Climate Change
Darling urges action on climate change
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.
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Britain rules out climate treaty at summit
Friday, 6 November 2009
Officials say major powers too far apart for legal deal in Copenhagen.
Al Gore denies he is 'carbon billionaire'
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
As he publishes a new book, critics say climate change has made him rich
Giant climate deal is too little says UN chief
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Michael McCarthy: UN Secretary General questioned proposals for the Copenhagen conference.
Snows of Kilimanjaro will melt 'within 20 years'
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Steve Connor: Ice on African peak is vanishing at fastest rate for 100 years.
Debategraph: Copenhagen - What’s happening?
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
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?"
Steve Howard: We need a clean industrial revolution
Monday, 2 November 2009
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.
Special report: Money is key to the success of Copenhagen
Monday, 2 November 2009
Michael McCarthy: Developing countries want up to £245bn to reduce carbon emissions. But the EU thinks it should cost them as little as £20bn.
The unwanted equation: poverty vs climate change
Monday, 2 November 2009
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".
Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Livestock causes far more climate damage than first thought, says a new report
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