Carbon Tax

The Green party is calling for an £80 billion carbon tax ahead of its annual conference, which opens on Friday.

If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......

Quebec is set to bring in North America’s first cap-and-trade system from January 2012. But debate still rages about its usefulness

Oxford Economics Professor and former head of Development Research at the World Bank, Paul Collier on reconciling romantic environmentalism and mainstream economics to help poor countries