China's Huaneng Group will start in June building the country's largest wind farm of 300 megawatts, a Chinese paper said, as the world's second-largest energy user seeks to grow its tiny renewables se

Bangladesh observed on Saturday, with the rest of the world,

For the first time in North America, the Canadian province of British Columbia has introduced a consumer-based tax on carbon emissions. Announcing a budget plan for the year, finance minister

Air New Zealand is offering customers carbon credits to offset emissions from their travel and is investing in forest planting to reduce its own pollution.

Deutsche Asset Management, the $800bn fund unit of Deutsche Bank, plans to launch the world's first private equity fund specialising in climate change, or green investments. "We're developing the product," Kevin Parker, DeAm chief executive, told the Financial Times. "We are already the biggest climate change investors in the world. That has happened really in just the past 18 months." The move dovetails with DeAm's commitment to climate change as a potentially huge investing trend and with its desire to develop more products in the higher-margin end of the asset management business.

The Green Ventures Carbon Fund has tied up with a few major European financial partners and are actively looking for Indian strategic partners and project developers either for carbon credits or to jo