Fears grow over Commission’s ability to support emissions trading

There are growing concerns that the European Commission is either unwilling or unable to support a robust carbon market – risking low and volatile carbon prices, or at worse the complete collapse of the market.

EUobserver - Coal-friendly Poland: a bad climate leader for the EU

inside the largest of the new member states, scepticism towards climate change science and defiance of the EU climate and energy package has predominated in governmental and mainstream media discourses for months.

MP Martin Callanan dismisses green revolt talk - Business News - News - nebusiness.co.uk

NORTH-EAST Euro MP Martin Callanan has dismissed reports suggesting he is at loggerheads with the Prime Minister over moves to toughen climate change targets.

The reports suggested UK MEPs were preparing to revolt against the Government after David Cameron and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne urged Brussels to increase the 2020 EU target for cutting emissions from 20% to 30%.

But Mr Callanan said he was behind the move - as long as the target applied to all countries, not just those within the EU.

More Science Journalists, Fewer Science Supporters

Science and journalism is needed. Both. One should get the science right but it is not journalism if you reflect only one side of an argument, no matter how strong, or how much of a consensus there may be. It might be unpopular to say, and may be alien to some scientists, but journalism in a democracy in a free society is more precious than science. Whatever one’s stance one should criticise, highlight errors, make a counterbalancing case if it will stand up, but don’t censor, even by elimination, because if that is done, we risk losing something far more precious than science. Journalists should portray where the weight of evidence lies. But that is the least they should do. Journalism is more, and some in the BBC still remember that.