Climate change
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Graham Readfearn: Religious leaders are taking on coal with polite letters and coal blockades and say they’re in it for the long haul in the name of climate change
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People living near fracking operations should be monitored to assess the risk of chemicals to human health, say scientists
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Rich countries need to give more to plug huge funding gap and help developing nations adapt to drought, flooding and heatwaves caused by climate change, says UN report
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This week delegates and activists began arriving in the Peruvian capital for the COP20 UN climate talks, where nations will negotiate a draft text on a climate deal to be agreed in Paris next year
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John Abraham: A new study finds that cutting emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases is the key to tackling global warming
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Climate talks in Lima can save the Amazon rainforest by recognising rights of its best protectors, writes Dan Collyns
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Rapidly rising sea temperatures could melt West Antarctica’s ice shelves faster than previously thought leading to a worrying rise in global sea levels, say researchers at University of East Anglia
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Planned shareholder resolution is a ‘vital opportunity to influence companies’ climate change strategy’, says investment chief
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Carlos Rittl: Country’s efforts to keep negotiations moving towards a global agreement should be backed by robust action on cutting emissions and embracing renewables
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How science is solving today’s development problems
Frans BerkhoutFrans Berkhout: Ebola, climate change and food security are just some of the challenges that research and science can help us face and bring knowledge that we can act on -
Karl Mathiesen: On the tiny coral islands of Kiribati sandbags hold back the rising sea and drought means no fresh water. For the Pacific Islanders living at the sharp edge of climate change any result in Lima will be too little, too late
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Activists say their presence at the meeting in Peru would be embarrassing to President Rafael Correa, who wants to drill for oil in the Amazon
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My activism is fundamentally about engaging with and loving the world around me, and hoping for a fairer future. That’s why we went to Maules Creek
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Stormproofing the city Ahead of natural disasters, this foundation spends millions to spark better ideas for the government's billions
As part of our Stormproofing the City series, Rockefeller Foundation’s Nancy Kete explains how their ability to move money fast can leverage better federal spending -
These striking images capture the effects of extreme weather around the world in 2014, a year that saw record average temperatures from Australia to Europe
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‘I’ve had enough years of reviewing budgets’ says US author and climate activist as he steps down from leadership role
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Lily Cole: The Yawanawá people of the Amazon never got to open the toybox of consumer capitalism. Yet they endure floods, displacement and dispossession
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Record average temperatures highlight the urgent need to agree a deal on emissions at the UN climate change talks in Lima
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Climate Consensus - the 97% Volcanoes may be responsible for most of the global surface warming slowdown
Dana Nuccitelli: A new study estimates surface temperature cooling from volcanoes at 0.05–0.12°C since 2000 -
Companies will be judged on what they do, not what they say about going green
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Unless December turns unusually cold, 2014 will beat 1995, 2006, 1990 and 2011 as the warmest year on record
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Group of least-developed nations at UN climate summit say rich counties should do ‘substantially more’ to cut emissions
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Team examines tens of thousands of genes to identify those that allow coral to adapt to high carbon dioxide levels and more acidic oceans
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Global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than transport but fear of a consumer backlash is preventing action, says Chatham House report
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A new study shows that while higher prices have forced change, stronger policy action has prompted British retailers to move faster than their US counterparts to reduce greenhouse emissions
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Maria Eagle: £2.3bn for flood defences in England is not new money, and spending has gone backwards under this Tory-led government despite its claims to the contrary
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People respond better to climate change solutions than a bitter argument about its causes, says Adam Corner
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Curious absence of the Philippines’ key negotiator could be due to political pressure from rich countries ahead of crucial climate negotiations, say NGOs
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German Federal Environment Agency chief and IEA director predict more firms to switch to renewable energy generation
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Michael Jacobs: Avoiding dangerous climate change depends on the strength of emissions reduction targets countries collectively adopt. And this remains a major concern
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EU says mandatory carbon emissions cuts should be set for all countries, whereas US wants individual countries to be free to adjust the scale and pace of reductions
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Tony Abbott says he has ‘no theological objection’ to nuclear power. That’s fair – only blind faith could justify his belief in a power source that’s so costly and risky
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As the UN climate talks open in Lima to agree on a draft text for a binding treaty in Paris in 2015, here is a timeline of world’s top 20 emitters of carbon dioxide since the dawn of industrialisation
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COP20 is a forum for regional green policies not just global climate targets
Julian Hunt in London and Joy Pereira in Kuala LumpurWith Latin America already hit by climate change, talks in Lima are the perfect chance to discuss local green programmes, write Julian Hunt and Joy Pereira
Topics
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Global climate talks
- Cop 20: UN climate change conference | Lima
- Climate change
- Energy
- Peru
- Americas
- United Nations
- Climate change scepticism
- Deforestation
- Fossil fuels
- Drought
- Weather
- Flooding
- Conservation
- Natural disasters and extreme weather
- Trees and forests
- Australian politics
- Oceans
- Agriculture
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