UK third best country in the world for battling climate change, says report December 9, 2014 The UK has been one of the best countries in the world at combating the effects of climate change in 2014, according to the latest Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The report was put together by think tank Germanwatch and non-governmental organisation CAN Europe. It looked into the attempts by the world's 58 biggest [...]
Church of England urges Shell and BP to act over climate change through shareholder resolution December 4, 2014 The Church of England has submitted a shareholder resolution to Shell and BP, urging them to take more responsibility for their contribution towards climate change. The Church, which has a £9bn investment portfolio, challenged the companies to cut their carbon footprint. It wants to see the businesses run in a way that will aid the [...]
Climate change: Greenland’s ice sheet is melting faster than we realised September 29, 2014 Greenland's ice sheet – the second largest in the world – is more sensitive to climate change than was previously thought. The huge expanse of ice, which covers 1.7 million square kilometres, is roughly eight times the size of the United Kingdom. If all of it melted, it would raise the world's sea levels [...]
UN climate change summit: Cameron to focus on shale gas extraction September 23, 2014 Today, world leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron have gathered in New York for the UN climate change summit. UN leader Ban Ki-moon, who is hosting the event, said the talks are ‘not to talk, but to make history’. He has asked more than 100 global leaders to make pledges for cutting greenhouse gas [...]
How to stop climate change: Drop the hamburger September 1, 2014 Bad news, hamburger fans. New research shows that if we are going to have any chance of slowing down climate change, we must eat less meat. We tend to concentrate on practices such as fracking and emissions from coal-based power stations when we consider the prevention of climate change, but a paper published today [...]
Climate change increases risk of global food demand outstripping supply, study finds July 26, 2014 Researchers at Stanford University have found that global warming will significantly increase the risk of a major slowdown in the production of wheat and corn over the next two decades. By putting data about crops and weather into computerised climate models, they set out to estimate the chance that climate change would interfere with [...]
Climate change conference calls for an end to capitalism July 23, 2014 A climate change conference held in Venezuela involving roughly 130 green groups has ended with a call to end capitalism and reject carbon markets, reports RTCC. The UN-backed conference included organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund, Christian Aid and the Third World Network. Ending with the Margarita declaration, the conference was the largest of [...]
Don’t silence Lord Lawson: We can’t leave climate change policy to the scientists July 14, 2014 The row between former chancellor Lord Lawson and the BBC has escalated over the past week. In a letter to a green activist, the head of the Beeb’s Editorial Complaints Unit Fraser Steel has reportedly apologised for Lawson’s appearance on the BBC Today Programme to discuss climate change and the extensive flooding at the start [...]
Britons don’t feel enough is being done to fight climate change – report June 20, 2014 The majority of Britons do not believe that the government is doing enough to fight climate change, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan. Yet it seems that we aren't too clued up about what being eco-friendly means, ourselves. Of all the respondents who took part in the study, less than one in ten [...]
How climate change policies are hurting the world’s poor June 6, 2014 Government policies intended to reduce carbon dioxide are directly harming the poor in both the developing and developed world, according to a report released by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Energy sources that are not based on fossil fuels are making both power and food more expensive, the report argues. While the affluent remain [...]