Tag Archives: climate

Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers

Studying the past can potentially inform our understanding of what the future may hold, said Michael Mann, Professor of meteorology, Penn State. Mann stresses that an understanding of how past ......

Climate Change is linked to India´s Economic interests: Shyam Saran

India needs to make a decisive shift away from fossil fuels to nuclear and renewable sources of energy irrespective of what the International Negotiations on Climate Change will yield in Copenh......

Delivering for the Environment

The Rudd Government was elected to tackle climate change. The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will be the central mechanism by which Australia tackles climate change and is the biggest enviro......

University of Chicago Climate Scientists Share Concerns About Global Warming at EPA Hearings

Two University of Chicago scientists last week appeared at EPA hearings in Rosemont, Ill., to offer support for proposed new regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions from large power plants. The......

Climate change puts world at ‘tipping point’, WWF and Allianz report says

We tend to think of climate change like the retreat or growth of a glacier, a slow and steady process, almost imperceptible, but following a manageable path. That is a mistake, warns the Tippi......

Maldives urges UN Member States to take critical action to combat climate change

The President of the Maldives implored world leaders gathered at the United Nations to urgently help the group of islands he governs in the middle of the Indian Ocean fight the menace of global......

New climate mitigation scenario highlights stark challenge ahead

This finding follows the development of a new climate mitigation scenario constructed using the same principles that will be adopted by the next IPCC assessment review using concentrations of g......

Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ), the Open University and the University of Bristol, explain that until now temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages – known as ......

Ben and Jerry’s, Eileen Fisher and Stonyfield Farm Join BICEP Coalition

The new members were announced as the U.S. Senate considers a comprehensive climate and energy legislation and as world leaders prepare to meet in Copenhagen next month to negotiate a new inter......

Saab ranked top within climate reporting

For the third year running, Saab has been ranked among Scandinavia’s 20 best companies for climate reporting by the international Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The reasons for the top rankin......

On eve of food security summit, Ban to fast in solidarity with world’s hungry

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon intends to join a 24-hour fast over the weekend on the eve of the World Summit on Food Security in solidarity with the planet’s one billion people who do not have ......

Ban calls on US to put full weight behind agreeing new climate change treaty

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the United States to take a leading role in forging a new international pact to combat global warming, warning that the consequences of failure outweigh ......

The politics of climate fixes

Layzer, an assistant professor of environmental policy in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, was among the speakers at last Friday’s daylong symposium on “Engineering a Cooler Eart......

Christopher Columbus points the finger at US for blocking climate deal

The monument commemorates the explorer’s discovery of the New World. However, today Columbus is pointing at the nation that bears historic responsibility for climate change, and which has done ......

UN official still hopeful for strong climate deal as latest talks end

As the last negotiating session before next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen concluded today, a senior official with the world body called on countries to push ahe......

Hong Kong: LCQ8: Policies to address climate change

Following is a question by Hon Cyd Ho and a written reply by the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, in the Legislative Council today (November 4): Question: Governments around the wo......