Analysis

Leading US businesses and NGOs have come together to offer a painstakingly negotiated blueprint for measures to tackle climate change. Federal legislators should take note, says Eileen Claussen

As voluntary carbon market participants brace themselves for the effect of the global slowdown, Christopher Cundy reports on how the market's earlier problems are being addressed

If 2008 was the year when voluntary carbon standards established themselves, then 2009 should be the year for their registries.

America's progression towards mandatory carbon emissions trading looks set to continue to support prices in its voluntary carbon market – but things look bleaker elsewhere, finds Thomas Marcello

Times are tough, but offsetting emissions can still make economic as well as environmental sense. Bill Burtis explains how organisations should approach offsetting

Renewable energy certificates (RECs, green tags or green certificates) represent the quantified non-emissions of a clean form of energy – as measured by how many tonnes of a regulated pollutant would have been emitted in creating that energy from a non-clean form. Those non-emissions are called 'environmental attributes'.

The financial sector needs to reinvent itself in the aftermath of the credit crunch. Sustainable investment should be central to that reinvention, say Cary Krosinsky and Nick Robins

British Columbia is blazing a trail with its government's pledge to go carbon neutral, and in the development of carbon offset standards. Barbara Hendrickson, Marty Venalainen and Rosanne Van Schie explain

Australia's introduction of an emissions trading scheme will transform the operating environment for thousands of the country's organisations. Andrew Petersen considers the implications

The Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme have created a global industry creating and trading carbon credits. But the industry faces upheavals that promise to profoundly redraw it, say David Hampton and Will Lynn