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Active Planet: Malaysia introduces road congestion pricing Bill

The Prime Minister's Department is behind the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) Bill introduced yesterday, ensuring that it has weight. But the plan needs to be thought through carefully be...

Active Planet: UK winds up wind power company

The UK government's Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented a petition in the High Court to wind up SPWEC Limited, saying that it is in the public interest for the...

Active Planet: Earthquakes rock the world; small tsunami; storms kill dozens

The earthquake in Haiti would have flattened the country if there was much to flatten; as it is the devastation to the poor has been unimaginable - made worse by the spectacularly bizarre decisio...

Active Planet: agreement to reduce wasted fish

The Fisheries Council of the European Commission has agreed to a proposal by the UK Government to take action to reduce the number of fish caught, killed and thrown away by commercial fishermen....

Active Planet: Talking to GE: their take on business needing a framework

Thinking about business’ desire for a framework as an excuse to act slowly and inefficiently on climate change adaptation and mitigation, I gave these questions to General Electric (GE), who prov...

Active Planet: Getting to the Meat of Climate Change

Copenhagen Diary: Present meat consumption in industrialized countries is unsustainable. Taking meat as a case-study, this session will discuss how far governments can go in influencing lifestyle...

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