The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne, led the announcement of the Comprehensive Spending Review last week, introducing what’s expected to be one of the most challenging economic periods in the history of the UK. Whilst spending cuts were inevitable from any Government, Ed Milliband, Leader of the Opposition, claims that the Coalition’s Government’s ‘slash … Read More…

Ed Milliband narrowly defeated his older brother David Milliband for the Labour Party’s leadership on Saturday, boosting the prospects of the environment taking priority at the forefront of UK policy making. During his last 18-month tenure as Minister for Energy & Climate Change, Ed Milliband boasts an impressive track record for progressing environmental policy within … Read More…

Article By Guest Contributor: Lynann Butkiewicz

As world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, another type of gathering was taking place across the city. Government officials, NGOs, and private sector leaders held a series of meetings during Climate Week, a week dedicated to the growth of public-private partnerships in response to … Read More…

In August, the French government launched a major renewable energy investment programme.  The new programme is dubbed <<démonstrateurs énergies renouvelables et chimie verte,>> which translates directly to “renewable energy and green chemistry demonstration.”  The renewable energy investment programme will provide €1.35bn of financial support to the sector over the coming four years.

Officials have said that … Read More…

Plans for the largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere just rose from the dead.

At a cost of NZ$2 billion, Project Hayes was put forward by Meridian Energy, the country’s first carbon neutral energy company, a state-owned enterprise that provides renewable electricity in New Zealand. The proposal involved 176 turbines, each 160 metres … Read More…

Article By Guest Contributor: Lynann Butkiewicz
As Congress convenes in the weeks before the mid-term elections, there is likely to be one final push for a comprehensive energy bill, although the chances of it passing are slim. Congress will be looking to pass top priority legislation addressing the key issues concerning the American public including job … Read More…

Article by Guest Contributor: David Hall

New Zealanders are not usually known as passionately political. So when tens of thousands of protesters marched through downtown Auckland, as they did on 1st May this year, it was obvious a nerve had been struck.

The issue was environmental. The centre-right National Government had proposed opening 7058 hectares of premium … Read More…

Article by Guest Contributor: David Hall

On July 1st this year, New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) began to turn the screw on its greenhouse gas emissions. With forestry liable since 2008, the energy and industrial sectors finally entered the carbon era.

Fuel and power companies immediately displaced the cost of greenhouse gas emissions onto consumers, raising … Read More…