Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009

Cameron says he will use his G8 presidency to seek collective backing to tackle corporate abuses

United Nations global-warming talks bogged down as envoys from more than 190 nations worked into a third night in Doha to settle differences on climate aid and fossil-fuel emissions that would pave the way to a new treaty by 2015.

No Pain, No Gain

In his 50-minute closing speech to the Tory conference, the Prime Minister rejected Labour’s portrayal of 'cartoon Conservatives who don’t care'.

The former boss of US chemical company Innospec admitted corruption charges at Southwark Crown Court yesterday. Paul Jennings pleaded guilty to conspiring to make corrupt payments to public officials in Indonesia and Iraq to secure contracts.

Amid the furore over the eurozone crisis and this week's make-or-break meeting in Brussels, another equally important summit is in danger of being forgotten.

Country baulks at UN climate conference, concerned about cooling its red-hot economy

It's the most feared disease, but great leaps forward in detection and treatment mean more of us are surviving it.

A planned tax on carbon gas emitting industries in Australia would be far below a recommended price that might have forced polluters to switch to greener technology, the government said today.

In 1973 I was forced to flee Idi Amin's brutal regime. I found compassion and care in Britain. Today, I want to live in a society that holds out the same hope for fugitives

Japan survived the horrors of Hiroshima. It rebuilt itself after the nightmare of Kobe. When commuters were attacked at rush hour, business was swiftly resumed. Robert Twigger salutes the determination of a nation

On 16 February 2005 the industrial nations responsible for 55 percent of the world’ emissions entered into an agreement to reduce them by 5.2 percent by 2012.

The British are entering the new year in a gloomier frame of mind about their finances and job security than the citizens of most other industrialised countries, an international poll has discovered.