Donor countries have pledged a record $4.25bn over the next four years for the Global Environment Facility, the world’s largest public green fund that helps developing countries tackle climate change

The UN nuclear watchdog has said it is looking into a report that military-ruled Myanmar was aiming to develop nuclear weapons

The implications of the current global recession lay the foundation for another choice that we must make to begin addressing the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis, writes Didier Pineau, Chairman and CEO, Europlasma

Society faces a critical challenge: Increasingly expensive fossil fuel reserves, which so many individuals and firms rely on for their energy needs, will be exhausted in the foreseeable future. Combine this with the dangers and costs of global warming and rising carbon dioxide levels, and it’s clear that increased energy efficiency is an absolute must

Are Alberta’s oil sands Canada’s greatest buried energy treasure as Time Magazine once claimed? Or do they pose an environmental nightmare, despite their potential economic benefits? Professor Joseph Doucet from the University of Alberta tells Adrian Holliday, either way, difficult decisions look inevitable

With its harsh winters, Sweden has long been a model for energy-saving technologies. But now the little-known and remote far north of the country is leading the way in exporting its nation’s green-tinged intellectual property

The New Economy’s Hywel Jones speaks with Fluor’s Chairman & CEO Alan Boeckmann, Senior Group Presidents David Seaton and Steve Dobbs, and Power Business Group President David Dunning about the company’s strong track record and its commitment to sustainable development

The UN’s climate agency has for the first time detailed contingency options if the world cannot agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose present round expires in 2012 with no new deal in sight

Addressing climate change and moving toward a more sustainable environment have become every-day challenges for most of today’s society

For Russia, Iran’s first nuclear power plant is a project in which everybody wins – a statement some in Israel, the United States and elsewhere would vehemently dispute

More than 800,000 barrels of high-quality Caspian crude oil flow daily to the Mediterranean beneath a Georgian village, 42km from breakaway South Ossetia

Nuclear energy offers several advantages: It’s clean, powerful and relatively cheap