More than 500 businesses joined Japan’s voluntary emissions trading scheme within two months of its launch, the Japanese government said before the Christmas holidays.
Tokyo pointed to power utilities’ voluntary pledge to cut their carbon by …

The U.S. Congress is unlikely to tackle climate change this year, despite repeatedly including climate change among the challenges that require urgent attention, the Wall Street Journal reported on one of its blogs.
House speaker Nanci …

A professional association of senior executives responsible for climate change and energy is to launch in the U.S. within the next year, Carbon Finance reported on January 7.
Provisionally called the Association of Corporate Climate Change …