More Subsidies for Fossil Fuels in Recovery Plans

Despite the economic slow down, growing numbers of world leaders are calling for urgent action on climate change while many governments used their economic stimulus packages to increase subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

Global carbon market doubled in 2008, cut less CO2

The global market for carbon emissions trading doubled in value last year, but actual realised emissions cuts fell as the global economic slowdown dented clean energy financing, the World Bank said on Wednesday.

Rice For Nice Low-Price Ice

The fridge is one of your home’s biggest energy hogs. Better insulation can make refrigerators much more efficient. And a panel encasing a vacuum is one of the best insulators known. But vacuum-insulated panels are too pricy for widespread use.

India One of the Least Carbon Intensive Countries in the World

India’s stand that the current climate change negotiations under the auspices of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) are being skewed in favor of of the industrialized nations got another shot in the arm this week.

Britain’s Ideal: Green Homes

Aiming to drastically cut its emissions of planet-warming pollutants, Britain is telling its home builders to design a new generation of super-efficient houses that use only clean power and add no net carbon to the atmosphere.

Will Canada’s Tar Sands Destroy the Global Climate?

Further development of Alberta’s famous oil sands will be neither the climate disaster that activists fear nor the energy security panacea that proponents suggest it is, the Council on Foreign Relations concludes in a new report.

New Rules May Lastingly Trim Gasoline Use

The Obama administration plans to issue new national requirements for the emissions and mileage of cars and light trucks, according to my colleague John Broder.

EU urges Australia to make deeper carbon cuts

The European Union urged Australia on Monday to make deeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions than it has committed to so far, saying the success of climate change talks this year depended on tougher action from rich nations.

Report Weighs Fallout of Canada’s Oil Sands

In the tense debate between energy security and environmental sustainability, Canada’s vast oil sand reserves hold a special place.

Deep CO2 Cuts May Be Last Hope for Acid Oceans

UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 15 (IPS) – Ocean acidification offers the clearest evidence of dangers of climate change. And yet the indisputable fact that burning fossil fuels is slowly turning the oceans into an acid bath has been largely ignored by industrialised countries and their climate treaty negotiators, concluded delegates from 76 countries at the World Oceans Conference in Manado, Indonesia.