Climate Change: latest news and comment

02.11.2009 The future of the world's remaining rainforests may inch closer to resolution when UN climate change negotiations resume in Barcelona today as delegates from 190 countries try to decide on the fate of the forest component of the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty.

02.11.2009 The US should join Europe in laying its climate finance cards on the table, said an international development group as international climate talks opened in Barcelona.

31.10.2009 None of the top 10 Conservative bloggers believes that man-made global warming is an established fact; all 10 reject David Cameron's view that the issue should be an urgent priority if the party were in government.

31.10.2009 Repackaging aid money as climate finance is dishonest and risks undermining both climate and development goals, say a a group of faith-based NGOs in response to the European Union's latest position on financial support for climate change measures in developing countries.

30.10.2009 The European Union’s suggestion today of global public financing worth €22-€50 billion a year for developing countries to tackle climate change falls short of what is needed, says an international development agency.

30.10.2009 Poor communities in the developing world are “part of the solution” to tackling climate change, a leading Catholic aid group has told UK faith leaders.

29.10.2009 Africans need to safeguard their homes and livelihoods against the unpredictable effects of climate change, according to a paper by a senior British scientist.

29.10.2009 Hundreds of miniature tents by German artist Hermann Josef Hack have sprung up in London, Brussels, Berlin, Dublin and Madrid to show European Union leaders what is at stake should they fail to agree a position on climate financing while they meet in Brussels.

28.10.2009 High alpine areas are feeling the impacts of climate change harder and faster than many other areas.

27.10.2009 "The meat and dairy industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transport and its impact must be reduced if we are to prevent runaway climate change," says a campaigner for a leading environmental group, in support of comments by Lord Stern...
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