On April 1st, take aim at your local Fossil Fool We are living through both alarming and amazing times: financial systems are creaking, climate change is being felt around the world, and the peak in fossil fuels fast approaches. Cracks are widening daily throughout the fossil fuel empire, and change is coming whether we like it or not.

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has launched a section to "help create the conditions for UK business success through key energy and climate change policies". Lord Mandelson has set up an "energy and climate change unit" to lobby Ed Miliband's new energy and climate change department on behalf of business. Energy insiders said the move was further evidence of the pee...

Today the Labour Party has launched a new climate change pledge calling for the Government to take action to tackle climate change, ahead of the UN conference in Durban later this month.

We often hear some politician in the Government somewhere telling us how climate change is "one of the biggest issues to face our generation" - or words to that affect). Funny then that the Department of Energy and Climate Change seems to do so little to inform the public of this. The website is virtually empty and its not been updated for over a month. The "What's new" section was last modified o...

Community enterprises, with their roots in co-operatives and credit unions, are now emerging as powerful models to combat climate change. Ministers take note... December is a landmark month for climate change action, triggering the start of Britain’s response to reducing carbon emissions. This week, the newly formed Climate Change Committee is publishing recommendations for the first of three car...

EU policymakers are increasingly touting the practical benefits, particularly for business, rather than moral responsibility or survival of humanity, of climate change

To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on

Barack Obama will make a renewed push to spur the US Senate into action on climate change, saying the BP oil spill underlines the urgency for the country to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels

A few faked email stats and suddenly the entire edifice of climate change is in the balance. There's no doubt that the revelation of less than pure scientific method being used by the prominent climate change boffins at the University of East Anglia has given a new lease of life to the climate change deniers, or climo-sceptics. But, as we get ready to see our leaders parading their concern at the ...

Business expressed concern at Gordon Brown's signal of a potentially dramatic rise in climate change targets, but insisted it was 'quite comfortable' with the rest of a speech welcomed by the unions as a lurch to the left