Full Coverage: Cambiamento climatico

24.11.2009 What's in store for Britain's Department for International Development under a Conservative administration? Shadow International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has given some clues on changes in development and climat policies if there's a change of government.

24.11.2009 Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide - the main long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - have reached the highest levels recorded since pre-industrial times, says the World Meteorological Organization’s 2008 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

23.11.2009 "We must end the use of the Export Credit Guarantee Department to promote 'dirty' fossil fuel power stations around the world, and instead make it a champion of green technology." The Shadow International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell unveils a six-point manifesto.

23.11.2009 Measures to stop global warming can be as devastating to tribal peoples as climate change itself, says a new report, The most inconvenient truth of all.

23.11.2009 Large billboard adverts appear today in over 900 locations across England depicting typical British seasons that could soon look very different because of the impacts of climate change.

23.11.2009 The world is dangerously close to reaching temperature thresholds – or “tipping points” – that can unleash devastating environmental, social and economic changes, according to a new report.

19.11.2009 Guyana's groundbreaking forest conservation deal with Norway was to have been with Britain - but London showed little interest. President Jagdeo talks frankly about a project that is setting the pace for a forest agreement as part of the international climate negotiations.

18.11.2009 The proposed Energy Bill that would allow the British Government to raise money to fund carbon capture and storage demonstration projects "does nothing to prevent new large coal plants being built with only a small fraction of their emissions being captured," a leading environmental group warned today.

18.11.2009 The Copenhagen climate change negotiations are a focus not just for talks and discussions but also for artists: exhibitions on the topic include Earth: Art of a changing world, which runs 3 December to 31 January at the Royal Academy in Picadilly.

18.11.2009 Africa's freshwater resources are under serious threat from climate change and urgent adaptation measures are needed, says a study.

16.11.2009 It may seem far-fetched but success stories in changing sanitation behaviour in developing countries might offer insights for the difficult transition to low carbon lifestyles for the rich.

15.11.2009 The oceans slow down global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide. But there is a heavy price to pay in their own ecosystem. Cosmos Magazine

15.11.2009 Southeast Asian leaders agreed there was virtually no chance of finalising an internationally legally-binding agreement on climate change at the international conference in Copenhagen in December - and a proposed pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 was dropped from the final statement of a summit in Singapore.
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13.11.2009 Environment Ministers from 45 countries meeting in Copenhagen on 16-17 November have a chance to get the December international climate talks on the right track, says an international development group.

11.11.2009 On 5 December, join thousands of young people in a coordinated flashdance for climate justice on The Wave.

11.11.2009 Temperatures across the Yangtze River Basin could increase from 1.5-2 degrees Celsius over the next 50 years, while extreme weather events will also become more frequent, according to the largest river basin climate vulnerability assessment yet done.

10.11.2009 Industrialised countries must give at least 1.5 per cent of their gross domestic product to help developing countries onto a low-carbon economic path, a conference of climate-vulnerable countries agreed today.

10.11.2009 Ed Miliband's energy statement to parliament shattered Britain's credibility in the Copenhagen climate change talks, says the World Development Movement.
+ It’s coal, not nuclear, that is the important issue today

09.11.2009 Simply reducing livestock farming in developing countries will neither cut emissions nor benefit the poor, says livestock expert Carlos Seré.

09.11.2009 There are good grounds for pessimism on prospects for saving the rainforests. But the link with climate change creates new hope that two environmental calamities can be addressed together.