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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting. "I've got an idea about how we can actally move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this," Brown told the BBC, when asked what c...

2009 is a crucial year for the climate change agenda which was hoped to culminate in a new international climate deal being signed in Copenhagen this December. The Copenhagen Communiqué is a short, punchy statement that draws on some of the key thinking on climate policy that has emerged from the international business community over the past t...

Faster and fairer planning decisions on new energy infrastructure were a step closer today as Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband laid before Parliament draft texts setting out the national need for a low carbon secure energy mix. He also set out an ambitious new policy for the transition to clean coal. The draft National Policy Statements ...

Sir Terry Leahy(CEO of Tesco Plc) talked about Copenhagen Summit at SCI Conference. Here you can find his speech. ...

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency today launched a comprehensive new European pollutant release and transfer register E-PRTR. The register contains information about the quantity and location of pollutants released to air, water and land by industrial facilities throughout Europe. It includes annual data for 91 substances ...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a document entitled ?Technology Roadmap: Carbon Capture and Storage,? as part of a series of publications to be produced at the behest of the G8 to advance innovative energy technologies. After outlining the rationale for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), which revolves primarily around lowering co...

'A long decade ago economic growth was the reigning fashion of political economy. ? [Since then] the climate of opinion has changed dramatically. Disillusioned critics indict both economic science and economic policy for blind obeisance to aggregate material "progress", and for neglect of its costly side effects.' Nordhaus, W.D. and Tobin, J., 'Is ...