Lobbyists for US cap and trade face daunting task
The US Senate's stalled climate bill is getting a last big push from an unlikely ally - a group of energy companies who say a carbon market will help them get financing for the next generation of energy productionBut intensive lobbying by these climate bill proponents - including heavyweights like Duke Energy, Shell Oil Co and General Electric Co - may not be enough to counter powerful opposition and get a bil...
Seeing REDD
Accounting for more than half of the world's standing forest and 55 percent of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions through its destruction, the Amazon is both a villain and a victim of climate change. By Stuart Grudgings.The boat plows on through the brackish green river, taking Jose de Oliveira Quadro on a journey that may have been futile a few years ago.
Strangers have been fishing in his village’s ...
Chevron fights potentially historic damages case
24/08/2010
A run-down court building that also houses the local casino in this Amazon jungle town is the unlikely venue for the largest environmental damages lawsuit ever tried...
Bushehr start-up a big moment for Moscow
23/08/2010
For Russia, Iran's first nuclear power plant is a project in which everybody wins - a statement some in Israel, the United States and elsewhere would vehemently dispute...
Big bets on US oil bonanza after shale gas boom
23/08/2010
As the US shale gas revolution enters its third year, companies are making big bets to try to recreate that success with the billions of barrels of oil locked in the sedimentary ro...
Oil turns focus back to tradition
19/07/2010 | Tom Bergin
While common sense might suggest the biggest oil companies should concentrate on the biggest undeveloped fields, Total's focus on the heavily tapped North Sea reflects a broader tr...
Leading the charge
16/07/2010
Society faces a critical challenge: Increasingly expensive fossil fuel reserves, which so many individuals and firms rely on for their energy needs, will be exhausted in the forese...
Sanctions tighten pressure on Iran's oil industry
14/07/2010
A new round of US and European sanctions targets Iran's dilapidated oil sector from top to bottom, making it even more difficult to maintain output capacity and domestic supplies o...
Australia on track to meet Kyoto target
27/05/2010
Australia is on track to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target under the UN's Kyoto Protocol climate pact in part because of the global economic downturn, the government says...
Scientists examine causes for lull in warming
25/02/2010
Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of global warming, if they are to persuade an increasin...
US stands out for climate-change skepticism
25/02/2010
Many Americans are skeptical about global warming and that makes it harder to get a bill through Congress...
US solar thermal firm in deal for China power project
11/01/2010
US solar thermal power company eSolar, whose investors include Google Inc, said it has reached a deal with a Chinese power equipment maker to build a 2,000 MW solar thermal power p...
French nuclear deals need bespoke flavour
06/01/2010 | Marie Maitre and Nina Sovich
France could miss out on more multi-billion dollar deals to build new nuclear power plants unless it changes its current nuclear export strategy and adapts its technological offer ...
Crunch time for the planet
21/12/2009
Rich nations have to do more – a lot more – to slash their CO2 output. CCS technology can help, says Stan Dessens, chairman of the National Taskforce CCS in The Netherlands, but we...
A hub for energy
21/08/2009
Niedersachsen, the German state up north, with Hanover as its capital, is the state of wind energy: 5,102 wind turbines producing more than 6,000 megawatts are currently rotating t...
Taking electric cars mainstream
21/08/2009 | Joan Bryna Michelson
Fundamental to the success of combating global climate change and reducing dependence on oil is changing each person's behavior. This includes moving a critical mass of people from...
Waste not want not
21/08/2009 | Niel Bowerman and Radhika Viswanathan
The generation of electricity from WtE plants is often cited as an environmentally friendly and effective source of renewable energy that reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions...
An inseparable pair
21/08/2009
Water and energy are critical to the world's expanding population, but what often is overlooked is that these resources are interdependent and must be addressed together. We cannot...
A necessary technology
21/08/2009
New CCS technology can now pipe carbon dioxide from coal and gas power stations to underground storage reservoirs. Pioneers like Norway, the Netherlands and the UK are already trai...
Cracks in the market
20/08/2009 | Gerard Wynn and Sunanda Creagh
It could save the rainforests of Borneo, slow climate change and the international community backs it. But a plan to pay tropical countries not to chop down trees risks being discr...
Taking on the challenge
21/08/2009 | Francois Joubert, Head of Corporate Development at EDF Tradi
Addressing climate change and moving toward a more sustainable environment have become every-day challenges for most of today's society...
A dim view
21/08/2009 | Ingrid Melander
Red tape, a lack of political will and local opposition have cramped the development of an otherwise promising renewable energy market in Greece, whose climate is endowed with plen...
A global effort
21/08/2009
Steps by the Obama administration to recognise the harmful impact of industrial emissions on the planet will radically affect the energy industry...
Eye on the future
21/08/2009
Through one of the most severe global recessions in a generation, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation continues to invest billions in finding and developing new sources of energy for ou...
Wast(ing) water
21/08/2009
Much of what we flush away can be converted into valuable resources, write Petter D. Jenssen and Ingrid Nyborg of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences...
Water worries cloud future
01/06/2009
With climate change concerns mounting and drought becoming more of a problem in many areas, the water-intensive nature of creating ethanol also is a growing concern. By Carey Gilla...
Our energy future
01/06/2009
The New Economy's Hywel Jones speaks with Fluor's Chairman & CEO Alan Boeckmann, Senior Group Presidents David Seaton and Steve Dobbs, and Power Business Group President David ...
Developing solutions
01/06/2009
Huw Thomas and Nick Williamson of Ashurst LLP take us through the ups and downs of small to medium sized oil and gas companies and the effects on them of the credit crunch...
Smoke and mirrors?
19/11/2008 | Alister Doyle
New geo-engineering proposals have to overcome wide criticism that they are fanciful and could have unforeseen side effects...
Leading the industry
18/11/2008
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a very important technology for worldwide climate mitigation...
It won't cost the Earth to save the planet
11/06/2007 | Sophy Bristow
The earth's temperature is rising. Climate change affects every surface of the world; immediate action must be taken across all sectors to reduce the scale of the problem, before i...
Afghanistan and America's troubled backyard
09/08/2010 | Bernd Debusmann
The US is spending around $6.5bn a month on the war in faraway Afghanistan, where a large part of it...
Is immigration a desert mirage for the GOP?
27/07/2010
US Republican state Senator Russell Pearce, a long-time fixture in Arizona politics but until recent...
UN lists Kyoto plan B options if no climate deal
21/07/2010
The UN's climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agre...
Legalising pot may kill buzz in California enclave
19/07/2010 | Alexandria Sage
Below the perpetual fog that shrouds the redwood groves, green hills and rocky coastline of remote H...
