Carbon Emissions

COPENHAGEN — Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended Friday with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama wi...

All hope is not lost in Copenhagen. The rudderless ship needs some direction though. Who better to provide that than leader of the free world?

Leaders of developing countries walked out of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen yesterday to protest what they called an attempt to kill the Kyoto Protocol.

The entire world will gain enormously from the resulting predictability, fairness and follow-through of climate and development financing that we urgently need.

The US is the only nation that has yet to signal its commitment to medium-term financing for developing nations. This is what developing nations are waiting to hear.

The epic fight over carbon emissions is barely the tip of how we survive. Mother Earth demands that fossil/nukes be transcended. This green-powered leap defines our technological, economic and ecological survival.

We need to foster more respect between drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians. And we need to improve cycling and walking infrastructure, which will cut greenhouse gases and result in public health benefits.

Reducing methane emissions could bring quick results, because its warming lasts only 10 years, while CO2 warming already in place will continue for centuries.

China looms large over the global climate summit in Copenhagen, where Chinese officials are pressing the U.S. and other rich nations to accept new cur...

If energy and climate change are the great challenges facing the human race, why are leaders who should be telling us what our options are talking like a bunch of bean counters?

Edwin Drake drilled the first commercial oil well in 1859. The Age of Oil was born. The same year, the science of global warming was born.

Much of the activity at the climate change conference in Copenhagen is kabuki theater with lots of activity, but real power concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy countries who would rather push decisions off to another day.

The idea is to make carbon-intensive industrial processes more expensive, discouraging the creation of electricity by burning coal, and instead making cleaner options like natural gas, profitable enterprises.

Time is running out for world leaders to agree on a deal to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to prevent catastrophic climate change. The conference in Copenhagen is being described as the last chance.

The US capitalizes on markets, and COP15 is a moment where it must seize the opportunity with climate change. But COP15 also represents an economic risk if we don't act because there are serious contenders abroad.

if anyone does want a more comprehensive analysis of offsets (without having to read a small forest's worth of reports) I strongly recommend "Carbonomics," a recent episode of Dan Rather Reports.

We recently had the pleasure of taking the battle against fossil fuels out of the home and into the workplace. The Abundance Foundation, a local non-p...

The critics should be silenced by EPA's announcement today formally declaring that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant, paving the way for its regulation under the Clean Air Act.

Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.

The future of coal and indeed of our total energy picture lies in change and innovation. In fact, the future of American industrial power and our economic ability to compete globally depends on our ability to advance energy technology.

Here we are, 17 years after the signing of the UN framework convention on climate change, a year after Obama's election, and days away from Copenhagen, still without a global strategy to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Carbon offsets are attractive to polluters because they're cheaper than cuts. But they'll open up a new market in carbon, open to gaming, corruption, and the creation of a "carbon bubble."

BEIJING — China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade – a...