Responding to an invitation made at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos by Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 52 companies have joined forces with 34 experts and organizations to create a low-carbon prosperity Task Force...

The Climate Group and the Jet Li One Foundation have signed an MoU agreeing to work together to help Chinese businesses and governments develop a low carbon economy in China and to help foster agreement toward a successful global deal on climate change.

South Australia's Economic Development Board has published a statement which strongly supports the State's efforts to build on its position as a leader in renewable energy.

Mark Kenber, Policy Director at The Climate Group said: "Now is not the time to step back from taking firm positions; indeed countries need urgently to start working together on how, not whether, they will reach an agreement in Copenhagen that will put the world firmly on a low carbon path."

The Voluntary Carbon Standard Association (VCSA) has today launched its revolutionary global registry and project database system. It is the first multiple registry system to launch in the $330m voluntary carbon market.

The proposed fixed price plan will "help level the playing field between renewable and fossil fuel-based power," writes The Climate Group's Jane Gray...

Greenhouse gas emissions from energy use across Australia's eastern states totalled 68.7 million tonnes this summer, a fall of just 60,000 tonnes or less than one per cent compared with last summer's emissions...

The US Special Envoy on Climate Change delivered a promising speech at last week's US Climate Symposium, writes Evan Juska...

The Climate Group, in collaboration with Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and the Royal Danish Embassy, convened government and business leaders at "Switching Gears": a summit on bringing low carbon manufacturing jobs and industry to the Midwest region. At the meeting, leaders from Michigan and Denmark signed a MoU agreeing to share knowledge and learning en route to the new energy economy.

The Climate Group convened some of the US's top business executives and environmental policy makers to discuss the historic opportunity to frame US federal policy on climate change...

The Climate Group, in collaboration with Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and the Royal Danish Embassy, today convened government and business leaders at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to discuss how to bring low carbon manufacturing jobs and industry to the Midwestern region....

The global economic downturn may force the consolidation of China's solar sector. This may not be all bad news, says Changhua Wu, Greater China Director of The Climate Group....

North Rhine-Westphalia is leading the charge to scale up electric transport in Germany...

A new report from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) says that China can successfully curb and cap emissions and develop a low carbon economy...