Climate Change: latest news and comment

06.11.2009 Prospects for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) are on a knife-edge, according to the Ecosystems Climate Alliance.

06.11.2009 India’s response to climate change has been paltry, half-hearted and directed at preserving existing elite lifestyles. Its credibility in international negotiations will only be restored if it takes urgent measures to reduce domestic energy use, says Praful Bidwai.

06.11.2009 As politicians meet for more climate talks in Barcelona, they continue to be fixated on measures like carbon trading that will only exacerbate the climate crisis. Fortunately, argues Kevin Smith, the last year has shown that direct action against carbon-intensive projects can deliver results.

05.11.2009 G20 governments must end their perverse fossil-fuel subsidies, which contribute directly to climate change, cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and create artificial barriers to sustainable development, urges the Green Economy Coalition.

05.11.2009 Plans to expand carbon markets at UN climate talks this December could trigger a second 'sub-prime' style financial collapse and fail to protect the world from global warming catastrophe, warns a new report.

04.11.2009 Bolivia will be battered on five fronts by climate change, according to a new report that underlines what is at stake at UN climate talks in Barcelona and an EU–US Summit in Washington today.

04.11.2009 The new Bangladesh-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development launches its first short course on climate adaptation on 15 November.

03.11.2009 African countries have won more time to hammer out an agreement on rich country emissions reductions at climate talks in Barcelona today

03.11.2009 African countries have called for a suspension of all further talks on the Kyoto Protocol - except for discussions on rich country emissions reduction targets - until substantial progress is made on this critical issue.

03.11.2009 There is a stronger desire for action against climate change in emerging economies than in the industrialised world, according to the annual Climate Confidence Monitor - with Britons least concerned among the dozen countries surveyed.