Alex Pashley
Alex previously covered the Andean region for the foreign press from Peru. He holds a Philosophy, Politics, Economics degree from Warwick University.Rethink 2C climate goal, urge world’s most vulnerable
NEWS: Twenty nations menaced by rising sea levels and severe droughts attack “inadequate” temperature target
Church of England announces fossil fuel divestment plans
NEWS: Religious body to withdraw £12 million from coal and tar sands as it opts for new ‘ethical’ low-carbon policy
Climate change could wipe out 1 in 6 of planet’s species
NEWS: Wildlife facing extinction set to accelerate every extra degree world overheats, report finds
Top Republican spars with EPA chief on Obama climate agenda
NEWS: Senate majority leader McConnell attacks legal footing of US headline carbon-cutting policy in Capitol Hill hearing
UK government ordered to cut air pollution
NEWS: Supreme court tells ministers to take “immediate action” to meet safe limits of nitrogen dioxide 25 years after original deadline
European air pollution has deadly trillion-dollar price tag – WHO
NEWS: Related deaths and diseases cost European economies $1.6 trillion a year, World Health Organization finds, calling on leaders to enact curbs
Japan eyes weak climate goals as nuclear plans fade
NEWS: Atomic energy’s role in power generation won’t recover to pre-Fukushima levels, opening door for coal and gas
On climate change, Obama don’t need no ‘anger translator’
BLOG: POTUS gets irate in skit on US inaction on climate change as he ribs critics at annual Correspondent’s Dinner at White House
Pleas to protect Arctic as polar summit begins
NEWS: Arctic Council states handed document signed by scientists and Nobel Laureates urging oil-free future as retreating ice caps attract exploration and industrial fishing
UK would be a climate leader with me in power, says Miliband
NEWS: Challenger for Number 10 Downing Street says current government has not taken global warming seriously
How do US Senators’ climate convictions square with voters?
BLOG: Congressmen more likely to believe in man-made global warming if states they represent too back its existence, study shows
Canada’s 2015 budget spurns climate change
NEWS: Harper Government omits any reference to global warming or carbon dioxide emissions, while oil gets 108
John Kerry urges climate focus, bids to avert Arctic melt
NEWS: Climate change to take centre stage as US assumes leadership of Arctic region’s governing body
8 things Earth Day ever did for the environment
BLOG: The first eco-protest to go viral turns 45 today. We look back at the environmental movement’s greatest achievements
Sweden takes Canada to task over tar sands pollution
NEWS: Country probed how it will curb climbing CO2 emissions from oil and gas sector as tar sands crude pumping set to double
US envoy Stern urges Canada to deliver UN climate pledge
NEWS: Be more like Mexico, John Kerry’s lead diplomat tells North American neighbour as it errs in posting pollution-reduction targets
Australia’s climate plans probed by UN partners
NEWS: World’s biggest emitters call out inadequate pollution-cutting targets as nations vet power of pledges to rein in global warming
UN: Gold, timber and ivory plunder stokes Congo conflict
NEWS: Billion-dollar smuggling trade propping up rebel groups in war-torn east of vast African country, reveals report
Climate deals make 2015 ‘biggest year since 1945’, says UN envoy
NEWS: Busy schedule to update Millennium Development Goals and finalise global CO2 pact make 2015 most important of post-war period, says Mary Robinson
G7 stresses climate risks to fragile states
NEWS: Bloc of world’s top developed nations sets up working group to examine climate change’s potential to destabilise weak countries