http://uk.oneworld.net/section/uk/climatechange en_GB_uk The best of selected climate change news and comment from around the world http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/87730 The independent status of Britain's key climate change watchdog is under threat, environmental groups have warned, because it has been included on a list of quangos whose structure could be altered at the discretion of ministers. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/87729 Europe could save £762billion and still hit its 2050 carbon reduction targets if it built fewer wind farms and more gas plants, a coalition of gas producers including Gazprom, Centrica and Qatar Petroleum has told the European commission. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/166770/1/246 It’s like a flashback – the dismal, self-serving chaos of the Copenhagen climate conference, there on the stage of the National Theatre. The writers of Greenland have done their homework: they record the incompetence of the organisers; the absurdity of the UN negotiating process with its overlapping negotiating groups and non-meeting meetings; the febrile sexual tension created by throwing together thousands of men and women with a common interest for a short, intense period. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/166724/1/246 Guidelines for a diet that will benefit both people's health and the world's environment are unveiled by an international environmental group. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/166545/1/246 All efforts to address climate change or human rights will fail unless we contend with the “elephant in the living room” - militarism, and a logic of Might is Right, says a group of NGOs. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/166533/1/246 A reported proposal by Europe and a group of small island Pacific states to ditch the Kyoto Protocol and replace it with a far weaker alternative has been slammed by an international environmental group. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/87539 The best way to spend money on tackling climate change is on family planning and girls’ education in developing countries, according to a recent paper. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/87541 Countries at climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico, this week are in closed-door meetings on a deal to evade accounting for up to one billion tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution from the destruction of native forests and peatlands. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/166432/1/246 The Science Museum's new climate gallery has an Antarctic ice core as its centrepiece, "an object many scientists consider to be pivotal in the study of climate science." http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/87416 The international conference in Cancun in December - and indeed the whole UN negotiating process - are not particularly important in the struggle to combat climate change, panellists at a meeting in London agreed on Monday. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/166143/1/246 Indonesia is considering moving its capital, Jakarta, because of global warming,the head of the country's delegation to the UN climate change negotiations in China, Prof Rachmat Witoelar, said in an interview yesterday. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/165677/1/246 Oil companies such as BP and Shell could be facing billions of pounds in future carbon liabilities as the cost of carbon rises, according to a new report. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/165377/1/246 H2Oil looks at Canada’s tar sands development – “akin to building the Pyramids or China’s Great Wall, only bigger”, according to the Prime Minister – and sounds the alarm. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86763 A leaked letter from the United Nations' climate chief suggests the Copenhagen climate summit failed because the presence of 130 world leaders paralysed decision-making and the Danish presidency backed the US and other western nations over the interests of the poor. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/165256/1/246 The Science Museum's forthcoming new gallery on climate change "will show that the Earth’s climate is changing, that human actions are the most likely dominant cause and that a major response is required," thuye London museum's director, Chris Rapley, said today.