Climate Change archive

28.11.2005 A bloc of developing countries plans to make a radical proposal this week at the United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal: pay us, and we will preserve our rainforests.
* UN climate change conference
* Earth Negotiations Bulletin
* Friends of the Earth Summit briefing

26.11.2005 The rate of sea level rise has doubled in the last 150 years, according to a team of university researchers, who warn that attempts to stop it by cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be futile.

18.11.2005 Climate change presents a "global ethical challenge" as most of its health impacts will be felt in countries least able to face them and least responsible for causing them, say researchers.

17.11.2005 Five million tons of heat-trapping ‘greenhouse’ gas was successfully injected into Canadian oil fields while enhancing the field’s oil recovery, said the U.S. Energy Department.

16.11.2005 Parasitic wasps and flies naturally control caterpillars that feed on crops, but climate change is disrupting their ability to track their prey, say researchers.

15.11.2005 The leaked draft climate change programme suggests that the government is prepared only to tinker at the margins and the Prime Minister's credibility on the issue is evaporating fast, says a leading environmental group.

09.11.2005 Sixty per cent of young people, aged 8-14, are concerned that the world will suffer the effects of climate change when they are adults and more than seventy per cent of them already take action at home or school to save energy, a new survey reveals.

08.11.2005 Every British motorist will soon be driving on petrol made from sugar beet and diesel made from oilseed rape as part of the Government's fight against climate change.

07.11.2005 Climate change could cause the number of people at high risk from flooding to rise from 1.5 million to 3.5 million, and some homes and businesses could be uninsurable to flood risk in the future, a new report warns.

03.11.2005 Technology and science will provide part of the solution to global warming, Prime Minister Tony Blair said at the end of a climate change conference in London this week, apparently edging away from reliance on the binding framework and targets of the Kyoto Protocol.

02.11.2005 Ten thousand Mancunians have taken a pledge to combat climate change at the launch of Manchester city region's 'green energy revolution'.

01.11.2005 Gearing up to host the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing gets an unwelcome accolade: the pollution capital of the world.