The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new study of nations’ vulnerability to the impacts of global warming found Canada was the most secure, while the Comoros Islands are least equipped to deal with future dangers.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Australia was urged today to "think big" on climate change and to adopt without delay a broad-based greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme in as many industries as possible, including the energy and transport sectors
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A "climate change witness" is warning that ice climbing in Scotland could be confined to the history books.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mirror Science Editor Mike Swain has blogged about a future Londoners could face if climate change isn't tackled.
Travel Rants Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the travel industry does not care about climate change, and a recent survey highlighted by Travel Weekly and undertaken by the Institute of Travel and Tourism confirms my suspicions. The survey highlighted that only 34% of travel agencies think travel has a role to play [...]
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Source: IRIN Experts under the leadership of former UK prime minister Tony Blair have prepared a report described as a "useful balm applied at the right moment to tense muscles" in an attempt to crack a global deal on climate change in international talks ahead of the upcoming G8 summit in Japan, according to a global warming policy analyst.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Reuters By William Schomberg BRUSSELS, July 4 (Reuters) - The United States must take another step towards a global climate change pact when major industrialised countries meet in Japan next week, the head ...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: IRIN Eight South Asian nations have adopted an environmental action plan to mitigate against the impact of climate change in the region.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
A group of islands with the potential to develop into a tourist paradise has been named as the country least equipped to withstand the effects of climate change.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Reuters July 4 (Reuters) - Australia, one of the world's top carbon emitters per person, will unveil an emissions trading scheme later this year, which it hopes will help cut the country's carbon footprint ...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The white contour lines illustrate the expected maximum pH decrease of average surface ocean waters in the future (in pH units) as a function of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions (in petagrams of carbon) and release time (in years). Click to...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Image from jpctalbot At the risk of gross oversimplification, let me start by revealing the Climate Change Risk report 's two main takeaways: Avoid living in most parts of Africa if you're especially risk averse (75 percent of the world's 20 most vulnerable countries are found there) and move to Canada to best hedge your bets. The Comoros Islands: most at risk The riskiest location by far, as
MATTER MAGAZINE (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Kyoto Protocols expire in 2012. CEOs around the world are already planning for it. Last month, more than 100 executives put together an outline of policy recommendations for managing climate change. They presented this outline the Japanese Prim Minister, Yasuo Fukuda. Fukuda is currently planning for the next G-8 summit, which will be held this month, in July. This move isn’t just greenwashing...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Democracy Now Groundbreaking Lawsuit Accuses Big Oil of Conspiracy to Deceive Public About Climate Change Attorney Stephen Susman helped file a groundbreaking lawsuit earlier this year on behalf of 400 Inupiat villagers in the Alaskan town of Kivalina who are being forced to relocate because of flooding caused by global warming. The suit accuses twenty oil, gas and electric companies, including ExxonMobil,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
South Asian environment ministers agree on joint measures to tackle climate change.
