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Tom Burke, CBE, former executive director of Friends of the Earth and Environmental Policy Adviser to Rio Tinto, offers his take on the most likely outcomes from Copenhagen and how any resulting deal will impact businesses over the coming decade

Presenting at this week's BusinessGreen.com's Sustainable Business Lecture on What the Copenhagen Climate Summit means for your business, hosted in association with Citrix GoToMeeting, Iain Watt of Forum for the Future offered an insight into the physical...

Danish government joins UK, France and Netherlands in imposing new rules to tackle "carousel fraud"

Energy firms predict further increases in carbon price are imminent if phase three allowances are not auctioned earlier

Computer re-use charity argues Environment Agency should increase investment in its WEEE enforcement teams

As Lord Stern talks up the chances of a robust agreement, a leading climate scientist says it would be better to have no deal than a deal that puts world on a "disaster track"

Gordon Brown says he welcomes support from firms that will be key players in low carbon transition

Environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, expected to formally announce the targets in parliament tomorrow

David Davis slams "ferocious determination to impose hair shirt policies on the public"

Climate bill defeated in 41-33 vote, as government insists it will put the bill before the Senate for a third time on Friday