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

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