Investment

Lisa Ashford of EcoSecurities takes the temperature of the carbon offsetting sector and finds it in remarkably rude health despite the recession

Government matches private sector funding in attempt to get prototype on road by 2011

Metals, building materials, textiles and ceramics could all receive free pollution permits to help tackle threat of "carbon leakage"

Department urges other public sector bodies to follow suit, reveals £20m of low interest energy efficiency loans still up for grabs

Many hot rock research projects to receive "unprecedented" level of federal funding

SAIC plans rollout of hybrid and all-electric autos over the next three years

Carbon markets have been hijacked by speculators and should be replaced with direct taxation, says Friends of the Earth

US Department of Energy provides Alaska, Kansas, Utah and West Virginia with cash for energy efficiency and green job projects

Sage of Omaha hails "extraordinarily environmentally friendly" means of transport

Report forecasts slow growth for renewable energy in the region, at only 1.3 per cent annually