Ecopedia: Carbon Emissions
Carbon Emissions
Securing Britain's energy
- By Nick Clegg
- 21 May 2008
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg warns Gordon Brown not to go ahead with a new generation of coal power plants, starting with Kingsnorth, and says our future must be low carbon
Climate change - are we doing enough?
- By Jax Jacobsen
- 23 April 2008
Are plans to cut carbon emissions by 60 per cent enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change?
Nuclear fallout
- By Caroline Lucas
- 11 January 2008
The government’s commitment to nuclear power will undermine national and environmental security for decades
A new Kyoto?
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 05 December 2007
At the Bali conference, Peter Hardstaff reflects on the differences between campaigning for and campaigning against
No election? Is it good or bad?
- By Sian Berry
- 08 October 2007
Following Gordon Brown's confirmation there will be no autumn poll Sian Berry reflects on the up and downsides to not having an election at the moment
Zac, are you serious?
- By Sian Berry
- 20 September 2007
On 13 September, Sian gave her reaction to the Tory Quality of Life group's report. Then we gave its co-author Zac Goldsmith, a right of reply. Here Sian answers back.
Zac responds to Sian Berry
- By Zac Goldsmith
- 19 September 2007
Last week the Green Party's Sian Berry criticised the Tory Quality of life group report. Here Zac Goldsmith, who co-chaired the group, accuses her of a Labour-style attack.
It is not right, and it is not a right, to fly all the time
- By Alex Owen
- 02 July 2007
Cheap air travel is leading us to squander earth's limited natural energy resources. Alex Owen tells us to stop
Seven reasons why your lightbulb matters
- By Lynne Featherstone
- 21 May 2007
Lib Dem international development spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone explains why she thinks everyone can make a difference on the environment
Carbon Trading
Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale
- By Peter Wilby
- 26 March 2007
Controlling climate change will require personal sacrifice, fairness and trust. Yet successive governments have insisted on the individual's right to choose. This large bird is coming home to roost
Green colonials
- By Sue Branford and Jan Rocha
- 13 November 2006
An international project to buy large parts of the Amazon rainforest has run up against stiff resistance from indigenous groups. Sue Branford and Jan Rocha report from Brazil
Why we must ration the future
- By Mark Lynas
- 23 October 2006
You can't bargain with the planet because it doesn't care whether or not targets are "politically acceptable". So unless we secure a deal determining how much carbon each nation and each person can emit, we simply will not survive
