Climate Change archive

30.06.2006 Solar power does not require steep subsidies to be able to push aside environment-polluting fossil fuels, say proponents of large sun-powered projects in Laos and Bangladesh.

30.06.2006 Mountain glaciers are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5,000 years because of an unprecedented period of global warming, a study has found.

28.06.2006 UK Prime Minister Tony Blair set a one-year deadline for a new global deal on climate change.

28.06.2006 Antarctic Treaty countries failed to agree on tighter environmental measures to protect the continent amid a boom in tourism.

27.06.2006 Climate change makes temperatures rise faster at high altitudes and could threaten water supplies for people depending on glacier run-off.

27.06.2006 Proposals by the Welsh government could dramatically reduce local carbon dioxide emissions and pave the way for every homeowner in Wales to produce their own energy through installing affordable small-scale heat and/or electricity systems.

27.06.2006 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the Bush administration must regulate carbon dioxide to combat global warming, setting up what could be one of the court's most important decisions on the environment.

26.06.2006 Global warming created about half the extra warmth in the waters of the tropical North Atlantic that stimulated hurricane formation in 2005, while natural cycles were a minor factor, a new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research demonstrates.

26.06.2006 The government is to sweep away planning restrictions so that millions of homeowners can put wind turbines and solar panels on their houses.

26.06.2006 World demand for oil is predicted to increase by 37 per cent by 2030, according to the International Energy Outlook 2006 report.

23.06.2006 Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's documentary on global warming, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, is filling theatres across North America -- and gets the science right, according to climate experts.
*The inconvenience of the truth

23.06.2006 Households in the London Borough of Camden emit the lowest amounts of domestic CO2, according to a survey of all local authorities across the UK.

22.06.2006 Environment and development groups have slated the World Bank’s ‘Clean energy and development: towards an investment framework’ for its definition of clean energy, letting Northern polluters off the hook and neglecting the needs of the rural poor.

22.06.2006 China has opened a new research centre to help plan for future wind and solar energy plants.

22.06.2006 Major electronics retailers including Asda and Sainsbury's are being called on to stock more energy efficient goods in a bid to cut carbon emissions.

21.06.2006 The entire global political system has been fruitlessly distracted for nearly half a decade by 9/11 and its consequences, says John Sloboda. The US-led ‘war on terror’ not only fails to address the real threats facing humanity, it is exacerbating them, and bringing closer the likelihood of their devastating impacts on human and environmental security.

21.06.2006 The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has said he would ‘favour’ increasing the congestion charge to £20 for the most heavily polluting vehicles.

20.06.2006 China, trying to cut dependence on imported oil, will use cassava-based ethanol fuel for cars in the southern region Guangxi in 2007, state media.

20.06.2006 Visitors to Scotland will be asked to opt-in to a new ‘green tax’ under a revolutionary scheme being drawn up by tourism chiefs, environmental groups and the business community.

19.06.2006 Currently our homes account for 27% of the UK's CO2 emissions contributing to global climate change.