...

The Kyoto Protocol comes into force on 16 February amid increasing evidence that climate change is worse than everybody thought and that member states are failing to stick to...