“Growing first and cleaning up later” is no longer an option for developing nations, the UN Development Program (UNDP) argues in its new Asia-Pacific Human Development Report, as reported by The Australian today.
The 2012 report, focused on …

The state of California and province of Quebec moved to knit together their fledgling carbon markets yesterday as California proposed a new regulation allowing cross-border trading of the permits that industries must acquire to cover their …

Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne says the Greens will not accept any change in the carbon tax no matter who wins Australia’s next Federal election.
Speaking to Tony Jones in Lateline yesterday, she also tried to shift Jones …

Natural resources such as farmland, biodiversity and forests should come with a price tag in order to encourage governments to make their economic growth plans more environmentally sustainable, the World Bank says in a new report.

In ”Inclusive Green …

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s ”pledge in blood” to repeal the Labor party’s legislated price on carbon would be very difficult to achieve, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
”Well, we tried roll-back on the GST; it …

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator today published an online database with the names of 248 of the 500 companies that will face an A$23 tax on their CO2 emissions from July 1 this year.

Among the highest polluters are BHP …

South Korea yesterday approved an emissions trading scheme, making it the latest in a number of countries to enact stringent climate legislation.

Of the 151 lawmakers who voted, 148 approved the scheme, underscoring bipartisan support for …

A new US Senate bill supporting clean energy would cut coal-fired generation by 54 per cent and slash greenhouse gas emissions 20 per cent under 2005 levels by 2035, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The energy department’s statistics arm …

Rio de Janeiro’s environmental commodity exchange, BVRio, opened today registration for participants interested in trading forest offset credits that landowners can use to comply with Brazil’s forest legislation.

The exchange will enable Brazilian landowners that face harsh …

Australia is on track to meet its Kyoto Protocol target of limiting growth in carbon pollution, according to data released today by the National Greenhouse Accounts.
National emissions rose by 0.6 per cent to 546 million tonnes over …