The World Bank has offered a sobering look at a world where temperatures are allowed to increase past the 4 degrees Celsius mark.
But several major signatories are refusing to expand emissions cuts when the agreement expires, writes Fiona Macleod.
Climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty in Doha as developing countries and the EU staked out rival positions on the fate of the Kyoto Protocol.
Local companies are matching the world’s best in declaring their carbon emissions, and doing something about them.
Rich nations are dismaying developing countries with pledges merely to continue aid to help them combat climate change in 2013.
Often touted as a solution to climate change, forests actually threaten Africa’s savanna ecosystems, writes Kimon de Greef.
Bee farmers in Vietnam are being forced to change decades of best practice to deal with a changing climate, writes Mike Shanahan.
China has agreed to work with the EU to create its own carbon trading system. This will create a large pool of funding for sustainable development.
A report has found the economic impact of global warming is costing the world more than $1.2-trillion a year, wiping 1.6% annually from global GDP.
The effects of climate change are accelerating and the collapse of mitigation trade has implications for emissions reduction.
It is time for farmers around the world to sound the alarm on climate change, writes Jay Naidoo.
With less than 10% of the Caribbean’s reefs showing live coral cover, one of the world’s most important ecosystems is in danger of utter devastation.
Karl Marx noted that the last capitalist would sell the rope used for his own hanging and the burying of the system.
Global climate talks are edging closer to finalising mechanisms that will steer funding to developing countries to grow low-carbon economies.
With food prices already soaring around the world, the future looks bleak for SA, too, as the price of staple foods could more than double by 2030.
Endless global conferences with progressively weakening outcomes are lessening hope that global temperature increases can be reined in at 2C.
A spirit of determination has prevailed at the UN press briefing about the Rio+20 conference which will take place in Brazil later this year.
Divisions over who should lead the fight against climate change should be laid aside say ministers from some of the world’s poorest countries.
At the Gobabeb research centre in the Namibia desert, young African scientists gather data for climate predictions.
An unlikely alliance of business, civil society, government, farmers and rural communities in Bavianskloof is working to restore ecosystems.
We visit communities with local water project Umphilo WaManzi. Helping people adapt to climate change and educating them on how to protect their water supply.
As high level negotiations kick into gear, M&G environmental journalist gives a clear analysis of the major developments and issues facing cop17.
Thousands of activists have hit the streets of Durban to make sure their voices are heard during COP17. "Climate change negotiators need to do more", they said.
Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace. He outlines what the organisation wants to see happen here at the negotiations in Durban.
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/ 14 December 2009
The marathon United Nations climate summit entered its second week on Monday as environment ministers readied closed-door meetings.
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/ 8 December 2009
Negotiators at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen got down to the nitty-gritty on Tuesday.
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/ 6 December 2009
The fate of five babies, born on different continents, will be dominated by the shifting weather patterns their parents are starting to confront.
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/ 5 December 2009
Gordon Brown leads a chorus of condemnation against climate change sceptics who have tried to derail the Copenhagen summit.
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/ 4 December 2009
Today, over 56 newspapers in 44 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial.
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/ 24 November 2009
The leaked correspondence by climate scientists is disturbing, but only a far greater conspiracy would justify sceptics’ claims.
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/ 20 November 2009
The new head of Greenpeace has challenged Barack Obama to agree to a binding treaty, writes David Smith.
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/ 12 November 2009
Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, WWF warned on Thursday.