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Darling urges action on climate change

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:57:41 GMT

Chancellor Alistair Darling today urged the world's most powerful finance ministers to treat climate change with the same urgency they gave to the world economic turmoil.

Britain rules out climate treaty at summit

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

British Government officials believe there is no hope of signing a legally binding climate change treaty in Copenhagen next month.

Copenhagen: What's happening?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:30:21 GMT

Al Gore denies he is 'carbon billionaire'

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Al Gore, the former American vice-president, yesterday hit back at critics who are labelling him the first "carbon billionaire" from his earnings as an investor in green technology, dismissing them as "global-warming deniers".

Giant climate deal is too little says UN chief

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:15:04 GMT

The giant cash deal to save the planet – proposed by Europe for the forthcoming Copenhagen climate conference – will not be enough, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, said today.

Debategraph: Copenhagen - What’s happening?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:48:27 GMT

The balance of probability, if the recent downbeat pronouncements from the UN are to be believed, is that the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month will end, like a Spike Milligan sketch, with the actors shuffling offstage, staring into the half-distance, mumbling "What are we going to do now? What are we going to do now?"

Climate change will melt snows of Kilimanjaro 'within 20 years'

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa – may soon be falling on bare ground following a study showing that its ice cap is destined to disappear entirely within 20 years, due largely to climate change.

Steve Howard: We need a clean industrial revolution

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:45:19 GMT

Scientists and economists agree we need to more than halve emissions by mid-century. This means every major decision - every investment decision or new policy decision – needs to be a low carbon decision.

The unwanted equation: poverty vs climate change

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The proposed Copenhagen climate treaty has plenty of jargon – "mitigation" and "adaptation" are two examples already given. But the key word may yet turn out to be "additionality".

Money is the key to the success of Copenhagen

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

You think it's about greenhouse gases. You think it's about carbon emissions. And it is. But the Copenhagen agreement on climate change that the world community will attempt to sign in December is just as much about money – enormous, mind-boggling amounts of money.

Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal products to help the environment.

Study claims that meat creates half of all greenhouse gases

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Meat creates half of all greenhouse gases

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT

PM hails EU climate fund 'breakthrough'

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Europe's leaders will present a £90bn plan to cut the world's greenhouse gas emissions at the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen. After hours of wrangling at the EU summit in Brussels this week, they gave broad backing to Gordon Brown's calls for developed nations to put a price on tackling global warming.

Brown's opposition to climate change plea

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Next month's crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen could be jeopardised by European wrangling over the cost of tackling global warming, Gordon Brown warned EU leaders.

Power station protest ends with arrests

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:21:57 GMT

A climate change protest being staged on top of a power station chimney came to an end today.

Coastal homes in Australia at risk from rising sea levels

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Australia's love affair with the beach is in danger of being rudely terminated. A parliamentary report released yesterday suggests that the government may have to force people to abandon prime oceanfront homes along thousands of miles of coastline vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Go veggie to fight global warming, says expert

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:50:03 GMT

One of the world's leading climate change gurus urged people to become vegetarian today, to help beat global warming.

Protesters climb power station chimney

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:55:48 GMT

Activists have climbed a power station chimney in a protest over climate change.

Historic chance to halt the scourge of deforestation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT

At last, the wreck of the rainforests is being tackled. One of the key parts of the Copenhagen climate agreement which the international community will try to construct in December is a comprehensive treaty aiming to reduce deforestation rates in the developing countries by at least 50 per cent by 2020.

Rainforest treaty 'fatally flawed'

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT

A vital safeguard to protect the world's rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December.

Richard Green: Shrinking the energy policy triangle

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:27:03 GMT

Energy is never far from the headlines – price rises, climate change and power cuts have all featured, along with wind farms and nuclear power.

What an average temperature rise of 4°C would really mean for the planet

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:03:54 GMT

Government launches map to highlight global warming threat

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:44:02 GMT

A nightmare in the not-very-distant future: the map below shows the enormous temperature rises which British scientists believe the planet may be experiencing in as a little as 50 years from now if global warming remains unchecked.

Government launches map to warn of global warming threat

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:44:02 GMT

A nightmare in the not-very-distant future: this new map shows the enormous temperature rises which British scientists believe the planet may be experiencing in as a little as 50 years from now if global warming remains unchecked.