Emissions

Green groups criticise "foot dragging" as UN body only agrees to have "tools in place" for a market-based measure by 2016

Brussels hopes only charging airlines for emissions in its airspace will advance a global deal this week - but take-off is likely to be delayed

US research warns that efforts to tackle short-lived climate pollutants will not deliver as significant temperature reductions as first thought

Test drilling finds undersea site could hold 200 million tonnes of CO2 from a cluster of Humberside industries

City swaps 8,000 high-pressure sodium lamps with ceramic metal halide lamps and will replace a further 12,000 over next 18 months

Amendment extending emissions standards to existing plants to be debated after campaigners warn 20GW of coal generation could be operating into the 2020s

Environmental information platform amee outlines plans to build global data based on companies' carbon performance

Countries agree to tackle coal-fired power stations and heavy-duty vehicles under new bi-lateral accord

SMMT report finds overall manufacturing emissions have fallen by over 40 per cent since the year 2000

Commission says draft law would provide a "building block" towards a global solution to limit the sector's impact