I had a chance to absorb some of the elements of Ontario’s Green Energy Act and, despite the many programs and policies that still need to flow from it over the coming months — assuming it passes, which is likely — I think it’s a progressive document. Most media outlets have ...

When I see someone throw rubbish out of a car window, I get very cross. If it’s a cigarette butt, I get extremely cross. If it’s anywhere near the bush, on a hot day, I go thermonuclear. It’s really not very pretty, and I have had to be talked down from following these people home ...

Developing countries have received less than 10% of the money promised by rich countries to help them adapt to global warming, an analysis by the Guardian has found. The failure is fostering deep distrust between rich and poor nations and is seriously undermining key negotiations on a global climate...

Civil servants at the Department for Transport (DfT) asked a top aviation lobby group for help to win the parliamentary battle over keeping aircraft emissions out of key climate change legislation, according to papers seen by the Guardian. The documents, leaked from industry-funded group Flying Matt...

Engineers on the Sleipner East platform in the North Sea can lay claim to a unique environmental honour. Each year for the past decade they have pumped a million tonnes of carbon dioxide into an old gas field below their rig, a helpful contribution to the easing of global warming. But there is more ...

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says he’s not prepared to tolerate NIMBYism regarding renewable-energy projects when community concerns go beyond health, safety and environmental concerns. In other words, those who oppose wind turbines, biomass facilities and solar farms “just because...

More than one in four homes in the UK will be offered a complete eco-makeover under ambitious plans expected to be announced this week to slash fuel bills and cut global warming pollution. The campaign is thought to involve giving 7m houses and flats a complete refit to improve insulation, and will ...

BAA is expected to fast-track a third runway at Heathrow after the government yesterday backed expanding the airport as soon as possible after 2015. The transport secretary, Geoff Hoon, recommended that the airport owner "brought forward" a planning application for the runway after he made the surpr...

I'm uneasy over the campaign against Heathrow's third runway even while I acknowledge that the explosion in air travel cannot continue unabated without a profound environmental impact. There is no doubt that any workable plan to contain the growth of global carbon emissions must prevent the doubling...

The climate change package details how European industries, energy generators, governments, and transport sectors are to effect a "triple 20" deal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, cutting energy consumption by 20% by the same deadline, and ensuring that ...