Climate Change: latest news and comment
The best of selected climate change news and comment from around the world
19.07.2008
In understanding and dealing with global warming, the world has distinct but limited periods in which to act. For our leaders, the next 18 months will be the key. Saleemul Huq explains.
more...From: ChinaDialogue Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Economy] Image: The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen (2009) will be critical. Image credit: COP15 Copenhagen 2009
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18.07.2008
How much of a cut is necessary to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change? Lester Brown puts our leaders on the spot.
more...From: Earth Policy Institute Related topics/regions: [Renewable energy] [Pollution] [Forests] [Climate change] [Consumption] Image: Plan B: cutting emissions drastically. Image credit: Earth Policy Institute
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18.07.2008
International development agency Christian Aid is asking children in India to play an active role in the battle against climate change.
more...From: Christian Aid Related topics/regions: [India] [Environmental activism] [Climate change] [Children] Image: Children in Indian school: the best way of carrying the message on climate change to their families and communities © Eija Palosuo
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17.07.2008
Three years after a devastating tsunami flattened Banda Aceh, the mayor of that coastal town on Indonesia’s northern tip reckons that restoration work is far from over. He now needs to adapt to threats posed by climate change.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] [Climate change] [Shelter & housing] [Emergency relief] Image: Tsunami damage in Aceh
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17.07.2008
Local activism is an important contribution to a struggle for a just and sustainable planet, but the scale of the climate crisis is such that only long-term, legally binding commitments can make a change. We need a new Keynesianism for the environment, says Susan George.
more...From: Transnational Institute Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Economy] Image: Susan George ©TransNational Institute
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16.07.2008
The government is "lagging far behind" in its efforts to curb carbon emissions from its buildings and activities, according to a report from a committee of MPs.
more...From: The Guardian Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Pollution] [Climate change] Image: Government's record "very disappointing" © Guardian Unlimited
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16.07.2008
"The future continues to get better for most of the world," concludes a new UN report, "but a series of tipping points could drastically alter global prospects." Global warming could become "an incubator of civil strife, genocide and the growth of terrorism".
more...From: The Independent Related topics/regions: [Information & media] [Climate change] Image: The rate at which the world's ice is melting "has doubled over the last two years". Image by kenyai
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15.07.2008
Melting glaciers in the Andes pose massive threats to the region - yet governments are reluctant to intervene.
more...From: The Guardian Related topics/regions: [South America] [Climate change] [Water/sanitation] Image: Jacabamba Glacier, Peru, in 1980 (left) and 2002 (right) © Lynas
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14.07.2008
As governments haver over the best ways to tackle global warming, private enterprise is forging ahead - and making money.
more...From: The Observer Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Corporations] [Business] Image: Big business is changing. Image credit: Sheila Steele
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09.07.2008
At the Copenhagen climate change conference (December 2009), there will be an unprecedented effort to secure the cooperation of all nations – rich and poor, developing and developed – in a just and effective climate deal. But chances of success are not high, writes Isabel Hilton.
more...From: chinadialogue Related topics/regions: [Denmark] [United Nations] [Politics] [Climate change] Image: The Bali conference was tricky enough
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