Dan Box

The upcoming Australian elections will see yet another tussle between industry-supporting climate sceptics, and politicians trying to nudge their electorate towards the real world

The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?

While BP is facing billion-dollar lawsuits in the US, another British company, Cairn Energy, is beginning drilling off the coast of Greenland

Pubs are closing everywhere, and in many cases there's a simple reason behind the shuttering of the local...

21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila!

Filled up your car recently? Bought new bike tyres? Popped any pills? Then you're in part responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

We've lost control of our spending and debt to international bond markets and whoever wins the election won't be able to take it back

It goes against his better instincts, but Dan Box finds the hardback blue bible being bashed on the Tory battlebus strangely persuasive...

Dan launches a highly unscientific experiment to track the financial fortunes of five green companies, and five less-than-green...

The new feed-in tariffs are nothing if not controversial, but they also run the risk of conflicting with other, international, climate change policies

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer... well, enemies who are making some pretty bold pledges, at any rate

Denying the science of climate change is ill-informed, but then so is misreading a report to claim that the entire carbon market is flawed...

Come 31st of January - the day when international emissions cuts were supposed to be announced - carbon markets should have rocketed. They didn't, and that's a bad sign

Building offshore wind farms is great. Inaccurately quoting or massaging the figures that support them is not

Politicians talk a good green economy, but when it comes down to it, they're still only interested in seeing the GDP figures tick upwards...

This blog is unlikely to win me many friends among readers of the Ecologist, but it needs to be said: after Copenhagen, we must accept that big business is just about the best hope we have left

It's an unlikely alliance, but when one of the world's leading climate scientists and the world's biggest fossil fuel companies declare a common interest, it should draw attention

The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests it could be even uglier than we feared...

Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or corrosive? Either way, in a few weeks Denmark is going to be up to its eyes in corporate lobbyists...

Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know...

Fancy some forest carbon, guv'nor? Only one careful owner... Dan Box explains why a cautious approach to deforestation schemes would be wise

Dan takes a trip down memory lane... and discovers that not only did we call for taxes and sanctions in the last recession, but that just a few years ago airlines were promising us serious cuts...

The West has an image of China as a coal-burning monstrosity standing in the way of a clean future. But the truth is very different

You can't trust banks; can you trust insurers? Dan Box looks at the rise and rise of 'catastrophe bonds' - the new financial product with a very big downside