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23 Stories on Emissions Offsets and Trading
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Carbon trading controversy in Canberra

Australian power generators have threatened legal action if the government does not dramatically increase the level of compensation in its proposed carbon emissions trading scheme.

The business of climate: A look to technology

Tim Flannery believes the future peace and stability of the world rides on action at next month's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

CNNMoney: Haggling over global warming

The success of a congressional effort to push through stymied climate change legislation remains far from a sure thing.

Fortune: The sustainability exec: DuPont's Linda Fisher

Being chief sustainability officer of a giant chemical company is a big job, but not for all the reasons you may think. DuPont CSO Linda Fisher must work hard to minimize the company's environmental footprint, but even nonmanufacturing companies now realize that the challenge is greater than they had imagined.

Democrats push green energy agenda

Top Democrats put the issue of climate change back in the spotlight Tuesday, debating legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions while announcing $3.4 billion in new clean energy funds.

Fortune: Will Obama bypass Congress on climate rules?

If Congress won't get the job done on climate change, President Obama has a way to do it himself. But is he strong-arming the legislative branch?

Climate change proposal would revolutionize value of forests

The world's tropical forests are disappearing, and one reason is simple economics: People, companies and governments earn more by logging, mining or farming places such as the Amazon jungle than by conserving them.

Fortune: Obama's stimulus killers

Barack Obama promised universal health care and a mass conversion to green energy when he launched his presidential campaign. On that frigid February day in 2007, the economy was growing at a 2.8% clip. Obama stuck to the same promises a year later when he won Iowa, as the housing market was slumping into recession. And energy and health care were the twin pillars of his acceptance speech in Denver, 18 days before Lehman Brothers collapsed.

Commentary: Don't pass bills you don't read

This July brought a very pleasant first experience -- my first Fourth of July holiday as a member of Congress.

Commentary: Obama enters 'The Matrix'

As the president moves forward on his ambitious legislative agenda, it might seem as if he is entering "The Matrix," a surreal world that only has the vaguest connection to real life.

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