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John Kerry warns that Barack Obama's efforts to combat climate change could be undermined by the current economic crisis

Barack Obama, who pledged only last week to write a "new chapter in America's leadership" on the environment, could find his hands tied by the economic crisis, a leading figure in global climate change negotiations said yesterday. John Kerry, who will lead the Senate delegation to the UN's...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
Plans to protect forests could do the opposite, warns Friends of the Earth

International proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists warn. In a report to be published on Thursday, Friends of the Earth International (FOE) will argue that current...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008
Maldives seek to buy a new homeland

The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first democratically elected president...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-09-2008
Obama victory signals rebirth of US environmental policy

President-elect Obama will shred the Bush administration's energy policies and introduce a major climate change bill in an attempt to bring the US back into the international environment fold according to his senior advisers. Obama talked of the "planet in peril" in his acceptance speech...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Drought land 'will be abandoned'

Parts of the world may have to be abandoned because severe water shortages will leave them uninhabitable, the United Nations environment chief has warned. Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said water shortages caused by over-use of rivers and aquifers were already leading...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-01-2008
Australia's Stern review warns of runaway global warming

Carbon pollution levels are rising so fast that the world has no realistic chance of hitting ambitious climate targets set by Britain and the G8, an influential report to the Australian government has warned. The report, from economist Ross Garnaut , says existing carbon goals, such as those in Britain's...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-27-2008
Big Chinese companies join climate group

One of China's biggest companies will today become the first state-controlled business in the country to join an international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The powerful Climate Group will announce three Chinese members, including the majority state-owned China Mobile, which has 420...

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-23-2008
EU pledges to lead climate change fight despite financial crisis

The French president warned EU leaders they will face ridicule if they renege on their low-carbon targets

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-16-2008
Ian Traynor on the consequences of delay on Europe's climate change targets

Europe's credibility will be in tatters at the Copenhagen summit next year if its leaders cannot reach a deal beforehand on how to share the burden of climate change targets, writes Ian Traynor in Brussels

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-16-2008
EU leaders split on costs of meeting climate change targets

European Union leaders agree to stick to 20% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020, but divisions widen over how to share the cuts in the face of the global financial crisis

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-16-2008

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