Climate Change
Britain's carbon strategy 'up in smoke'
Published: 17 December 2007
Britain's plans to build new coal-fired power stations will completely undermine the Bali agreement on climate change, according to one of the world's leading climate scientists.
Bali Conference: World unity forces US to back climate deal
Published: 16 December 2007
Climate deal sealed after US U-turn
Published: 15 December 2007
Negotiators trying to agree a road map for a new international climate change deal finally managed to broker a compromise deal today after days of wrangling.
Bali talks critical in battle to stop planet warming
Published: 15 December 2007
United Nations climate talks were on the "brink of an agreement" last night that could help determine the amount by which the world warms for decades to come.
Al Gore: The world can't wait for George Bush
Published: 14 December 2007
Warning that corals could be wiped out by end of century
Published: 14 December 2007
Almost all the coral reefs in the world will disappear by the end of the century if global temperatures continue to rise as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a study has found.
Climate change puts fifth of Ireland's native plants on danger list
Published: 14 December 2007
The Irish government has launched a major campaign to protect the country's plant life following a report that one-fifth of native species are endangered by climate change. The authorities are to spend €15m (£11m) on a five-year educational campaign which will include advertising and public information in an effort to promote lifestyle change and improvements in business practice.
EU leads last-gasp effort to salvage climate-change deal
Published: 14 December 2007
Deadlocked UN talks on a timetable for an ambitious global climate change deal went to the wire last night in Bali. With only 24 hours left to secure an agreement, the EU led an unprecedented assault on the US delegation and its refusal to commit to binding targets on greenhouse gas emissions. The Europeans were joined by the Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore in heaping pressure on the US. He appealed to delegates to sign up to the timetable in the belief that a new administration would be in place in Washington in time to complete the process in two years' time.
US wary of setting 'hard numbers' on greenhouse gas emissions at Bali talks
Published: 13 December 2007
The high-level talks have begun. Ministers from some 120 countries were last night grappling with the detail of a road map to save the world from climate change. The UN secretary general flew into Bali yesterday to tell governments that "the eyes of the world are on them".
Climate costs 'fiddled' for third runway at Heathrow
Published: 13 December 2007
A "bogus accounting trick" has been used to justify building a third runway at Heathrow and ministers have seriously underestimated the environmental impact of the development, it was claimed yesterday.
Bali conference close to deal on saving forests
Published: 12 December 2007
A breakthrough on deforestation is set to be the first success of the UN climate talks in Bali. Diplomats are confident that the "road map" to a new climate-change treaty would contain a crucial reference to forests
Darling fights back with promise to be a champion of the environment
Published: 12 December 2007
Alistair Darling will try to repel a Tory offensive on the economy by announcing higher green taxes in his first Budget next spring.
Britain backs Guyana's rainforest plan
Published: 11 December 2007
Britain is backing an offer by the President of Guyana to preserve the country's entire 50 million acres of rainforest in return for sustainable development funds.
UN calls for 40 per cent cut in emissions by rich countries
Published: 11 December 2007
A draft United Nations plan to save the world from catastrophic climate change has called on rich nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40 per cent by 2020.
Global warming could wipe out four species of penguin
Published: 11 December 2007
The Arctic has its animal icon of global warming in the polar bear and now Antarctica has its own symbol of deadly climate change: the penguin. The survival of four species of penguin is directly threatened, according to new research by the WWF, as melting sea ice and stronger winds disturb nesting sites.
Huge rise in shipping sparks emissions alert
Published: 11 December 2007
Commercial shipbuilding may be a vestige of what it once was in the UK, but it is a different story in Shanghai, where along 5 miles of coastline on Changxin island the China State Shipbuilding Corporation is building the world's largest shipyard. The site is crucial to China's fight to claim the mantle of the world's largest shipbuilder from South Korea.
US plan to cut greenhouse gases by 70 per cent signals change of heart on climate change
Published: 09 December 2007
Key measures to tackle global warming have been approved in the US Congress, signalling the first crack in the granite face that the Bush administration has set against cutting the pollution that causes climate change.
Demonstrations across the globe mark Bali summit
Published: 08 December 2007
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are expected to take part in a global protest today to highlight the effects of climate change.
Humans making impact on climate change, says report
Published: 08 December 2007
The UK has already begun to feel the effects of man-made climate change, a Government-funded report says today.
Bali Conference: Diplomats warned that climate change is security issue, not a green dilemma
Published: 06 December 2007
Foreign policy-makers are waking up to the impact of climate change on conflict zones worldwide, and will add their voice to those calling on governments at the UN conference in Bali to act urgently.
With Howard gone, Australia signs up to Kyoto
Published: 04 December 2007
The news that Australia had signed up to the Kyoto protocol was greeted with applause on the first day of climate talks in Bali yesterday, leaving the US as the only developed nation not to ratify the pact.
Expanding tropics 'a threat to millions'
Published: 03 December 2007
Scientists have warned that the Earth’s tropical belt is expanding dramatically, with potentially grave consequences.
America the key as delegates arrive for Bali conference
Published: 03 December 2007
Thousands of delegates have arrived on the Indonesian island of Bali today for the largest-ever conference on climate change but the shadow of the world's biggest polluter, the US, hangs over any hopes of an effective deal emerging from the marathon talks.
Rich countries blamed as greenhouse gas emissions hit record
Published: 02 December 2007
Businessmen back urgent action to halt climate-change emissions
Published: 01 December 2007
An alliance of global businesses has called for a legally binding, international deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Yesterday 150 business leaders from countries including the US, Britain, China and Australia called on governments to agree a deal to tackle climate change at the United Nations conference starting on the Indonesian island of Bali next week.
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