Row over EU climate loans
Guardian Unlimited | 01 Dec 2010
Europe was accused of taking unfair advantage of poor countries last night when senior officials said that it was better to make them pay for loans to reduce climate emissions rather than give them grants. Aid campaigners and developing nations have also condemned as a "complete mess" the differences between rich countries in how they account for aid pledges. They say donors are double-counting climate aid and using "creative accounting" to make climate pledges look more impressive.
 Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | Climate Change Negotiations | Development Aid and Environment

Progress in the U.N. Millennium Development Goals
Yahoo! News | 20 Sep 2010
Financially-strapped rich countries will call for a rethink of strategies to make sure their aid funds are not wasted when world leaders meet this week to discuss U.N. goals to tackle global poverty.
 Development Aid and Environment | Governance | Poverty Reduction

WWF-UK: Historic debt-for-nature swap to conserve the forests of Cameroon
WWF-UK | 27 Jun 2006
France and Cameroon have signed the first ever Central African debt-for-nature swap.
 Biodiversity and Trade | Biodiversity Conservation | Development Aid and Environment | National Policies and Environmental Laws | Poverty Reduction

Climate change will be catastrophe for Africa
The Independent | 16 May 2006
Africa is facing the greatest catastrophe in human history. Climate change represents a nightmare scenario for the future of the people of the world's poorest continent, according to the official preparing a top- level report which is due to land on the desks of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in later this year.
 Biodiversity | Protected Areas | Threatened Species | Economics and the Environment | International Environmental Conventions | National Policies and Environmental Laws | Poverty Reduction | Planning and Management of Development | Biodiversity Conservation

Fiddler's Ferry to get green technology
Green Consumer Guide | 24 Apr 2006
Scottish and Southern Energys Fiddlers Ferry Power Station has been given Government consent for a flue gas desulphurisation plant to be developed, in a move towards cleaner coal energy generation.
 Energy Consumption | Fossil Fuels | Transport | Aviation | Economics and the Environment | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Energy Conservation | Environmental Awareness | Education

Marine bill is 'once in a lifetime' chance
Green Consumer Guide | 04 Apr 2006
Conservation group WWF has described a potential Marine Bill resulting from the Governments consultation announcement as a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect our seas.
 Protected Areas | Threatened Species | Urban Environment | Urban Pollution | Economics and the Environment | International Environmental Conventions | National Policies and Environmental Laws | Environmental Awareness | Education

Climate change programme review - Labour's credibility test
Friends of the Earth- England, Wales and N.Ireland. | 24 Mar 2006
Friends of the Earth today warned that the Government's Climate Change Programme Review, due to be published on Tuesday 28th March, is the acid test of its credibility on climate change.
 Transport | Aviation | Economics and the Environment | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Development Aid and Environment | Energy Production | Industry | England | Scotland

Cleaner diesel standard seen cutting asthma attacks
Reuters | 13 Mar 2006
Maligned as the fuel behind surging rates of asthma and other diseases in the United States, diesel will get an overhaul this year that could save thousands of lives, experts say.
 Nuclear Power | Energy Consumption | Renewable Energy | Gas-Fired Power Plants | Fossil Fuels | Hydropower | Transport | Aviation | Economics and the Environment

The fish list: how your supermarket rates
Guardian Unlimited | 01 Mar 2006
Fish sold at supermarkets that compete most ferociously on price is not as sustainable as that available in smaller, upmarket chains, according to a Marine Conservation Society league table.
 Protected Areas | Fisheries | Threatened Species | Economics and the Environment | Coastal Development and Tourism | International Environmental Conventions | National Policies and Environmental Laws | Environmental Awareness | Education

Australia, New Zealand mull emissions trading timeframes
Environmental Finance | 24 Feb 2006
Officials are eyeing 2010 as a likely start date for a proposed multi-state emissions trading scheme for Australia, while a New Zealand minister has suggested that his country is unlikely to introduce a trading scheme before 2012. The comments were made at a climate change and business conference in Adelaide this week.
 Nuclear Power | Energy Consumption | Renewable Energy | Gas-Fired Power Plants | Fossil Fuels | Hydropower | Transport | Aviation | Economics and the Environment