Companies like Climate Change Capital are encouraging investment in green initiatives, and establishing schemes which could be vital to our future

The energy landscape is characterised by several key drivers, the three main ones being growing energy demand, the need for sustainability and global pressure to cut CO2 emissions, writes Heike Onken, Siemens AG Energy Sector

Fifty-five nations accounting for almost 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions have set national goals for fighting climate change by a deadline in the “Copenhagen Accord”, the UN said recently

The allure of $30bn in climate aid for poor nations holds the key to helping restore confidence in UN talks on fighting global warming and stopping them from unravelling

A Nigerian court has ordered Norway’s Statoil to deposit its share of income from a big offshore oilfield until a dispute is resolved with a local consultant who says he has not been paid

Worries over energy security will drive India’s goal to slow the growth of its carbon emissions, according to the head of a government panel tasked with developing the country’s low-carbon strategy

Weak global carbon prices will probably continue into next year before recovering, clean-energy investors said on Tuesday at a carbon meeting in India, adding that they remained confident about the market in the longer term

Recent European history teems with examples of durable coalition governments that tackled crises head on, giving Britain’s new Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron reason to hope he can prove sceptics wrong

A grand vision of a global carbon market to limit greenhouse gas emissions may be decades off as US senators unveiled a climate bill facing tough Republican opposition

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