Are Alberta’s oil sands Canada’s greatest buried energy treasure as Time Magazine once claimed? Or do they pose an environmental nightmare, despite their potential economic benefits? Professor Joseph Doucet from the University of Alberta tells Adrian Holliday, either way, difficult decisions look inevitable

With its harsh winters, Sweden has long been a model for energy-saving technologies. But now the little-known and remote far north of the country is leading the way in exporting its nation’s green-tinged intellectual property

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 Dunning about the company’s strong track record and its commitment to sustainable development

The UN’s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight

Addressing climate change and moving toward a more sustainable environment have become every-day challenges for most of today’s society

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

More than 800,000 barrels of high-quality Caspian crude oil flow daily to the Mediterranean beneath a Georgian village, 42km from breakaway South Ossetia

Nuclear energy offers several advantages: It’s clean, powerful and relatively cheap

By Patrik Isaksson, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, who works at SCA’s Corporate Headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden

Companies like Climate Change Capital are encouraging investment in green initiatives, and establishing schemes which could be vital to our future

The energy landscape is characterised by several key drivers, the three main ones being growing energy demand, the need for sustainability and global pressure to cut CO2 emissions, writes Heike Onken, Siemens AG Energy Sector

Fifty-five nations accounting for almost 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions have set national goals for fighting climate change by a deadline in the “Copenhagen Accord”, the UN said recently