The UK's Green Building Council (GBC) has just announced plans to help address the confusion arising from the myriad of different green building standards through a new Code for Sustainable Buildings, designed to underpin various consultancies and standard bodies' own green building guidelines.

According to the Carbon Trust’s new guide - 'Low Carbon Refurbishment of Buildings - a low carbon refurbishment does not require significant increases in complexity, or adoption of high risk or unproven technologies.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has announced that he has received Government approval in principle to establish an Irish Government Offsetting Scheme to offset the emissions associated with official air travel by Ministers and Civil Servants.

The European Commission has written to 23 Member States to request information on what action they are taking to comply with the EU's air quality standard for dangerous airborne particles, known as PM10.

Webcasting events seriously reduce your carbon footprint - according to key findings of a report from co2balance commissioned by BroadView.

For the past five years, scientists from Norwegian R&D centre SINTEF and the Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) have attempted to develop cheaper methods to reduce the amount of sulphur in petrol.

The Irish Independent has reported that Irish airlines have reacted angrily to a new green tax that will add an estimated €56 to the cost of a family holiday.

One of the gases used in the production of LCD TVs could have a worse impact on global warming than all the developed nations' coal-fired power-stations, according to a recent report.

The Financial Times reports that George W. Bush has said that he was prepared to be 'constructive' in discussions on climate change at the G8 meeting in Japan.

The Irish Times has reported that the Group of Eight leaders have pledged to work with the nearly 200 states involved in United Nations climate change talks to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.