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UK to introduce reverse VAT tax rate for carbon emissions trading
Zero tax rate replaced by HM Revenue & Customs to check fraud with onus on the customer not supplier
US environment agency proposes rules to help address GHG emission
Clean Air Act permits will minimise emissions of businesses across America
BSI launches Kitemark scheme for carbon reduction verification
New standard to certify organisations' efforts at lowering emissions.
Volvo announces 'Emissions Equality' greener cars initiative
Carmaker addresses "false picture" created by sole focus on CO2 with new, wider emissions info
Securing Britain's energy
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warns Gordon Brown not to go ahead with a new generation of coal power plants, starting with Kingsnorth, and says our future must be low carbon
Climate change - are we doing enough?
Are plans to cut carbon emissions by 60 per cent enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change?
Nuclear fallout
The government’s commitment to nuclear power will undermine national and environmental security for decades
A new Kyoto?
At the Bali conference, Peter Hardstaff reflects on the differences between campaigning for and campaigning against
No election? Is it good or bad?
Following Gordon Brown's confirmation there will be no autumn poll Sian Berry reflects on the up and downsides to not having an election at the moment
Zac, are you serious?
On 13 September, Sian gave her reaction to the Tory Quality of Life group's report. Then we gave its co-author Zac Goldsmith, a right of reply. Here Sian answers back.
Zac responds to Sian Berry
Last week the Green Party's Sian Berry criticised the Tory Quality of life group report. Here Zac Goldsmith, who co-chaired the group, accuses her of a Labour-style attack.
It is not right, and it is not a right, to fly all the time
Cheap air travel is leading us to squander earth's limited natural energy resources. Alex Owen tells us to stop
Local lamb for the chop
Observations on trade
Seven reasons why your lightbulb matters
Lib Dem international development spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone explains why she thinks everyone can make a difference on the environment
Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale
Controlling climate change will require personal sacrifice, fairness and trust. Yet successive governments have insisted on the individual's right to choose. This large bird is coming home to roost
Exposed: Britain's dirty secret
The government has been disguising the quantity of greenhouse gases that we create with our flights to and from the UK.
Obviation not generation
We don’t need more energy – just more imagination, intelligence . . . and political courage
The trillion-tonne challenge
What should come after the end of the first round of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012? Fred Pearce makes a business case for idealism
We want greener transport
Tim Yeo, Tory environment spokesman, calls for a halt to airport runway expansion, and higher tax on polluting cars
Global warming: make the guilty pay
Countries and corporations that belch out carbon emissions and shun Kyoto might think again if they were taken to court
The interview
The interview
On Syria
GOP race so far
Mind your B-sides
Time to rethink
Who minds?
Alistair Darling
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Can the UK achieve it’s commitment to carbon reduction targets by 2020?
