Climate
Climate change, global warming, EPA regulations, and greenhouse gas emissions are discussed. These articles also examine methods that are being used to reduce carbon emissions that may be leading to climate change.
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Bank of England Considers Carbon Bubble, Diesel Health Study Delayed
The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged that there is a need for evaluation of the financial system's exposure to high carbon and ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico Climate Law
California's On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Climate Risk, Solyndra, MATS, Clean Air Act, China Diesel Emissions
Insurance commissioners in California, New York and the state of Washington said that insurance companies must disclose disaster response and risk management plans for increasingly ...
Warm Winter Hurting Some Businesses, Boosting Others
Apparel makers and retailers, ski resort operators and natural gas producers are feeling the pinch from abnormally warm winter temperatures in the U.S., ...
Microsoft, Coke, Nestle Detail Climate Adaptation Plans
Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Levi's, Nestle and Starbucks are among a slew of multinational companies listed in an online database just launched by the U.N. that details ...
Adapting to the Consequences of Climate Change
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: World Future Energy Summit, China Carbon Trading, Obama's Jobs Council
At the Abu Dhabi opening of World Future Energy Summit, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out three core goals for 2030 in his launch of ...
EPA Reveals Biggest GHG Emitters
The top three GHG emitters in the country are all power plants owned by Southern Company, according to data just released by the ...
‘Prepare for Low-Carbon Economy This Year,’ Ex-UN Climate Chief Says
Results from the Durban climate talks show that businesses should start preparing in 2012 for a low-carbon economy, according to the former executive ...
PwC’s Take on COP17 and Durban
PwC's take on the UN climate change summit in Durban which resulted in:
- The launch of the Durban Platform for Enhanced ...
EPA Approves Three Alternative Refrigerants to Replace HFCs
Prodded by companies as diverse as Ben and Jerry’s, General Electric, A.S. Trust & Holdings, and True Manufacturing, the EPA has approved three alternative ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Drops Kyoto Protocol, Keystone Pipeline, Gulf Lease Sale, MATS
Canada is evoking its legal right to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, indicating that penalties as high as $14 billion for its failure to meet emissions ...
Durban Parties Agree Kyoto Extension
Negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Durban yesterday agreed a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, to run from 2013 through 2017, pulling ...
COP 17 Closing Statement by UNFCCC Executive Secretary
Here's the COP 17 closing statement by UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana ...
US, China, India Hold up Durban Climate Talks on Final Day
The U.S., China and India are blocking a plan to create a legally binding global climate treaty as the final day of COP 17 negotiations ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, Gulf Coast Task Force, Chevron Fined
Durban: The world's biggest polluters -China, the United States and India - remain firmly against a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions. The nations ...
Most Climate-Responsible Companies Revealed; Scores up 54% in 4 Years
Unilever has bumped Nike from its perch as the top company for climate responsibility, in the Climate Counts 2011 review.
After holding the top ...
COP 17 Press Briefing – End of Week One
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres briefs the press on the status of negotiations at the end of the first week of ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17 Durban, SolarWorld, Better Buildings Challenge, Boiler MACT
Durban: U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres remains hopeful that countries can get past the years of gridlock to reach fresh, binding commitments to GHG reductions, Reuters ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: COP 17-Durban, EU Aviation Regulation, Boiler MACT, Clean Air Act
Durban: The draft plan for the United Nations Green Climate Fund - a financing system that would deliver $100 billion a year in aid to developing ...
