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Policy Exchange report calls for steadily rising levy to help tackle climate change

71% in Guardian/ICM poll say first minister won debate in which he accused no campaign leader of siding with ToriesAlex Salmond staged a dramatic fightback in the Scottish independence campaign after mounting repeated attacks...

First minister forces former Labour chancellor on to the back foot on currency and the NHS in fractious televised confrontationAlex Salmond accused the former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling of siding with the Tories in...

Alistair Darling will announce plans to back low-carbon transport and energy projects in 'budget for growth'Alistair Darling will this week announce a £1bn fund to kick-start investment in green transport and energy projects...

EEF says 90% of £2bn earmarked for London Array wind farm is being spent abroadThe manufacturing sector has savaged suggestions from the chancellor, Alistair Darling, that Britain is benefiting from government support for...

Hypermobility is now the opium of the people, an obsession that wrecks communities and planet. There are no free tripsNature loves irony. As Copenhagen's Glastonbury of gloom ended last week and the global warming groupies...

Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains groundGeorge Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating...

The first 'green budget' is very balanced – every measure to stop climate change is balanced with one that makes it worse

We still have a long way to go, but this week's climate decisions inch us towards the big target

The car scrappage scheme will raise emissions, while the target for cutting carbon emissions of 34% by 2020 is still not enough

Greenpeace dismisses the £375m energy-effiency package, expected to save 380,000 tonnes of CO2 each year, as 'woeful'