MEPs said the EU must come up with concrete proposals before the UN summit on climate change in Durban at the end of the year. In a discussion, Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard said, "Durban is an important opportunity to progress, but it's not the end of the road"

Britons’ love of electrical appliances and gadgets could see the UK miss its carbon emission reduction targets for domestic appliance electricity use by as much as seven million tonnes.That is the stark finding of a new report by the Energy Saving Trust, the independent body set up to help householders reduce their energy bills and combat climate change

The Ethical Investment Association, the UK’s leading green and ethical investment association for financial advisers, has welcomed the government’s plans to continue EIS/VCT relief for community-based renewable energy investments

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne backed new nuclear in his keynote environmental speech at this week’s Liberal Democrat party conference

Chris Huhne, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, has expressed his support for the latest carbon dioxide emissions reduction targets

Employees could save UK businesses and public bodies £500m and two million tonnes of CO2 – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of all the households in Birmingham – thanks to a new, online office tool called ‘Carbon Trust Empower™' launched by the Carbon Trust

Caroline Flint MP, Labour’s Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, responding to the announcement that the Government will be appealing the High Court ruling which said that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed, said

Development progress in the world’s poorest countries could be halted or even reversed by mid-century unless bold steps are taken now to slow climate change, prevent further environmental damage, and reduce deep inequalities within and among nations, according to projections in the 2011 Human Development Report, launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today

A new £4.3 million pound low carbon project has been launched in the West Midlands set to help over 120 local building businesses learn about and take forward business opportunities using innovative technologies

UNISON is calling for urgent Government action, as UK Power Networks becomes the latest foreign-owned company in the energy sector to axe hundreds of jobs