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/ 16 November 2009
Kumi Naidoo, who battled apartheid as a teen, took over on Monday as Greenpeace’s executive director.
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/ 16 November 2009
Barack Obama acknowledged on Monday that time had run out to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit in December.
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/ 15 November 2009
”Gasification” technique could prevent CO2 entering atmosphere while improving efficiency of power stations.
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/ 15 November 2009
Hastily convened climate-change talks among key leaders including the US and Chinese presidents on Sunday failed to yield a breakthrough.
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/ 12 November 2009
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday it was unlikely the world was serious about tackling global warming.
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/ 11 November 2009
Delta has been warming faster than global average for a decade, and the impact is already being felt, according to WWF China.
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/ 10 November 2009
Giuseppe Oglio’s farm near Milan looks like it’s suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked.
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/ 9 November 2009
Targets and trust. These are at the heart of a tougher new global climate pact possibly just weeks away.
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/ 8 November 2009
Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged on Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured.
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/ 7 November 2009
At 8am on Wednesday October 7, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok.
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/ 6 November 2009
Climate negotiators prepared to ditch a December deadline for agreeing a new pact as United Nations talks in Barcelona drew to a close on Friday.
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/ 5 November 2009
The US will not agree to targets cutting greenhouse gas emissions unless developing countries, particularly China, make similar moves.
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/ 1 November 2009
In the deserts and grasslands of northern Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Gansu, a new wind turbine is erected almost every hour.
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/ 30 October 2009
European Union leaders resolved a funding dispute on Friday to agree a negotiating position for talks on a global deal to combat climate change.
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/ 30 October 2009
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu criticised European Union leaders on Friday for standing in the way of a global deal to combat climate change.
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/ 29 October 2009
China and the United States took the lead at the Globe Legislators Forum, calling for decisive domestic action on climate change.
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/ 26 October 2009
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations Monday to reach a compromise ahead of a climate change summit in December.
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/ 24 October 2009
Greenpeace activists on Saturday draped banners over the statues of South African leaders.
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/ 19 October 2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday urged leaders to intervene personally to break deadlocked talks to agree a global climate-change deal.
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/ 18 October 2009
Energy and environment ministers from the world’s major economies are meeting in London on Sunday to try to accelerate negotiations on climate change.
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/ 14 October 2009
Global law is unfit to deal with the millions of people expected to flee their home countries to escape droughts and floods, a group of lawyers said.
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/ 13 October 2009
South Africa can cut its annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 200-million tonnes by 2050 without sacrificing economic growth, Greenpeace said.
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/ 10 October 2009
Bitter delegates say no agreement on money or emissions cuts means a deal at Copenhagen will be weak at best.
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/ 10 October 2009
A significant climate deal later this year is
looking less and less likely as developed and developing nations slug it out over emissions.
Fish populations in the tropics could fall by as much as 40% over the next 45 years due to climate change, jeopardising food sources.
Time is running out for negotiating a binding, inclusive climate change treaty in Copenhagen, Denmark at the end of the year.
Poorer countries’ efforts to fight climate change are being stymied by rich nations’ lack of commitment, the UN said on Thursday.
Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty.
Nigeria’s Archbishop John Onaiyekan believes that climate change is a matter of justice
The world must address climate change with or without the US, writes David Adam
China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol.
Information and communication technologies are ”vital” in tackling climate change, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.