Only three days into the job and Ed Davey’s first political challenge has arisen – a demand from the unreconstructed Tory back benches for a halt to onshore wind farm development. The Tories are taking aim at the subsidies onshore wind farm receive to enable them to compete with fossil fuel, claiming that they’re unaffordable

Hungarian villagers were scavenging for coal with their bare hands on Thursday (2 February) as a blast of Siberian air killed scores in Eastern Europe and looked set to keep its icy grip on the continent for days to come. More »

Connie Hedegaard, the EU's climate action commissioner, has rejected calls to introduce a price floor to sustain Europe's depressed carbon market, saying she does not want a "politically regulated system". In a wide-ranging interview with EurActiv, she also called on EU countries to roll back fossil fuel subsidies and shift them to renewable energies. More »

Sheffield Liberal Democrats were today exposed for trying to cut a Labour scheme to invest in tackling fuel poverty. As part of the Council's Housing Revenue Account Business Plan, Labour have outlined plans to prioritise investment in heating systems, which are important in tackling fuel poverty a problem faced by many tenants in the current climate of high energy prices and fuel bills. As a...

As political and societal will gathers to massively cut carbon emissions over the next years, the value of carbon-intensive oil and gas firms is likely to plummet, potentially leaving taxpayers with the burden for bailing them out, argues Matthew Ulterino. More »

Alan Whitehead, Labour MP for Southampton Test, has pressed Chris Huhne to reverse his decision to allow energy companies to substantially reduce the help they offer to make our homes more energy efficient. The Tory Government is cancelling Labour's Warm Front and CERT levies on energy companies, which have helped thousands of people at risk of fuel poverty in Southampton and the south to get...

France has added some more rocket fuel to Monday’s already volatile summit of EU leaders by pledging to introduce a 0.1pc tax on financial transactions in August. Oh to be a property agent in London these days. Brush up on the French lessons and wait for the stampede of Frogs into London to escape the

The former Massachusetts governor’s tax returns will further fuel the raging debate over the fairness and complexity of the US tax system

We have seen the government turning to pension funds as a source of capital to fuel the economic recovery through infrastructure investment. Combined with the agenda for 'responsible capitalism', it is clear that the way pension funds invest is no longer, "a minority sport", but a matter of acute national concern.

The huge reserves of coal, oil and gas held by companies listed in the City of London are "sub-prime" assets posing a systemic risk to economic stability, a high-profile coalition of investors, politicians and scientists has warned the Bank of England's governor, Mervyn King. More »