A recent headline skittered across web pages, as it did above an Environmental Leader article pointing out a "surprising" upward sign in these tentative times: Along with seasonal temperatures, investor interest in climate bonds has warmed to a tune of $174 billion according to an HSBC Change Center commissioned research report.

Having ‘clean coal’ in a group’s name is a bit like a red flashing light on the road ahead to a healthier economy and a smarter grid.

So when the Guardian Environmental Network published in a Business Green blog October 18 post that Clean Coal Task Group asked Parliament to fast track UK’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) timetable and add on to its first £1 billion CSS competition, there was reason to clarify the good, the bad and the ugly.