As some of you may know from my previous postings, one of my responsibilities in Government is the Building Regulations. So far, so dull, right? On the face of it, you might be forgiven for thinking so, but the building regulations offer a number of key tools and levers to tackle the carbon emissions produced

Regulating carbon emissions does not drive industries abroad, a report says. Its findings say the European Union's emissions trading scheme would only result in businesses accounting for about 2 per cent of emissions moving their production overseas

Britain will cut carbon emissions by a third in the next 12 years as more than £1 billion is invested in offshore wind farms carbon capture schemes and green technology.

China pledged it would cut its carbon intensity, the measure of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP, by 40 per cent to 45 per cent compared to 2005 levels. Hurrah! A deadlock over carbon dioxide emissions targets has developed, with the United States offering only a 17

Efforts to curb carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol have not done enough to stop emissions increasing in industrialised nations and the developing world alike, according to the Global Carbon Project.

Barack Obama's administration on Friday took its first concrete step towards regulating greenhouse gas emissions by declaring carbon dioxide a danger to human health

British Airways will be charged the most of any airline when carriers around the world are brought into the European Union's carbon emissions trading scheme next year

The government has exceeded its target to reduce its carbon emissions, Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has told the Commons.

Just what the global economy didn't need is a new EU tax on airlines for carbon emissions! About a week ago the topic of the EU carbon market and the European Union Emission Trading Scheme was discussed at The Political Commentator. The eight critical questions that needed to be asked to global warming proponents were laid out and the new record low for EU carbon prices was discussed. New EU ...

Over the last few weeks, despite all the carbon claptrap, the UK Government, aided and abetted by the wetter "blue-green" Tories, has announced a massive acceleration in carbon emissions. As Humpty Dumpty says