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It will cost every household in the UK at least £2,000 to comply with the new European Union target of producing 15 per cent of all energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to a report commissioned by the government.

Climate Hysteria Hits Europeans Hard

Jim Rogers looked a bit uncomfortable sitting on a stage in Brussels, amid a small gaggle of climate-change activists.

Rogers is chairman of Duke Energy, a utility that provides power to customers in five Southern and Midwestern states. And by Rogers' own admission, "of all the companies in the United States, we are the third-largest emitter of CO{-2}" – adding with a chuckle, "I say that not to brag."

Scientists and officials from across the world meet in Thailand this week for the first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact by the end of 2009.

A profoundly ill-conceived decision by the European Union leaders on March 14 could pave the way for a global trade war over climate policy. The decision opens up the possibility for the EU to impose trade barriers on countries with a less ambitious climate agenda than the EU. The risk of “carbon leakage” can be allowed to trigger compensatory tariffs on products imported from countries outside of the EU's emission trading system. Sadly, the decision satisfies a cynical alliance of environmentalists and Europe's energy intensive industry.

The West's next weapon in the fight against global warming may be a carbon tariff on imports from the developing world, a strategy that could have a profound impact on the global economy, a new report argues.

Pepsi is the newest corporation to “go green,” earning media praise while promising to “do well by doing good.” But environmentalism for profit requires the tricky game of lobbying, which makes some PepsiCo investors worried that the corporation is in over its head.

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, while other Republicans were talking about taxes, the economy or immigration, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was talking about the environment.

"I will clean up the planet," he told a group of Concord voters. "I will make global warming a priority."

It was derided, feared and dying – but now it promises to return stronger than ever

A union-sponsored conference on the future of the nuclear industry might once have attracted a few dedicated insiders and PR managers, perhaps to one of the miserably utilitarian buildings around Sellafield.

A two-day bilateral summit is to culminate today (27 March) with the signing of a new accord that will see France help the UK develop a new generation of nuclear power stations.