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• The truth about… green PCs

  Do computer eco-labels mean anything?

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• Supply chain reporting: Pandora’s box of emissions?

  Reporting leaders, including Tesco, Dell and Nestle, are being urged to find out what their suppliers’ carbon footprints are. The move is getting a mixed response

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• Carbon trading: High hopes for Lieberman-Warner

  Key legislation in Congress and a hive of activity on the carbon trading front suggest real progress, writes Emily Farnworth

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• Is British Energy a good buy?

  Bidders for British Energy want the company's planning papers, not its aging reactors

• Ten eco-innovators to watch

  From chemically recycled clothes to nanotech solar panels and jet fuel from algae, these companies are playing hardball with green technology. Zara Maung and Chris Bianchi report

• Forests: A carbon trader's gold mine?

  Controversy over forests and carbon trading in Latin America is giving way to market opportunity. But project developers are still working out the rules of the game.

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• Ford’s carbon reduction plan: did it have a choice?

  Ford’s commitment to a 30% cut in emissions by 2020 has won it praise, even though it does little more than meet new US fuel economy rules.

• Special report: tourism blind to high climate risk

  Hurricanes are on the increase and sea levels are rising, but the booming tourist industry is still busy building beachside hotels

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• Grameen’s World Bank deal brings solar power to Bangladesh

  Muhammad Yunus harnesses the power of the carbon markets to put green energy in the hands of his country’s poor.

• Special report: Climate change and food prices

  A lethal combination of high prices and falling supply is threatening food security. Is the climate to blame?

• Carbon offsets: Latin America's fertile ground

  Having ironed out some teething problems, the region’s investment potential is growing

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• Special report: The real cost of climate change

  Nicholas Stern may have underestimated the cost of cutting carbon, whilst the latest OECD climate report fudged the science to cut costs. Zara Maung and Chris Bianchi investigate the real economics of climate change