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UN must probe ‘bias’, says former climate chief
19 Feb 2010
The UN body that advises world leaders on climate change must investigate an apparent bias in its report that resulted in several exaggerations of the impact of global warming, according to its former chairman.
UN climate chief stepping down to go private
19 Feb 2010
United Nations climate change chief Yvo de Boer said today that he has made the “difficult decision” to step down from his position.
BA to build first green jet-fuel plant in Europe
19 Feb 2010
British Airways says it has signed a partnership to build Europe's first green jet-fuel plant.
Korea floats carbon tax plan ... among others
19 Feb 2010
The Korean government is studying ways to introduce a carbon tax and other strong measures to reduce carbon emissions.
US looks at other ways to limit gas emissions
12 Feb 2010
With climate change legislation all but dead for the year, the United States is looking at scaled down ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
Rudd’s ETS heads for the Senate … again
12 Feb 2010
The Australian Government’s embattled emissions trading scheme is on its way back to the Senate for a third time.
How green policies could move UK out of the red
12 Feb 2010
Britain could slash its deficit by £12bn a year by scrapping tax breaks for carbon-intensive industries and halting investment in projects that will increase carbon emissions, according to a new study.
Pachauri toughs it out as pressure grows
12 Feb 2010
A couple of years ago, Rajendra Pachauri seemed destined for a scientist’s version of sainthood.
Website tracks daily climate change
12 Feb 2010
The United States Government is creating a climate service that will help communities to plan infrastructure to avoid weather-related problems.
Personal carbon credit deal earns couple $17
12 Feb 2010
A Pennsylvania couple who invested $58,000 in solar panels have earned the world's first carbon credit for reducing personal emissions … and are $17.20 better off.
Obama retreats from goal of cap-and-trade bill
5 Feb 2010
President Barack Obama said this week for the first time legislation that would require industries to pay for emissions of greenhouse gases might need to be separated from a more popular "green jobs" bill in the Senate.
Rudd and Abbott trade blows over climate schemes
5 Feb 2010
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has seized on an admission by a top economist commissioned to cost Opposition leader Tony Abbott's rival climate change plan that the country needs an emissions trading scheme.
UK will pay people for wind and solar power
5 Feb 2010
Britain soon will being paying homeowners who produce low-carbon power such as solar or wind.
55 nations set 2020 goals under Copenhagen Accord
5 Feb 2010
Fifty-five nations accounting for almost 80 per cent of world greenhouse gas emissions have set national goals for fighting climate change by a deadline in the Copenhagen Accord, the United Nations says.
I won't resign, says posh-suits Pachauri
5 Feb 2010
Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri has refused to apologise for a mistake in a 2007 climate change report and has hit out at his critics.
Firms to pioneer employee cap and trade scheme
5 Feb 2010
A small group of UK firms is poised to trial an innovative personal carbon trading scheme that promises to slash employees' carbon emissions by offering the greenest members of staff financial bonuses.
Sony, Nokia fight it out for green company titles
5 Feb 2010
Consumer electronics companies Sony and Nokia were among five international businesses named the greenest companies in the world in 2009.
It’s all America’s fault, says Bin Laden
5 Feb 2010
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has blamed the US and western industrial nations for climate change and called for a boycott of the dollar and US products to halt “the wheels of the American economy”.
Obama goes quiet on cap and trade
29 Jan 2010
President Barack Obama did not mention a cap and trade market in his annual State of the Union speech to Congress this week.
Australia presses on with 5% reduction target
29 Jan 2010
The Australian Government has committed to introducing an emissions trading scheme with a floating carbon market in 2012 regardless of what the rest of the world does to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Nations must not delay, says UN climate chief
29 Jan 2010
The failure of last month’s UN summit in Copenhagen to agree on ambitious and immediate global action to combat climate change means that the task has become more, not less urgent, the UN’s senior climate official says.
Tell the whole story, adviser tells scientists
29 Jan 2010
A failure by some scientists to be candid on the uncertainty of predicting the rate of climate change is to blame for fuelling scepticism about such predictions, according the British government's chief scientific adviser.
American opinion cools on global warming
29 Jan 2010
Public concern in the United States about global warming has dropped sharply since the autumn of 2008, according to a national survey released yesterday by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities.
Harsh winter actually a sign of climate change, says report
29 Jan 2010
North America’s extreme winter weather is in fact a sign of how climate change disrupts long-standing patterns, says a new report by the National Wildlife Federation.
Aussie Greens want $20b carbon tax to break ETS impasse
22 Jan 2010
The Australian Government has been asked by the Greens to back a $20 billion interim carbon tax proposal to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Obama climate plans under fire from all sides
22 Jan 2010
The chances of the US passing climate change legislation this year appear highly unlikely now the Democrats have lost their filibuster-proof Senate majority and a rejuvenated Republican party has stepped up efforts to block carbon legislation.
Cool heads prevail over Copenhagen, says De Boer
22 Jan 2010
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer has admitted that last month’s conference in Copenhagen was not a success, but said that “cool heads” are seeing it as a way to reach an international agreement on climate change.
IPCC says sorry over glacier melting conclusion
22 Jan 2010
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has expressed regret over “poor application of well-established procedures” in substantiating an estimated rate of recession and date for the disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers.
China seen as world carbon market leader
22 Jan 2010
China could become the world's largest market for environmental products, says the founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Richard Sandor.
New Rainbow Warrior will be super-green superyacht
22 Jan 2010
Environmental groups such as Greenpeace are renewing their fleets in response to growing ecological pressure on oceans and losses of their vessels at sea.
Big players, but most Indians unaware of climate change
22 Jan 2010
Although India has emerged as a key player in global climate negotiations, the average Indian remains unaware of climate change.
Copenhagen in crisis: Why it all comes down to China
18 Dec 2009
China will shape whatever deal comes out of Copenhagen as the UN climate change conference heads into its final day.
Ban urges leaders to act as hours tick away
18 Dec 2009
The outcome of climate change negotiations in Copenhagen hinges on the issues of emissions reductions and financing, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday.
UN shuts clean coal out of emissions trading
18 Dec 2009
The clean-coal industry has been shut out of the global emissions trading scheme at the Copenhagen climate change talks, dealing a blow to the UK, US and Australia.
Big business puts case for global action
18 Dec 2009
Global business leaders assembled at the Copenhagen summit have called for ambitious, global action on climate change.
If diplomacy fails, there is always the fantastic Plan B
18 Dec 2009
Just five years ago, anyone who talked of easing Earth's climate crisis by fertilising the seas with iron, scattering particles in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight or building a sunshade in space courted ridicule.
Most UK voters believe climate change is important
18 Dec 2009
Three in four British voters believe world leaders are on an important mission at the climate change conference in Copenhagen, according to a new Guardian/ICM poll.
IPCC winnings go to climate science scholars
18 Dec 2009
The Nobel Peace Prize will pay dividends in the developing world by funding scholarships for climate-science studies.
Copenhagen split as island states make stand
11 Dec 2009
A climate change stand led by the Pacific nation of Tuvalu has split the Copenhagen conference down the middle.
Leaked ‘Danish text’ pushes power for the rich
11 Dec 2009
The UN Copenhagen climate talks erupted after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations.
Forget US dollars, Stern tells China
11 Dec 2009
Top United States climate official Todd Stern dropped a bombshell in Copenhagen yesterday when he ruled out American financial help for China to meet any climate change commitments.
UN view: The talks are going well
11 Dec 2009
The United Nations says talks under way at the climate change conference in Copenhagen have entered the drafting phase towards reaching a final agreement.
Republicans plan conference counter-attack
11 Dec 2009
A Republican counter-delegation is forming to undermine the Obama administration's work on an international climate change agreement in Copenhagen.
Canada receives award of shame
11 Dec 2009
Canada has received an award at the Copenhagen climate conference – but not one to brag about.
UK’s richest man could pocket £1bn from trading
11 Dec 2009
Britain’s richest man, Lakshmi Mittal, majority owner of steel giant ArcelorMittal, could make more than £1 billion over the next two years from the European Union’s emissions trading scheme.
Carbon fraudsters rake in billions, say police
11 Dec 2009
Tax fraudsters have targeted the European Union’s carbon emissions trading system, pocketing about five billion euros, the Europol police agency says.
We can do a deal by June, says UN climate chief
4 Dec 2009
A new climate treaty can be ready by June next year, says the UN's chief climate negotiator, Yvo de Boer.
India comes to the party with emissions cut promise
4 Dec 2009
India has became the last of the ''big four'' polluters to reveal its opening hand in the lead-up to the climate change talks in Copenhagen next week.
Danes are going green for the big summit
4 Dec 2009
Danes will be on their best green behaviour when a much-anticipated climate conference brings thousands of foreign visitors to Copenhagen next week.
Denmark lures e-car owners with $40,000 tax break
4 Dec 2009
Is saving $40,000 at the showroom enough to get drivers behind the wheel of an electric car?
Battery subsidy scheme set for 'urgent' overhaul as costs run out of control
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced big changes to the government's battery subsidy scheme amid claims most of its $2.3 billion budget has been spent in just six months.
EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
Fri 19 Dec 2025
EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of its climate change webpages.
Verra cancels four tree planting projects in China. And starts reviews of 45 more projects
Tue 16 Dec 2025
“Multiple carbon projects in China are facing serious allegations regarding the authenticity of government approval documents."
France updates its 2050 carbon neutrality roadmap
Wed 17 Dec 2025
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, France released a revamped climate plan promising to phase out oil and gas and sharply increase electricity use.
Net-zero scenario is ‘cheapest option’ for UK, says energy system operator
Mon 15 Dec 2025
A scenario that meets the “net-zero by 2050” goal would be the “cheapest” option for the UK, according to modelling by the National Energy System Operator (NESO).
The ecological havens flourishing beneath power lines
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Initiatives to foster native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs are turning utility corridors into wildlife corridors.
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
12 Dec 2025
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’.
Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore and seabirds
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules.
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say.
Are rainforests now a cause of, rather than the answer to, climate change?
Mon 15 Dec 2025
A new study finds that Africa’s forests, responsible for one-fifth of global carbon removal, are beginning to generate carbon as the result of human activity.
Thousands of climate disasters are not included in official reports from Amazonian countries
12 Dec 2025
More than 12,500 extreme weather events impacted the Amazon and its population in 10 years, but countries have not generated enough information about it, according to a new scientific study.
UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says
11 Dec 2025
A key UN report on the state of the global environment has been "hijacked" by the United States and other countries who were unwilling to go along with the scientific findings, the co-chair has told the BBC.
