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  • Car emission cuts to cost up to €23 billion

    01 May 2007

    Plans by the European Commission to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new cars to 120 grammes per kilometre by 2012 will cost up to €23 billion, according to an impact assessment published by the Commission.

  • EU ministers push for climate co-operation

    01 May 2007

    Europe's energy, financial, transport and agricultural policies will have to be coordinated to meet the EU's carbon goals, according to German and UK ministers.

  • A new chapter in accountancy standards

    01 April 2007

    New accounting rules in North America and Europe will lead to a revolutionary expansion in environmental disclosure. Paul Watchman and Angela Delfino explain

  • Stretch targets

    01 April 2007

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel is fast cementing her position as Europe's greenest leader. At the EU's Spring Summit last month, she surprised many observers by securing a legally-binding commitment for the bloc to hit a 20% renewable energy target by 2020.

  • Dipping their toes in

    01 April 2007

    Some see carbon as merely the first of a whole range of ­markets for ecosystem services. But, as Sissel Waage and Emma Stewart found, the corporate world is approaching with caution

  • Managing the mosaic

    01 April 2007

    US environmental commodity markets are growing, but are fragmented, and likely to remain so in the near term. Success will require coming to terms with their complexity, argue Bob Shults and Reiner Musier

  • Time for a new energy paradigm

    01 April 2007

    Martijn Wilder and James Cameron argue that, for renewable energy to play its full part in the battle against climate change, new ways of thinking about energy supply are required – supported by new approaches to policy

  • No time to wait

    01 April 2007

    Attempts to forge a post-2012 climate agreement are grinding on – but rich ­countries must not wait to put the foundations of an agreement in place, argues Brice Lalonde

  • All along the chain

    01 April 2007

    REC Group's integrated approach to the solar value chain could position it as the Standard Oil of the sector. Elizabeth Block reports

  • Raising the roof

    01 April 2007

    For many customers, high up-front costs rule out installing solar PV systems. But, as Jess McCabe reports, innovative financing packages are changing the economics of solar energy