The province has named Paul Taylor as Nova Scotia's alternate member of the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board.

The province wants to make it easier for renewable electricity projects to get built in Nova Scotia.

RGGI benchmark allowances leveled off in the low $2.30 range as volumes remained sluggish.

The debate around CDM reform and market mechanisms moved slowly behind closed doors this week.

The World Bank has received just 13 per cent of the money pledged to its carbon funds.

EU carbon continued to trade sideways on Thursday amid thin volume.

UN climate talks have restored a clause investors say is needed to finance avoided deforestation.

Taxing financial transactions could pay for the global climate change fund, Oxfam suggested today.

Industry groups welcomed the release of a bill creating a domestic offset programme in the US.

Mounting opposition may scupper plans for an EU-wide auction platform for third-phase allowances.

Hopes for a global legally-binding climate treaty in Copenhagen have all but disappeared.

Democrats voted the Kerry-Boxer bill out of committee on Thursday morning.

Rich and poor divisions are dimming hopes of a new climate pact, a South African official said.

U.S. clean energy legislation could help create 850,000 manufacturing jobs around the country, a report from a group representing business and environmental interests said on Wednesday.

Up to $30.6 million in economic stimulus funds will be used to finance seven hydroelectric projects nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The additional funding means Voith Hydro, a manufacturer of hydroelectric turbines, will be able to retain

As the last round of "intersessional" climate talks before Copenhagen opened today in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United States. Without American numbers on mitigation

A new study reported by the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and the University of Rochester sheds light on how the continents move, and oceans are created. In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia.

President Lyndon Johnson and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made stark warnings about global warming decades ago, but convincing evidence for action only amassed in recent years, experts say. A 190-nation U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December is due to

California-based company Cereplast has revealed that it is developing breakthrough technology to transform algae into bioplastics, and predicts that it could replace 50% or more of the petroleum content used in traditional plastic resins.

Ice cores are important tools to identify Earth's past climate. They enable us to peer back in time to identify species of insects trapped in ice as well as isotopes oxygen and dust particles that were deposited at various time