December 7 marks the start of a two week long negotiation session in Copenhagen to hammer out new international emissions reductions targets when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. So where does Canada stand in advance of these talks? We’ve got the worst record when it comes to climate change ...

On Sunday, President Obama told Waxman-Markey-bill drafters that he likes the vision of a clean green economic future in their sights, but wants them to lose the tariff approach they're currently favouring to get there.

In a development that reportedly took even President Obama's aides by surprise, the United States' new cap and trade bill has narrowly passed the House of Representatives in Congress. The bill, known as Waxman-Markey, passed by 219 to 212, with 44 Democrats, mostly from coal-producing and industrial manufacturing states in ...

Suncor Energy published its corporate sustainability report last week, trumpeting improvements in absolute water use (a 22% reduction over the past six years) and land reclamation (more than 1,000 hectares reclaimed). It also included some interesting claims about CO2 emissions.