Full Coverage: Climate change

29.10.2004 Analysts worldwide concur that global warming could lead to forced migration and new conflicts, thereby posing a threat to the security of nations.

26.10.2004 Leading environmental and development organisations have come together to call for action on climate change that is adversely affecting agriculture in developing countries making them poorer.

26.10.2004 A report by leading development groups warns that UN targets to reduce poverty would become unachievable as global warming over the next 50 years could lead to extinction of ecosystems that sustain the poor.

26.10.2004 The Russian parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol last week giving the agreement the push it needed to become international law, despite Bush failing to sign up.

25.10.2004

Support for Kyoto treaty © WWF International

In addition to setting the stage for the 1997 Kyoto ProtocolÂ’s entry into force early next year, FridayÂ’s overwhelming ratification by the RussiaÂ’s lower house of Parliament underlines the degree to which the administration of President George W. Bush has isolated the United States from its industrialized partners.

22.10.2004 BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Commission approved emissions trading plans in six European Union countries Wednesday, bringing the total of E.U. nations ready to implement the Kyoto climate change pact to 14.

21.10.2004 Global warming threatens to reverse human progress and make international targets on halving world poverty by 2015 unattainable, a study published today said.

21.10.2004 Climate change could have a devastating effect on the worldÂ’s poorest, campaigners warn. Urgent action is needed if the Millennium Development Goals to halve poverty by 2015 are to be achieved.

20.10.2004

Climate calamity

Poverty, environmental degradation and lack of preparedness are turning natural hazards into major disasters and causing heavy human and economic losses around the world. In 2003 alone, close to one million lives and more than $50b worth of properties were lost to natural disasters from cyclones in the Caribbean through earthquake in Iraq to flood in China.

15.10.2004 European environment ministers are planning to limit fluoridated greenhouse gases, which are thousands of times more damaging to the climate than carbon dioxide. In today's Environment Council meeting they started to think ahead to climate policies after the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period which runs from 2008 to 2012.

15.10.2004 A worrying rise in the levels of so-called greenhouse gases linked to climate change highlights the importance of the Kyoto Protocol, British Environment Minister Elliot Morley said on Wednesday.

15.10.2004 African termite mounds could help scientists develop energy efficient buildings that can adapt to an increasingly changing climate and atmosphere, according to Rupert Soar, of Loughborough University's School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

11.10.2004 For centuries, a huge glacier had loomed over a small iceberg-flecked lake in the Peruvian mountains. But then came global warmingÂ… Mark LynasÂ’s dramatic story of the Andean glacier foretells a frightening future for hundreds of millions of people across five continents.

06.10.2004 Responding to analysts' forecasts that oil giant BP will record £9 bn profits this year, Friends of the Earth today (Monday 4th) accused the oil giant of profiting at the expense of people, climate change and the UK tax payer. BP receives huge subsidies from the Government every year for its business exporting oil from some of the world's poorest countries to the West.

06.10.2004 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc. on Monday agreed to participate in an emissions reduction program through the Environmental Protection Agency.

06.10.2004 The chief scientific advisor to the UK government recently claimed that climate change is a more serious problem than terrorism partly because global warming would increase the number of people threatened by hunger, disease and extreme weather conditions.

In this letter, Indur M. Golkany of the US Department of the Interior, argues money would be better spent addressing present-day vulnerabilities to malaria, flooding, and food and water than on "heroic" efforts to mitigate climate change.

06.10.2004 The United States is planning to try and block European plans to make airlines pay for the climate-changing gases they emit. The move will be a major challenge to Tony Blair who has promised to champion the EU proposals on the international stage, and follows in the wake of the Russian cabinet's decision to approve the Kyoto protocol on tackling climate change.

05.10.2004 Many conflicts in war-torn Africa are rooted in increasingly parched and degraded land exacerbated by global warming, the first of a series of U.N. regional checkups of the planet's health found.

05.10.2004 Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to ask parliament to ratify the Kyoto Protocol should belatedly allow the anti-global-warming treaty to come into force, but it's far from saving the climate.

While Putin, who once joked that the chilly regions of Russia could benefit from global warming, basks in the praise of environmentalists, climate experts say that even with the treaty in place, the world has barely started to tackle climate change.

05.10.2004 The United States aims to stop EU plans to make airlines pay for the climate-changing gases they emit.