Why the next few months will be critical for green investment

Jessica Shankleman
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Reforms to the European Union's carbon trading system could save 250 million tonnes of CO2 by 2020, says Thomson Reuters Point Carbon

With rows over fracking dominating the headlines and the United Nation's Paris Summit fast approaching, it would be easy to forget politicians are currently debating reforms to the world's biggest carbon...

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