After having embraced carbon trading to fight climate change, the European Commission is now eyeing an EU-wide trading scheme for sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) to improve air quality.

Voting in the elections for the European Parliament is taking place today in:Czech Republic (*)Ireland(*) Voting continues tomorrow in the Czech Republic.Read about voting in the Czech Republic here. Some facts about the Czech Republic are in the European Parliament website here. Thse Euronews website has updates about the voting in the Czech Republic here.The Irish Times carries a report about

CLIMATE CAMP 2009: CARBON TRADING AND ACTION PLANNING WEEKEND LONDON, 21/22 MARCH Everything you were gagging to know about carbon trading, and how we can put this new-found knowledge into practice at the G20 and beyond! Day 1 Workshops and discussions on the problems with carbon trading, with speakers from the Cornerhouse, FERN, Carbon Trade Watch and the World Development

The presidency of the EU is about to be Czech, and there is fear that President Vaclav Klaus will embarrass the world's biggest trading bloc.

German prosecutors said on Wednesday (28 April) they had searched more than 230 sites in a probe based on suspicions of tax evasion in the trading of European Union carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rights certificates.

The former City minister said that high-frequency trading also known as black box trading had been a “contributing factor” in the harsh swings which have led to more than £300bn being wiped off the value of British shares since the beginning of July. He wants both the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the

High-frequency trading and other computer-generated trading of financial products will be investigated by government scientists in an effort to understand the risks and potential benefits, the Treasury said

EU emissions trading system faces its longest disruption as authorities suspend trading activities to combat cyber-thieves

The government is changing the name and putting off for a year its tricky emissions trading scheme.

Hank Paulson's plan to federalise the bad loans currently poisoning Bank's balance sheets is on a knife-edge. If it falls, we could have the worst day's trading since 1987, or if it is finally approved, we could have the best day's trading since urm... last Friday. Every crisis has a cause rooted in the economy (except black monday, which was caused by black-box trading overwhelming markets). This...