The Energy Minister, Malcolm Wicks MP, discusses the role of renewable energy in the overall energy mix strategy of the Government and highlights the economic opportunities that renewable energy brings to the UK. He confirms renewable energy as a key priority for the UK.

Now, more than ever, we must build bridges. We must build bridges between environmental sustainability, social justice and economic growth because only a solution that addresses all of these concerns will ensure success. And we must build bridges among the countries of the world because climate change is a global crisis requiring global action.

The campaign to re-elect the Rudd Government begins in July. It will be an incendiary month for shaping the direction of Australia's climate change policy.

On the road to a solution for the old question of waste in Naples, the Italian has made progress, but not sufficient.

Thousands of discarded computers from western Europe and the US arrive in the ports of west Africa every day, ending up in massive toxic dumps where children burn and pull them apart to extract metals for cash.

The federal government has announced $3.45 million to help local governments and professionals plan for the potentially devastating effects of climate change.

This year, the European Commission is set to revise the 2002 Energy Performance of
buildings directive.

The London congestion charge has done little to improve air quality in the capital, researchers said today.

WBCSD President Bjorn Stigson addressed the 17 th CleanTech Forum in Brussels today, looking ahead to 2050 and global changes for a low-carbon economy.

This report outlines how UK Government and business may work together to place the UK at the forefront of the green industrial revolution.

Defra and the UK dairy industry have recently launched a Milk Roadmap which seeks to reduce the environmental impacts of liquid milk production and consumption.

More recycling and waste-to-energy programmes will reduce net greenhouse gas emissions. This is the conclusion of three recently published studies.

The city of San Francisco has chalked up a 70 percent recycling rate - the highest in the US diversion of waste, which includes recycling, composting, and re-use, has increased from 35 percent in 1996, to 70 percent today, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced last week.

The American Lung Association issued its annual report card on air pollution today, ranking cities most affected by three types of pollution: short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and ozone pollution.

The global tourism industry has a key role to play in confronting the challenges of climate change, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said as an international seminar on the subject wrapped up in the United Kingdom today.

The list of businesses going "green" lengthens by the day. Household names such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard and L'Oreal boast programmes to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, use natural resources more efficiently, recycle more and clear up pollution.

Climate change is having a greater and faster impact on the Arctic than previously thought, according to a new study by the global conservation organization WWF.

The government has criticised buy-one, get-one-free offers at supermarkets for increasing the amount of food thrown away by British shoppers.

In a report released this week, KPMG
identified four risks businesses face from climate change:

T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just $2,500 (£1,200) in the bank.