The UK’s Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) this week announced a £20m injection of government-backed venture capital support, for the deployment of recent advances in innovative, low carbon technologies. Whilst private funds for early stage commercialisation and technology development have fallen significantly as a result of the economic downturn, this investment demonstrates the [...]

Climatico’s entire European Union team (me) has been away on holiday recently, and on my return I find that I’ve missed an eventful couple of weeks. The credibility of both the EU’s domestic climate policy and its international commitments has been dealt a couple of blows, one by a Commission publication on climate financing for [...]

 From a party not known for a forward stance against Climate Change legislation and with many members downright sceptical, perhaps we should be positive when Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) visited Saskatchewan last week and declared himself a believer, that Climate Change was a “reality”. The interview, worth reading in full, brings to light some of [...]

Starting on January 1st 2010, any US fossil fuel and industrial GHG suppliers, motor vehicle and engine manufacturers and other facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more of CO2 equivalent per year, will be required to report their emissions data to the Environmental Protection Agency. According to the EPA this will cover approximately 85 [...]

Just in time for the UN summit in New York next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned earlier this week that due to the Senate’s busy schedule it might not act on a comprehensive climate change bill until 2010. Health care and regulatory reform are also high on the Senate’s agenda, and according to [...]

Leading figures in the French wine producing communities are urging the French government to push for a strong agreement at the United National climate summit in Copenhagen this December.  Their motivation is that failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is estimated to devastate their sector in the coming years. “As flagships of our common cultural [...]

Two key members of the Swedish government – the Prime Minister and the Environment Minister – appeared last week to adopt contrasting tones when commenting on the EU’s expectations of other parties at the forthcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Sweden currently holds the EU’s rotating Presidency, and over the last few months it has been [...]