More green investment, less spending on polluting practices – John Vidal
30/9/2009 Guardian Switching public spending from “grey” projects such as roads and airports, to green” schemes such as parks, tree planting and allotments, would not just save the government billions of pounds, improve health, and cut climate emissions,
but it would create jobs and make British cities more attractive. Read the rest of this entry »
Increase in sea levels due to global warming could lead to ‘ghost states’
30/9/2009 Guardian Rising temperatures and rising sea levels threaten small island states such as the Maldives, which face being abandoned. Read the rest of this entry »
By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis
30/9/2009 Guardian Sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia will be most vulnerable to food shortages, the IFPRI report found. Read the rest of this entry »
Adapting to impacts of climate change will cost $75-100bn (£47-63bn) per year in the developing world from 2010
30/9/2009 BBC - a World Bank study concludes. Read the rest of this entry »
US ignorance about the risks and reality of global warming could sink hopes of a new global deal in Copenhagen
29/9/2009 Guardian …..an advisor to the German government has said. Read the rest of this entry »
British Airways has come under fire from environmental groups for the launch of its luxury service to New York.
29/9/2009 Guardian British Airways was accused of hypocrisy as the airline prepared to launch a luxury all-business service between London and New York, with just 32 seats on an aircraft normally fitted for 100 people Read the rest of this entry »
Stop blaming the poor. It’s the wally yachters who are burning the planet – George Monbiot
29/9/2009 Guardian It’s no coincidence that most of those who are obsessed with population growth are post-reproductive wealthy white men: it’s about the only environmental issue for which they can’t be blamed. Read the rest of this entry »
Four degrees of warming ‘likely’ – MET Office Report
29/9/2009 BBC In a dramatic acceleration of forecasts for global warming, UK scientists say the global average temperature could rise by 4C (7.2F) as early as 2060. Read the rest of this entry »
CO2 is green: Leo Hickman on the TV advert making viewers choke
28/9/2009 Guardian A TV advert paid for by an oil industry lobbyist telling Americans “more CO2 results in a greener earth” would be almost funny if it weren’t so depressing. Read the rest of this entry »
Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes – 4°C by 2060
28/9/2009 Guardian The Met Office’s study warns global warming could result in a rise of 4C by 2060. Read the rest of this entry »
News of non-violent actions to close down coal fired power plants
Switch off hazelwood. Read the rest of this entry »
A holistic approach to climate change by Andy Coghlan
26/9/2009 New Scientist A UNIQUE approach to helping farmers and communities in poor countries adapt to the destructive effects of climate change seems to be paying off. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change may trigger earthquakes and volcanoes
23/9/2009 New Scientist FAR from being the benign figure of mythology, Mother Earth is short-tempered and volatile. Read the rest of this entry »
Prehistoric farmers cleared of carbon crimes
27/9/2009 New Scientist OUR ancient ancestors are off the hook about contributing to climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Population: Overconsumption is the real problem – Fred Pearce
27/9/2009 New Scientist THERE is a pervading myth that efforts to fight climate change and other environmental perils will be to no avail unless we “do something” about population growth. Read the rest of this entry »
Africa’s burning charcoal problem
26/9/2009 BBC Focus on Africa Magazine, Tanzania. Read the rest of this entry »
GLOBAL population growth has slowed significantly, but it hasn’t stopped.
25/9/2009 News Scientist By 2050 there may be about 35 per cent more people on Earth than there are today. Read the rest of this entry »
Better World 7 billion and counting- The population delusion
25/9/2009 New Scientist THINK of the biggest crowd you’ve ever been in – perhaps 50,000 in a sports stadium. Read the rest of this entry »
World consumption plunges planet into ‘ecological debt’, says leading thinktank
25/9/2009 Guardian Rich nations are still gobbling up the world’s resources despite the recession. Read the rest of this entry »
EU in tussle over CO2 emissions
25/9/2009 BBC The European Commission is considering pursuing a legal fight with the EU’s top court over management of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Read the rest of this entry »
China and India are leading the way. Yes, I’m optimistic – Nicholas Stern
24/9/2009 Guardian This week’s summit on climate change at the United Nations in New York has given a strong boost to the negotiations Read the rest of this entry »
Surviving Kyoto’s ‘do or die’ summit – VIEWPOINT by Graciela Chichilnisky
15/9/2009 BBC Global warming is the first truly global problem that needs all nations to work together in order to limit its impact, says carbon markets expert Graciela Chichilnisky. Read the rest of this entry »
Bid to protect soils so they continue to store CO2
24/9/2009 BBC A strategy to protect the health of England’s soils and ensure they continue to store carbon dioxide, will be published by the government later. Read the rest of this entry »
Desert dust storm chokes Sydney
23/9/2009 BBC A large stretch of Australia’s east coast, including the largest city Sydney, has been shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert outback. Read the rest of this entry »
China announces pledge to curb carbon emissions
23/9/2009 Guardian The world inched closer to an elusive deal to combat climate change yesterday, when China, the world’s biggest polluter, made its most substantial commitment yet to curb its carbon emissions and invest in clean energy. Read the rest of this entry »
Thinning glaciers driving polar ice loss, satellite survey finds
23/9/2009 Guardian ArcScientists have used data from Nasa’s Ice, Cloud and and land Elevation Satellite to piece together a picture of the changing fortunes of glaciers on the ice sheets. Read the rest of this entry »
The Liberal Democrats threw their weight behind the 10:10 climate change campaign today
23/9/2009 Guardian .. as they demanded “savage cuts” in Britain’s carbon emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
(President Hu Jintao)Hu’s talking – who’s listening?
22/9/2009 BBC “It depends…” Read the rest of this entry »
‘Millions at risk’ as deltas sink’
22/9/2009 BBC Most of the world’s major river deltas are sinking, increasing the flood risk faced by hundreds of millions of people, scientists report. Read the rest of this entry »
China and India expected to seize initiative at New York climate talk
22/9/2009 Guardians The exterior of the United Nations headquarters in New York where climate talks will take place ahead of the summit in Copenhagen. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change – where the centre leads – Viewpoint Jose Maria Figueres, Juan Mayr and Marina Silva
22/9/2009 BBC This week sees a series of meetings that could create the right conditions for achieving a new global treaty on climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Urgent action’ needed on climate – UN Sec General
22/9/2009 BBC UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for urgent action on climate change, saying negotiations on reducing emissions were proceeding too slowly. Read the rest of this entry »
Geoengineering: Such drastic climate therapy could make things worse – James Lovelock
20/9/2009 Guardian The idea of serious scientists and engineers gathering to discuss schemes for controlling the world’s climate would a mere 10 years ago have seemed bizarre, or something from science fiction. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic North-east sea Passage trail blazers make history
20/9/2009 BBC Two German ships have become the first Western commercial vessels to navigate the Northeast Passage – a shipping route which goes from Asia to Europe around the Russian Arctic. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate deal in peril, says Brown
20/9/2009 BBC The climate deal planned for Copenhagen in 10 weeks’ time is in grave danger of failure, the prime minister has said. Read the rest of this entry »
We saved the economy; now for the world – Editorial Comment
20/9/2009 Observer .There is a fault line between the developed and developing worlds over attitudes to carbon emissions. Read the rest of this entry »
Warming Arctic ‘halts migration’
19/9/2009 BBC Milder winters in the Arctic region have led to fewer Pacific brants, a species of sea goose, migrating southwards, say researchers. Read the rest of this entry »
Better world: Eat more plants
18/9/2009 New Scientist There are two good reasons for eating more fruit and vegetables in place of meat: it’s better for you and it’s better for the environment. Read the rest of this entry »
Better world: Pimp your house
18/9/2009 New Scientist Our homes account for around a third of our carbon emissions, so every eco-warrior should try to make their pad a low emission one. Read the rest of this entry »
Fishing report hits bottom by Richard Black
18/9/2009 BBC How much do you know about the splendid alfonsin? Read the rest of this entry »
Scotland unveils first carbon budget linking emissions with spending
18/9/2009 Guardian EnvironmentCarbon emissionsScotland unveils world’s first carbon budget. Read the rest of this entry »
Pause in Arctic’s melting trend. by Richard Black
18/9/2009 BBC This summer’s melt of Arctic sea ice has not been as profound as in the last two years, scientists said as the ice began its annual Autumn recovery.(Ed. this is natural variation but the long-term warming is still progressing). Read the rest of this entry »
Green groups urging joint action
18/9/2009 BBC Eight of the UK’s leading environmental groups have joined forces to urge political parties to adopt a joint approach on green issues. Read the rest of this entry »
World will ‘cool for the next decade’
12/9/2009 New Scientist FORECASTS of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctica’s hidden plumbing revealed
12/9/2009 New Scientist THE first complete map of the lakes beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets reveals the continent’s secret water network is far more dynamic than we thought. Read the rest of this entry »
Reasons to be optimistic for the future
12/9/2009 New Scientist WE HUMANS have a natural tendency to believe that our own generation is living in extraordinary times. Read the rest of this entry »
Doctors warn on climate failure by Richard Black
16/9/2009 BBC Failure to agree a new UN climate deal in December will bring a “global health catastrophe”, Read the rest of this entry »
Chinese government adviser warns that 2C global warming target is unrealistic
17/9/2009 Guardian Don’t expect China to keep global warming below 2C, a senior government adviser warned in Beijing today at the launch of an influential report on the nation’s prospects for low-carbon growth. Read the rest of this entry »
Ocean surfaces have warmest summer on record, US report finds
17/9/2009 Guardian The world’s ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre said today. Read the rest of this entry »
REALITY – Carbon emissions in 2000 up 12% on 1990 + in 2003 up another 7% on 2000
12/9/2009 New Scientist Carbon emissions in 2000 were up 12% on 1990 + in 2003 up another 7% on 2000. Read the rest of this entry »
This professor of denial can’t even answer his own questions on climate change – George Monbiot
15/9/2009 Guardian Creationists and climate change deniers have this in common: they don’t answer their critics. Read the rest of this entry »
Environment10:10 climate change campaign Local councils and police sign up to 10:10
15/9/2009 Guardian Cambridge, Nottingham and Coventry councils and Cheshire police have signed up to the 10:10 climate change campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
Boris Johnson ups carbon footprint by courtesy flight to New York
15/9/2009 Guardian Boris Johnson will today help out British Airways’s commercial interests by speaking out against using video conferencing as a way of doing business Read the rest of this entry »
Costly trip for tonnes of rubbish
15/9/2009 BBC Moving waste from Skye to a landfill site near Falkirk resulted in one of the costliest disposals in Scotland, Read the rest of this entry »
Whitehall green drive ’saves £7m’ (Ed. classic drop in the ocean?)
15/9/2009 BBC The government has saved £7m in the last year by making its departments greener, the Cabinet Office says. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dig for Victory’ revived in plan for allotments on private land
14/9/2009 Guardian An ambitious programme to create allotments on under-used private country estates will be proposed tomorrow in a scheme that borrows the wartime rallying slogan Dig for Victory. Read the rest of this entry »
Hurricanes in the Atlantic are more frequent than at any time in the last 1,000 years
13/8/2009 BBC - according to research just published in the journal Nature. Read the rest of this entry »
German ships blaze Arctic trail – Asia to Europe by North-East passage
12/9/2009 Guardian Two German merchant ships are sailing from Asia to Europe via Russia’s Arctic coast, having negotiated the once impassable North East Passage. Read the rest of this entry »
Where do Britain’s carbon emissions come from? – Guardian Datablog
11/9/2009 Guardian If you ever wanted evidence of Britain’s decline as a coal burning, manufacturing nation and transformation
into a car-based consumer society which depends on others for our goods, this is it. Read the rest of this entry »
Europe must pay €15bn in climate aid, says top climate official
11/9/2009 Guardian Rich countries should be paying around €100bn (£88bn) a year by 2020 to cover the cost of climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries- Read the rest of this entry »
Survey shows -UK climate scepticism more common UK climate scepticism more common
11/9/2009 BBC The British public has become more sceptical about climate change over the last five years, according to a survey.
Twice as many people now agree that “claims that human activities are changing the climate are exaggerated”. Read the rest of this entry »
France set to impose carbon tax
910/9/2009 BBC French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans for a new carbon tax aimed at combating global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
US and China to unveil joint plan to ‘take over’ cleantech market
10/9/2009 Guardian Under the plan, money would be used to expand China’s solar, wind, carbon capture and smart-grid markets. Read the rest of this entry »
Elimination of food waste could lift 1bn out of hunger, say campaigners
9/9/2009 Guardian Eliminating the millions of tonnes of food thrown away annually in the US and UK could lift more than a billion people out of hunger worldwide, experts claim. Read the rest of this entry »
A green deal for rich and poor nations – Comment by Helen Clark
9/9/2009 GuardianA few months ago, Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, stated explicitly that the continent’s future depends on what comes out of the Copenhagen climate change negotiations. Read the rest of this entry »
The UK may have to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 90% by 2050 so the aviation industry can grow
9/9/2009 BBC That is the warning from the government’s official climate advisers, the Climate Change Committee (CCC). Read the rest of this entry »
Gordon Brown turns down heat and Peter Mandelson gets on his bike to support 10:10 campaign
8/9/2009 Guardian Gordon Brown will be turning the heating down in Downing Street; Lord Mandelson plans to cycle more; Oliver Letwin is installing solar water heating and Nick Clegg is considering eating less meat. Read the rest of this entry »
David Miliband sets out to shock on global warming tour
8/9/2009 Guardian David Miliband will address EU, French, Swedish and Danish foreign ministries. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate deal is ‘in the balance’
8/9/2009 BBC David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner and Carl Bildt aim to push the talks forward. Read the rest of this entry »
Scots emissions ‘down by fifth’
8/9/2009 BBC Scottish greenhouse gas emissions fell by almost a fifth between 1990 and 2007, official figures suggest. Read the rest of this entry »
Seas ‘threaten 20m in Bangladesh’
7/9/2009 BBC Up to 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh are at risk from sea-level rise in the coming decades, according to new research. Read the rest of this entry »
Japan vows big climate change cut Japan vows big climate change cut
7/9/2009 BBC Japan’s next leader has promised a big cut in greenhouse gas emissions, saying he will aim for a 25% reduction by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. Read the rest of this entry »
My battle to cut carbon: a baffling, frustrating path to a more honest life Madeleine Bunting
7/9/2009 Guardian The thinker Amitai Etzioni comes up with a useful concept in the current edition of Prospect magazine when he talks of “moral megalogues” – mass dialogues over right and wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
Leading scientist calls on religious leaders to tackle climate change
7/9/2009 Guardian President of the British Science Association, Lord May, says faith groups could lead policing of social behaviour. Read the rest of this entry »
Harrabin’s Notes: How best to spend $250bn to reduce climate change
6/9/2009 BBC In his regular column, the BBC’s environment analyst Roger Harrabin draws on his experience of a quarter of a century reporting the environment to assess the thesis of two veteran environmentalists who believe the Copenhagen climate
meeting will not deliver results. Read the rest of this entry »
Hijacked by Climate Change – Audio clip of Richard Black BBCRadio 4
27Hijacked by Climate Change – Audio clip of Richard Black BBCRadio 4
John Vidal on the effects of climate change in east Africa
4/9/2009 Guardian We met Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima last week in the bone-dry, stony land close to the Ethiopia-Kenya border. Read the rest of this entry »
The true meaning of climate change by Mike Hulme
4/9/2009 New Scientist Climate change is everywhere. Not only is the physical climate changing, but the idea of climate change is now active across the full range of human endeavours. Read the rest of this entry »
Geoengineering is no longer unmentionable
4/9/2009 New Scientist Most people and nations now recognise the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate change will cost much more than UN thinks
4/9/2009 New Scientist KEY number in the struggle to tackle global warming is flawed. Read the rest of this entry »
World’s climate could cool first, warm later because of natural fluctuations – by Fred Pearce
4/9/2009 New Scientist Forecasts of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter. Read the rest of this entry »
India’s greenhouse gas emissions will more than triple over the next two decades
5/9/2009 BBC India’s greenhouse gas emissions will more than triple over the next two decades, a report has projected. Read the rest of this entry »
The Maldives aims to reduce its CO2 emissions substituting coconuts for fertiliser.
4/9/2009 BBC The “biochar” is a charcoal made from bio-wastes such as coconut shells. Read the rest of this entry »
Arctic ‘warmest in 2,000 years’ Arctic ‘warmest in 2,000 years’
3/9/2009 BBC Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals. Read the rest of this entry »
Entire cabinet signs up to 10:10 climate change campaign
4/9/2009 Guardian The 10:10 campaign to cut carbon emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 launched at the Tate Modern on Tuesday 1 September 2009 Read the rest of this entry »
Greenland: a dangerously melting world – 3min slideshow
4/9/2009 Guardian Click on http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audioslideshow/2009/sep/02/10-10-climate-change-greenland
John Vidal on the effects of climate change in east Africa
4/9/2009 Guardian We met Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima last week in the bone-dry, stony land close to the Ethiopia-Kenya border. Read the rest of this entry »
Scottish households throw away a billion pounds worth of food a year
3/9/2009 BBC … according to new report into eating habits. Read the rest of this entry »
How global warming sealed the fate of the world’s coral reefs
3/9/2009 Guardian Animal, vegetable and mineral, a pristine tropical coral reef is one of the natural wonders of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Make the CO2 cuts count by Myles Allen
3/9/2009 Guardian The dash for 10:10 may look like a heroic failure if it masks where the real risks from emissions lie. Read the rest of this entry »
“Geo-engineering is not an alternative to emissions reduction.”
2/9/2009 BBC report by Richard Black – So not Plan A, then. “Do we need it? Maybe.” So perhaps not Plan B either. Read the rest of this entry »
A new environmental campaign, backed by a variety of businesses and celebrities, is launched.
3/9/2009 BBC Organisers of the campaign, 10:10, aim to get people in the UK to reduce their carbon footprint by 10% in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »
Climate camp targets BP oil plan Climate camp targets BP oil plan.
3/9/2009 BBC Climate Camp protesters have made energy giant BP their latest target by protesting against its plans to extract oil from tar sands in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
UN Secretary warns of climate change – video from Arctic
3/9/2009 BBC Click http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8234915.stm
Climate targets ‘will kill coral’
2/9/2009 BBC byRichard Black - Current climate targets are not enough to save the world’s coral reefs – and policymakers urgently need to consider the economic benefits they bring. Read the rest of this entry »
Franny Armstrong: ‘If you’re not fighting climate change or improving the world, you’re wasting your life’
2/9/2009 Guardian ’It amazes me that my life is so much more meaningful than what was planned for it. Read the rest of this entry »