You might remember that we wrote to Ed Miliband a couple of months ago (download a pdf of our letter here) to...
Thanks for all your entries to our competition to win a course at the School of Life. The lucky winner was Hannah from Chichester, who thought that we...
One exciting piece of news this month is that Carbon Retirement has reached the final of the Daily Mail and Make Your Mark 'Enterprising Young Brits' competition. Part of the competition...
President Obama's 2009 State of the Union address called for Congress to send him "legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution". He plans to make some serious...
Life is full of tough questions. Why do we live such unsustainable lives and will we get ourselves out of the mess we seem to be in? Is it our responsibility to sort it out, or the...
The UK government auctioned 4 million emission allowances (EUAs) to companies in the EU Emission Trading Scheme in 2008, raising around £55m. During 2009 another 25 million will be auctioned,...
Like it or lump it, the EU Emission Trading Scheme is going to be with us for at least 11 years. It's at the core of Europe's response to climate change - but we weren't sure what people thought...
The UK and many European economies entered a recession in the second half of 2008. This is a threat to European climate negotiations and, in the run-up to the recent climate summit in...
Would you ever ride your bike to work so that a Chelsea mum can drive the kiddies to school in a gas guzzler? That was one of the questions participants in the RSA's personal carbon trading scheme...
Government assured
Some of our offsets meet the government's quality assurance scheme. Read more...


