Fast Start Finance website to provide information on industrialised nations' climate funding commitments

The European Commission (EC) has approved €250 million of funding for 210 new projects under the third call for the LIFE programme the European fund for the environment which runs until 2013.

Europe’s current focus on recovery from recession must not distract us from the urgent question of what kind of economy we want to build.

Investors are braced for a clear-out of BP's leadership once its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is capped, which could come in the next few weeks, according to several leading shareholders and people close to the group.

Officials in Florida closed more beaches Thursday as oil from the massive gulf leak continued to spread.

Chemical destroys all oxygen in water. While oil continues to spill into the ocean after the sinking of the deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, in the United States worst ever ecological disaster, scientists have made an even more alarming discovery. There are heavy amounts of methane in the oil being leaked, and the chemical has a great potential for destroying oxygen in the water.

When the Deepwater Horizon fell two days after exploding on April 20, 2010, BP told the American public that the hole in the Gulf floor was leaking at a rate of 1,000 barrels a day. On April 28th, that number increased to 5,000. Today, independent scientists agree that the true spill rate, before the riser pipe was cut off last week, was between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels a day.

Ten miles off the coast of Louisiana, where the air tastes like gasoline and the ocean looks like brownie batter, Louisiana State University professor Ed Overton leans out of a fishing boat and dunks a small jar beneath the surface of the oil-covered water.

The Environment Committee of the European Parliament has revisited an illegal logging text after being unsatisfied with how far the original ruling went. EU parliament take another logging vote

A "people's conference" on climate change agreed in Bolivia Thursday to call for the halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 at the next UN climate meeting in Mexico in December.