Climate Change: latest news and comment

28.07.2004 BOSTON, Massachusetts, (ENS) - The environment was not forgotten as 35,000 people from across the country gathered at the FleetCenter for the Democratic National Convention Monday - delegates, media, official guests and foreign dignitaries.

28.07.2004 Oakland, CA. The Climate Justice Corps, a group of young activists ages 18 to 28, who have been chosen by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, are working with communities impacted by climate change and its sources to fight against the political and industrial causes of climate change. Following the success of last year's original class, the Climate Justice Corps has expanded to include 12 Corps members and several new sites across the country.

26.07.2004 The attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, as well as New York City's corporation counsel, will file a public nuisance lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan against the United States' top greenhouse gas polluters.

26.07.2004 (Washington, DC) The Center for Policy Analysis and Research (CPAR), the policy arm of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., (CBCF) released its study this morning, containing startling new information on the impact of climate change on the African American community. The study, commissioned by CPAR, and conducted by the Oakland, CA research firm Redefining Progress, forecasts a difference in the impact of climate change on people of various socioeconomic and racial groups.

14.07.2004 There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years, enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London, New York and New Orleans, Sir David King, the UK government's chief scientific adviser has warned.

14.07.2004 WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - A Bush administration proposal unveiled on Monday would give individual states the right to exempt national forests from a federal rule that bans roadbuilding and logging in some 58 million acres of remote and unspoiled public land.

12.07.2004 WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - The John Kerry for President campaign channeled the environmental community’s anger with the Bush administration on Saturday. The campaign is calling on supporters to hold "Enviros Action Parties" across the nation to expand its environmental voter support base and its grassroots fundraising.

12.07.2004 NEW DELHI - Global climate change is likely to result in severe droughts and floods in India — and have major impacts on human health and food supplies — according to the country's report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

08.07.2004 NEW DELHI, India - Got a ticket to ride? Politicians in India's once badly polluted national capital New Delhi are now making it easy for citizens to zip around in diesel cars, making greens see red in this city of 13.7 million.

07.07.2004 The viability of the human race is at stake because of "offences against our environment" which threaten the world with further wars and rising inequality, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said last night.