European advocates of trapping and storing carbon dioxide as a means of curbing power-plant emissions received a boost on Monday when an experts

A German government decision to back an almost total exemption for industry from new rules that would force companies to pay for the carbon dioxide they emit threatens to undermine a key tenet of European Union climate policy, climate campaigners warn.

IN THE recent past, there has been increasing opposition to the use of diesel as a fuel and the so-called dieselisation of our vehicles. This opposition is ill-informed. In fact, there is a clear case for greater dieselisation of our fleet along the lines of the European Union.

Investing in green technology can prove to be a big opportunity for India

Scot case was not happy. Vice president of the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were startling: of the 1,018 products TerraChoice surveyed, all but one failed to live up fully to their green boasts.

Tumbling factory output following an economic slowdown will not be enough to curb rising industrial carbon emissions in Europe, analysts said on Friday.

That means no bright lining to a credit crisis which at the same time has pressured political commitment to fighting climate change.

John Doerr spoke in a quiet, deliberate voice.