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Carbon Diem' inventors claim that, by using GPS to measure the speed and pattern of movement, their algorithm can identify the mode of transport being used. It can therefore calculate the amount of carbon dioxide that a journey has emitted into the atmosphere

Borculo (Netherlands): Set amid cornfields and cow pastures in Holland is a shallow pool that is rapidly turning green with algae, harvested for animal feed, skin treatments, biodegradable plastics

There is good news for coal power plants. A Swedish company has developed the world

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EU lawmakers will vote next month on steps to lower carbon penalties for industry and funnel billions of euros annually into climate change-fighting technologies, a European Parliament document shows.

The European Union's emissions trading scheme puts a cap on carbon emissions from industry, and forces factories and power plants to pay for carbon permits above a certain free quota.

When 10 states in the US Northeast launch the country's first cap and trade emissions market this week, their greatest service to the fight against global warming may be the mistakes they make.

In the absence of guidance from the Bush administration on how to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the states from Maryland to Maine stepped forward to form the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

The first mandatory US inter-state carbon trading system will open tomorrow with the auction of carbon permits to power -stations. It will be widely watched across the country for lessons in how a nationwide cap-and-trade system could function.