There’s no shortage of references these days in corporate and government reports to earnest, new steps to fight climate change. Often they promise to make carbon emissions cuts equivalent to taking millions of cars off the road…
For example, take Europe’s fourth biggest single source of carbon emissions, Britain’s Drax coal plant. It said in March that as [...]

“Biochar” backlash questions carbon burial benefits of ploughing charred plants into the soil

Polish wolf expert frets that global warming could hurt the predators, already hunted to the brink

What hope for U.N. climate talks in Poznan?

Take more responsibility for your personal carbon footprint.
Fly less.
Use video link-ups, instead of flying to conferences in exotic places.
Sound familiar?
All advice you can expect from many governments on how we should all roll up our sleeves in the fight against climate change.
But over the next two weeks some 10,000 delegates including representatives from 186 governments, [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just presented its summary report on how bad climate change is.
There’s one inconsistency in there which doesn’t undermine for me the key IPCC message — that climate change is a serious threat towards which mankind is hurtling.
But it has left me with a feeling that in one [...]

Ever fancied escaping the rat-race, and waking up instead to the sound of bird song over a steaming mug of home-made coffee?
According to author Nick Rosen, that’s now becoming possible.
It’s down to a combination of weakening restrictions on house-building and the falling cost of installing off-grid electricity like wind and solar power, says Rosen, author [...]

At a time of record $88 oil prices you’d imagine that a business sector founded on supplying an alternative to diesel and gasoline is well-placed. Not so.
The criticism has been building for some time, but I think it’s safe to say the global biofuel industry is now in deep trouble.

The problem for the industry is [...]

The carbon market has been attracting headlines recently on Reuters for the massive profits some speculators and polluters are making from these emerging schemes.
These markets are meant to help fight climate change by putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions. But are these profits helping drive cuts in those gases? I would argue that often the [...]

Who wants to offset their flight? Or, for that matter, say they plan to go carbon neutral, joining the likes of Costa Rica, Norway, Google and Yahoo?
Voluntary carbon offsetting involves paying someone to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases, so that you can go ahead and take that flight, car journey or whatever, but not [...]