Full Coverage: Climate change

29.07.2005 The UK's biggest power companies are failing to meet the challenge of climate change, says a new report.

29.07.2005 A new international climate change programme adopted by nations that rejected the Kyoto Protocol has been attacked as "business as usual for the United States" by environmental campaigners.

28.07.2005 The Rainbow Warrior slipped into the harbour of the world's biggest coal port this morning and dropped anchor to shut down coal exports for five hours in Newcastle, Australia.

28.07.2005 A US-led Asia-Pacific deal on greenhouse gas emissions offers no alternative to binding caps on pollution levels, says a leading environmental group.

28.07.2005 Kyoto holdouts Australia and the U.S. are expected to announce a plan to address climate change on Thursday, but campaigners and politicians around the world are wary that the deal is an attempt to undermine the otherwise widely accepted Kyoto protocol and promote U.S. technologies. The pact is not thought to include any targets or timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

27.07.2005 Travellers flying this summer are being prompted by the government to donate money to carbon cutting schemes to ‘offset’ the cost to the environment.

26.07.2005 U.S. state and local governments, businesses, NGOs, and individual citizens are taking the initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move towards alternative "clean energy" options. OneWorld concludes this month's three-part "IN-DEPTH" series on climate change from its new treeless magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.

26.07.2005 Were the G8's promises on climate change hot air? Watch the webcast of a discussion with Charlie Kronick, chief policy advisor for Greenpeace, and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King.

25.07.2005 Homes and workplaces could become mini-power stations cutting climate damaging emissions by 15%, says Greenpeace.

21.07.2005 British industry last year cut by 14.4m metric tons the amount of carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere, more than double the target set by the government, according to figures released Thursday.

20.07.2005 The impact of methane gas on climate warming may be double the amount usually cited, according to a leading atmospheric scientist.

19.07.2005 The decision by G8 leaders to organise formal talks with leading developing countries on limiting global warming is more significant than it might appear. But it does not compensate for the continued shortsightedness of the United States, says David Dickson.

19.07.2005 Campaigners have lost their appeal to force the Bush administration to regulate heat-trapping industrial gases blamed for global warming.

18.07.2005 The July/August issue examines how business needs government to effectively deal with climate change issues; diesels vs. hybrids; environmental intelligence and more.

15.07.2005 It is becoming clearer that the use of fossil fuels is impacting our changing climate, but political and financial support for these fuels makes it more difficult to wean ourselves off of them. OneWorld presents part two of a three-part series on climate change from its new "treeless" magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.

15.07.2005 The challenge of agriculture in the 21st century requires a systemic integration of the environmental, social, and economic pillars of development to meet the needs of present generations without sacrificing the livelihoods of future generations. Read a special report on Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability prepared by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).

14.07.2005 An expert working group is to be set up by the UN to decide how to respond to the threat of climate change to World Heritage sites around the world.

14.07.2005 Gleneagles may represent a real shift in the United States' attitude to climate change, argues Dr. Jonathan Pershing.

14.07.2005 In an unusually broad coalition, environmental and public-interest groups launched a boycott Tuesday against ExxonMobil for undermining efforts to combat global warming. The "Exxpose Exxon" campaign also calls on the company to follow its competitors' lead and invest in renewable energy.

13.07.2005 While it is now a widely accepted scientific fact that our climate is changing in alarming and unnatural ways and humans bear a large part of the responsibility for those changes, debate over reducing greenhouse gas emissions has remained contentious. OneWorld presents a three-part series on climate change and our energy choices this week from its new "treeless" magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.