Carbon Trading

Regulators give final approval to wide ranging climate change package

Global scheme for industry would sidestep logistical problems created by regional initiatives

Australia follows EU in agreeing to binding emission targets, but environmental groups slam "weak" targets as inadequate

CBI claims agreement on 20 per cent emission reduction target delivers green businesses certainty they have been crying out for

High uptake of CDM projects and developed countries' lax targets will cause drop in 2009

EUAs close to €15 a tonne as fears over slump in industrial output bite

As talks to improve the UN's controversial carbon offset scheme kick off, Det Norske Veritas has been suspended from checking emission reduction projects in developing countries

International report argues support for green taxes jeopardised by failure to ring fence revenue for low carbon investments

Crédit Agricole, HSBC, Munich Re, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re first firms to sign up to standards that could see them refuse financing to projects that fail to disclose carbon emissions

But analysts divided over whether €16.15 price should have been higher