Full Coverage: Climate change

28.07.2004 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been involved in an interagency effort to explore and summarize the current state of knowledge on adaptation to climate change and the need for its integration into poverty eradication and sustainable development efforts. The 10 agencies involved (UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, ADB, AfDB, GTZ, DFID, OECD, and EC) worked collaboratively on producing a paper entitled, “Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation".

28.07.2004 Oakland, CA. The Climate Justice Corps, a group of young activists ages 18 to 28, who have been chosen by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, are working with communities impacted by climate change and its sources to fight against the political and industrial causes of climate change. Following the success of last year's original class, the Climate Justice Corps has expanded to include 12 Corps members and several new sites across the country.

27.07.2004 Brazilian and US scientists report that Brazil's total greenhouse gas emissions — including those from burning fossil fuels — total 550 million tonnes, placing Brazil among the world's top ten greenhouse gas emitters. Deforestation by burning trees in the Amazon alone releases 200 million metric tonnes of gas every year - without, meteorologists say, contributing to economic or social development.

26.07.2004 The attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, as well as New York City's corporation counsel, will file a public nuisance lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan against the United States' top greenhouse gas polluters.

26.07.2004 (Washington, DC) The Center for Policy Analysis and Research (CPAR), the policy arm of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., (CBCF) released its study this morning, containing startling new information on the impact of climate change on the African American community. The study, commissioned by CPAR, and conducted by the Oakland, CA research firm Redefining Progress, forecasts a difference in the impact of climate change on people of various socioeconomic and racial groups.

22.07.2004 Attorneys general from eight states and New York City have filed a landmark lawsuit against the five largest global-warming polluters in the United States demanding that they immediately reduce the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse-gas emissions that most scientists say is wreaking havoc with the world's climate.

22.07.2004 Not disaster fiction and not tomorrow. "The Day is Today" is the Greenpeace site which spoofs the official website of the film "The Day after Tomorrow". View the real life trailer and take action by joining the Stop Esso campaign, says Greenpeace.

22.07.2004 Roland Emmerich, Director of The Day after Tomorrow, has personally financed a Future Forests project to neutralise the carbon emissions generated by production of the film. The Producer and lead actor are also working with Future Forests, providing further evidence for activists that the film has potential beyond entertainment.

16.07.2004 A new report has predicted how climate change-induced droughts and floods will significantly affect agriculture and forestry, threatening livelihoods and food security in the country.

15.07.2004 Over two billion people worldwide are likely to be victims of devastating floods by 2050 due to climate change, deforestation, rising sea levels and population growth, warn experts at the Tokyo-based United Nations University (UNU).

14.07.2004 The Global Commons Institute and the Global Dynamics Institute propose 'A New Global Vision' for climate change this week. By promoting Contraction and Convergence (C&C) - a science-based global climate-policy framework - they hope that greenhouse gas emissions can be managed more effectively and fairly.

14.07.2004 There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London, New York and New Orleans, Sir David King, the UK government's chief scientific adviser has warned.

12.07.2004 BUENOS AIRES, (Tierramérica) - The forecast of a United Nations agency about the impacts of climate change on Latin American and Caribbean agriculture by 2080 seems to be taken straight from the story of the Apocalypse.

12.07.2004 Winnipeg - The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has completed its second year of operating as a carbon neutral organization-reducing and offsetting greenhouse gas emissions associated with its operations and travel. This International institute is at the forefront of promoting greenhouse gas reduction strategies in the Canadian non-governmental sector.

12.07.2004 NEW DELHI - Global climate change is likely to result in severe droughts and floods in India — and have major impacts on human health and food supplies — according to the country's report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

12.07.2004 Global climate change is likely to result in severe droughts and floods in India — and have major impacts on human health and food supplies — according to the country's report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

07.07.2004 Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, made a speech at Lambeth Palace concerning climate change and the role of religion and secularism in understanding how we must change to confront it.

"The news for humanity is both joyful and sobering: there is a possible human future - but it will be costly for us. The question is whether we have the energy and imagination to say no to the non-future, the paralysing dream of endless manipulation, that currently has us captive."

07.07.2004 The viability of the human race is at stake because of "offences against our environment" which threaten the world with further wars and rising inequality, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said last night.

07.07.2004 Tony Blair yesterday signalled that Britain may have to build a new generation of nuclear power stations to meet the challenge of climate change.

06.07.2004 Some small countries that produce little pollution suffer greatly from the effects of climate change. In this article, originally published in Le Monde Diplomatique, Agnès Sinaï argues that small countries such as the Pacific island nations gain little from the Kyoto Protocol. Sinaï says that the Kyoto Protocol is designed to benefit Northern industrialised countries and Southern giants that are already on their way to being major global polluters. She concludes that the burden of finding alternative systems for sustainable development may, in the end, rest on the shoulders of the smaller Southern countries.