It’s a political row that has been going on for months. Tomorrow the European Commission is due to publish its long-awaited plans to reduce carbon emissions from passenger cars to 120 grams per kilometre within five years.
But a bitter fallout between France and Germany has plunged the key negotiations into crisis. French manufacturers such as […]

Interesting story in today’s Independent about events in Brandywine Street, a suburb of Washington DC, which the paper argues is “now on the frontline of America’s fractious debate about climate change.”
It reports: “Early on Monday morning, two masked men arrived there wielding baseball bats and a machete. They then set about attacking […]

London’s Mayor, Ken Livinstone will announce radical plans to slash London’s carbon emissions by 60% within 20 years.
Livingstone wants a quarter of London’s electricity supply to be shifted from the national grid to local combined heat-and-power systems by 2025.

Gas-guzzling SUVs or sports cars as well as people carriers could be “priced off the road within five years”, according to the Daily Telegraph after a crackdown on carbon emissions to be announced by the European Commission.
The average new car in 2012 will have to emit no more than 120 grams of carbon per kilometre […]

Gas-guzzling “Chelsea Tractors” or SUVs have suffered a sudden decline in sales after a succession of threatened tax rises, The Times reports today. Existing owners of 4×4s are facing substantial losses because the second-hand value of the vehicles has also dropped significantly.
Sales of new 4×4s fell by more than 15 per cent last month compared […]