Addressing climate change can seem a colossal task. Melanie Jarman reports on the emerging ‘transition town’ movement, which is encouraging citizens’ participation in long-term planning to change energy use at a local level.

The dubious practice of carbon offsets faced an upset recently when The Phone Co-op, widely viewed as a standard-bearer of ethical practice, faced a motion at its Annual General Meeting calling on the telecoms company to end its involvement in carbon offset deals….

The recent controversy over Russian gas supplies demonstrates that the sooner we work out how to radically reduce energy consumption, the less painful the transition will be.

Manchester’s quest to be the greenest city in England.

As the Arctic dwindles, Blair dawdles.

Climate change will be top of the agenda at the G8, but while practical solutions to the problem do exist, they are unlikely to be discussed.

The EU’s much heralded Emissions Trading Scheme will do nothing to tackle the problem of climate change.