Full Coverage: Climate change

27.12.2004 With global mean surface temperature expected to reach 0.44 degrees Celsius above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14 degrees, the World Meteorological Organization has determined that 2004 is the fourth warmest year since accurate records commenced in 1861.

24.12.2004 Reindeer habitat is increasingly disturbed by human activity in the Arctic regions. Climate change will aggravate their problems.
From: WWF-UK

23.12.2004 Africa's capacity to assess the impact of climate change and prepare coping strategies is not on a par with the capacity of rich countries to aggravate the problem. Can Tony Blair join up the thinking on his two stated priorities for the G8?

23.12.2004 As this graphic shows, ten countries--United States, China, Russia, Japan, India, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, South Korea and Italy--produced 54 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2002. Click here for more data on carbon emission.

22.12.2004 Global warming impacts biodiversity, increasing the rate of extinction, changing reproductive cycles and growing seasons. Biodiversity affects local weather and global climate through deforestation, erosion and loss of moisture. The intricate link between the two makes preserving one a condition for the survival of the other and for the overall good of the planet.

22.12.2004 Are you ready to begin your transition to a carbon free lifestyle? Take a quiz to test your knowledge of the green life.

21.12.2004 Global warming skeptics dismiss temperature readings around the world as unreliable and the connection between human activities and carbon emissions as unproven. But climate change science has gone beyond the fundamentals of global warming theory, there is a consensus in the scientific community that earth is warming and humans are partly to blame for it.

21.12.2004 Greenhouse gases keep earth warm and livable by keeping some of the sunÂ’s warmth from reflecting back into space. In augmented levels, they push global temperature to artificially high levels and alter the climate.

21.12.2004 Atmospheric carbon dioxide emission has been rising at an unprecedented rate of 1.5 parts per million every year over the past two decades. Two-thirds of global carbon emission are produced by just ten countries, there is no sign of a slow down even though economic activities have hit a down turn around the world in recent times.

21.12.2004 A major annual conference ended Saturday with some progress made to help countries prepare for climate change; some further discussions and aid to small island developing states were blocked by U.S. and Saudi representatives.

17.12.2004 The increasing level of nitrogen dioxide in big cities in India has pressed an environmental NGO in New Delhi to question the government over its ineffective environmental policies.

17.12.2004 Insurance companies are facing year-on-year losses as a result of the increasing number and intensity of weather-related disasters, industry representatives told a major climate conference in Argentina Wednesday. The situation is expected to get worse if governments don't enact more pro-active climate policies, the gathering was told.

16.12.2004 Weather-related disasters in 2004 will cost the global insurance industry more than $35 billion - - a historical record, according to United Nations and industry officials who spoke Wednesday at an international climate conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

16.12.2004 The world's wealthiest creditor nations are sustained by the biodiversity and environmental riches of the poorest countries. It's time for the rich to pay their environmental debt and accept responsibility for the future health of the planet, said Argentine president Nestor Kirchner Wednesday at one of the largest climate conferences ever held.

15.12.2004 The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), has proposed a new framework for international negotiations on climate change on behalf of the world's businesses.

14.12.2004 The world's leading development institution, the World Bank, has not only been negligent in its mission to carry out the goals of the 1992 Earth Summit, it has undermined them and stands to gain financially in the process, says a new report released Friday at a major climate conference in Argentina.

14.12.2004 The five hottest years since 1880, when recordkeeping began, have occurred within the past seven years--and after eleven months, 2004 is shaping up to be the fourth-warmest ever. Proactive climate policies can keep future climate change--and its impact on life across the planet--to a minimum, says the Earth Policy Institute.

14.12.2004 Oil-exporting countries are demanding compensation for the loss of income that is likely to result by adoption of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

10.12.2004 The United States stood by its refusal to sign a landmark global warming agreement, insisting at an environmental conference here that it is doing more to battle climate change than many nations.

09.12.2004 While pressing for urgent action against global warming environmental activists, at the 10th Climate Change Meet in Argentina, are targeting rich countries for increasing pollution levels.