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Car industry supports CO2 based tax
Following a vote in the European Parliament on developing a more harmonised and CO2 based taxation of cars in the EU at the beginning of September, ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, shows clear sup...
UN Sec–Gen Calls for Ozone Protection
Efforts to protect the ozone layer are showing signs of progress, but much remains to be done to restore this life-saving part of the earth's atmosphere that filters out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays, Secretary-Gene...
British Supermarkets Fight It Out For Green Supremacy
Britain's National Consumer Council (NCC) recently ranked UK supermarket chains according to their environmental credentials. (Waitrose came top, Sainsbury's led the four largest chains.)
Sainsbury's in green packing push
Supermarket Sainsbury's is to sell more than 500 of its own-brand products in compostable packs instead of plastic as it seeks to cut packaging waste. It says the scheme, already trialled on some of its organic range, wi...
Rolling out the green carpet
Interface boss Ray Anderson has shown that environmental sustainability need not come at the expense of profits, writes Mark Tran.
Methane bubbles climate trouble
Thawing Siberian bogs are releasing more of the greenhouse gas methane than previously believed, according to new scientific research. Scientists from Russia and the US measured methane bubbling from a number of thawing...
Humans 'causing stronger storms'
Increases in hurricane intensity are down to humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, according to new analysis. Scientists calculate that two-thirds of the recent rise in sea temperatures, thought to fuel hurricanes, is dow...
MEPs frustrated with late carbon–trading plans
Speakers from all major political groups in the European Parliament attacked the Commission for being soft on Member States after a majority of EU countries missed a 30 June deadline to submit CO2 emissions trading plans...
Media attitudes to reporting climate change
Effective responses to climate change must include people in climate-vulnerable regions in the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies. The media in these regions can play an important role in communicating t...
Massive surge in disappearance of Arctic sea ice sparks global warning
Arctic meltdown is speeding up... sea ice is vanishing faster than ever before... polar bears face extinction... and America's top climate scientist warns we only have a decade to save the planet.