Carbon traders setting up shop in Singapore

Friday - More companies trading in carbon offsets and those financing emissions reduction projects are setting up shop in Singapore.

Lomborg changes tune in new book

Friday - Climate change sceptic Bjørn Lomborg, once compared to Adolf Hitler by UN climate chief Rajendra Pachauri, will publish a book next month that calls climate change “one of the chief concerns facing the world today.”

Journals not court is place for scientific debate - experts

20 Aug 10 - The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) faces a legal challenge by climate sceptics group the Climate Science Coalition which is taking the Crown Research Institute to court over the accuracy of its climate data.

Tasman challenge: Cut emissions by 15 per cent

13 Aug 10 - Australia and New Zealand can cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 15 per cent by 2020 in economically beneficial ways, say business leaders at the 6th Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference in Sydney.

How Portugal gave itself an energy makeover

13 Aug 10 - Five years ago, Portugal pledged to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels and embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects.

South Africa mulls over carbon tax at source

6 Aug 10 - South Africa is considering a proposal to introduce a carbon tax at source, probably of about 100 rand per tonne, according to industry sources.

The Carbon Traders 1: Nigel Brunel, OMFinancial

30 Jul 10 - Nigel Brunel is not a typical greenie. In fact until recently, he would probably have been insulted to be called one. But then he discovered carbon, and started thinking about how putting a price on greenhouse gases could really change the world.

A nation run by cowards and thieves

30 Jul 10 - By Jeff Siegel. - Well, once again, politics have trumped progress.

We want emissions trading, say Aussies

30 Jul 10 - Most Australians are not pleased that they don’t have an emissions trading scheme.

Obama vows to fight on for climate bill

30 Jul 10 - United States President Barack Obama has pledged to fight on for a climate change bill, despite the collapse of US Senate legislation designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Senate failure dismays climate experts

30 Jul 10 - A global group of policy reserch experts is expressing dismay at the US Senate's inability to pass strong climate control law.

Canadian researchers hope to green the web

30 Jul 10 - Canadian researchers hope to stem the global IT industry's rampant output of greenhouse gas emissions by perfecting a way to host the Internet's content purely on green power.

Carbon quiet in NZ, dipping internationally

30 Jul 10 - Another very quiet week for the New Zealand carbon market, with emitters not prepared to push prices at this point, OMFinancial reports.

Gillard pledges 'people's assembly' on climate

23 Jul 10 - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will create a ''citizens' assembly'' of ''real Australians'' to investigate the science of climate change and consequences of emissions trading.

Has Australian cabinet hit on quick carbon fix?

16 Jul 10 - The Australian Government has agreed to a climate-change policy based on a series of measures, including a commitment to set an interim carbon price that it will introduce over the next two years,...

Climate bill would save US billions, Congress hears

9 Jul 10 - Congressional sponsors of the stalled US climate change bill received a boost this week from a finding by a nonpartisan office that the measure would reduce the federal deficit by $19 billion during...

ETS free credits wrong, says watchdog

2 Jul 10 - Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright is continuing her opposition to big-emitting companies being given free carbon credits by the taxpayer.

Obama optimistic on climate bill despite senate rifts

2 Jul 10 - US President Barack Obama spent 90 minutes trying to convince senators to move forward with climate change legislation yesterday … and came away optimistic that a climate bill can be passed in spite...

UK must take radical action, warns watchdog

2 Jul 10 - Britain needs to build twice as many wind farms every year, put more than a million electric cars on the road and insulate every home in the country in order to meet ambitious legally binding climate...

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