RTCC General News
Great Rift Valley summit set to unlock clean energy investment
Experts estimate Great Rift Valley could generate 15,000MW from geothermal sources alone
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We are looking for a creative and precise English-language journalist to join our team reporting on the latest climate & energy developments around the world
2013 climate change calendar
Key climate change and sustainability dates for your diary in 2013
Avaaz launch drive to boost US climate finance contributions
COP18: Campaign group calling on US citizens to email the White House and urge Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to offer more climate funding in Doha
COP18: Who to follow on twitter at the Doha climate change talks
RTCC’s definitive list of who to follow at the next round of the UN climate talks
COP18: 2013 Rio Conventions Calendar launch
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres will be guest of honour at the launch of the 2013 Rio Conventions Calendar, which takes place at COP18 on Wednesday 28 November.
Climate Live: Oxfam warns climate change effect on food prices is underestimated and UN climate talks conclude in Bangkok
The consequences of extreme weather have not been factored into estimates of global food prices properly warns Oxfam and the UNFCCC talks end today with news of progress on a second Kyoto period expected later.
Climate Live: Global geoengineering scheme would cost $5bn a year; Shell gets green light for Arctic drilling
The costs of a geoengineering scheme to deflect solar radiation has been estimated in a new scientific paper; UN Bangkok climate talks continue and Shell is told it can drill tests wells off the coast of Alaska but full scale drilling will have to wait till its spill response plan is approved.
Climate Live: UN climate change talks continue in Bangkok; Antarctica sitting on mass methane stores; Water stress could render Gaza strip “unliveable”
The UN talks look to lay the path for a new period of emission cuts for rich countries under the Kyoto protocol as issues of finance and formative discussions on the Durban Platform, a global deal on greenhouse gas reductions begin.
Climate Live: Shell asks for more time on Arctic drilling, Formula E electric car racing series announced
After struggling with logistical problems all summer, Shell wants more time to drill off the coast of Alaska. A new electric car racing series will launch in 2014.
Climate Live: Australia to join EU carbon trading scheme, Arctic sea ice reaches historic low
Planned Australian emissions trading platform will be integrated with the EU system; Predicted low in sea ice cover observed during the weekend.
Climate Live: Romney energy plan gets cold reception, Greenpeace parks under Arctic oil rig and the city turning cemeteries into nature reserves
Environmentalists criticise total absence of climate change considerations in the Romney-Ryan energy plan and Greenpeace chief Kumi Naidoo and five other activists position themselves underneath Russia’s first Arctic oil rig.
Climate Live: Coal scandal engulfs Indian politics; US energy related CO2 emissions fall, Porpoises hold-up German wind farm
Fears that noise pollution could interfere with the porpoise population hold up offshore wind farm, CO2 from US power plants drops as gas replaces coal and Keystone XL pipeline construction faces renewed protests.
Climate Live: NASA to develop “green rocket fuel”, US media fail to link heatwave and climate change
NASA will spend $45m to develop alternative rocket fuels, Germany’s Chancellor Merkel to visit Canadian climate scientists but Prime Minister Harper opts out and US media drops climate change from its heatwave coverage.
Climate Live: Brazilian dam cancelled, Bill Gates’ solar powered toilet, mummification and climate change
One of the world’s largest hydropower projects has been blocked by the courts, Bill Gates back solar powered toilet that could save 1.5m lives a year and how climate change led one society to mummification.
Climate Live: Toyota to launch hydrogen fuelled car in 2015 and Greenpeace steps up Arctic campaign
Growing volumes of freshwater in the oceans linked to increased power of tropical storms and Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell car could hit the market before electric vehicles are fully matured.
Climate Live: Are diamonds the new weapon of choice for geoengineering? Romney’s running mate’s environmental record unveiled
Diamond particles could be a safer geoengineering aerosol than sulphur and Paul Ryan’s fossil fuel subsidy packed budget proposal and anti-environment voting record cause concern.
Climate Live: UNFCCC releases report on equity from 2012 Bonn talks & we find out how Heathrow is cutting its Olympic emissions
Decision expected on ‘equity’ at COP18 talks in Doha, Europe’s busiest airport explains how it is cutting emissions and Donald Trump tells us to ‘stay positive in this tough climate’
Climate Live: July 2012 hottest month on record for USA, Kerry compares Iran’s ‘Nukes’ to climate change and tea prices set to soar
New data from NOAA shows that July 2012 was the hottest month on record for the US
Climate Live: Todd Stern denies USA has changed climate policy & Senate Leader Harry Reid says climate sceptics on ‘other side of reality’
USA climate chief Todd Stern says his comments over the UNFCCC’s 2 degrees target have been misunderstood