With average levies on Chinese goods likely to be set at 47 per cent this year, companies interested in installing solar panels would be wise to move quickly

    

Device developed by Cranfield University harnesses sunlight to cook food, purify water, and power mobile phones

    

Over 330 exploration licences for onshore oil and gas granted, but minister insists 'robust regulation' will govern exploitation of reserves

    

Cornish MP secures influential role in Prime Minister's new parliamentary advisory committee

    

New £12.5m research centre designed to provide world-leading test facility for new smart grid technologies

    

Financial terms undisclosed as companies reach agreement over dispute relating to turbine foundations

    

NRDC estimates $100bn was needed to deal with the aftermath of droughts, floods and fires in 2012, representing the biggest non-defence spend in the US budget

    

Business Secretary insists Bank is not overly constrained, as Vantage Power picks up Shell Springboard award for hybrid bus technology

    

The NIA's Kirsty Alexander argues that the on-going nuclear negotiations represent the first test of the government's entire electricity market reform agenda

    

Florida Power and Light and General Electric reveal how they have deployed 4.5 million smart meters across the state

    

Sea-level rises could send storm floods over the barrier if nothing is done to bolster the UK's flood defences

    

Source: NY Times - From Hurricane Sandy’s devastating blow to the Northeast to the protracted drought that hit the Midwest Corn Belt, natural catastrophes across the United States pounded insurers last year, generating $35 billion in privately insured property losses, $11 billion more than the average over the last decade.

Source: LA Times - A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found.

Source: eco-seed - South Korea is set to introduce its emissions trading scheme which could be the most ambitious in the world, concluded a key report of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in collaboration with Ernst & Young.

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Source: The Hindu Business Line - ONGC on Tuesday said it has registered the OTPC power project of its ONGC Tripura Power Corporation Ltd (OTPC) as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) under the Kyoto Protocol.

Source: USA Today - We'll always have Paris. Paris is a nice place for a romance, or restaurants, or writing poems, or all of the above, by all accounts. But how about Paris as a place to settle the world's global warming troubles?

Source: RTCC - “The time is gone to think of this whole thing in terms of aid. I am one of those who argues the age of aid is over”.

Source: RTCC - The US response to climate change has been inadequate, Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted. Speaking en route to the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Sweden, Kerry praised his host’s efforts in cutting its emissions, but said his own country;’s performance was a matter of ‘regret’.

Source: Reuters - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday.