Climate Change News

US biodiesel fraudster faces 10+ years in jail

NEWS: EPA warns of severe penalties for undermining green transport policy, after 50-year-old runaway pleads guilty to charges

BLOG: Rolling coverage from the launch of the Pope’s call to all Catholics to respect the environment and tackle climate change

COMMENT: Pope Francis’ unequivocal call to arms will reverberate globally in acting on climate change says IIED’s Camilla Toulmin

NEWS: Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful latest to call for fracking ban, while Labour favourite and SNP also support moratorium

NEWS: More than 9,000 people flocked to Westminster to urge MPs to back action on global warming, in the largest ever demo of its kind

NEWS: Researchers find “ideological roots” for a false sense of understanding among US right wing faction

ANALYSIS: With land degradation soaring, climate strategists are looking beyond piecemeal projects to raise cash for conservation

NEWS: Despite renewables growth, top energy expert Yufeng Yang predicts slow reduction in China’s emissions 2030-2050

NEWS: US scientists have harnessed humidity in the lab to run a toy car and flashing light and say the technology could scale up

NEWS: Amazon country pins two-thirds of draft carbon-cutting target on halting deforestation, but critics question government’s resolve

NEWS: Not enough cash is flowing to boost resilience in the face of sea level rise and weather extremes, development banks warn

ANALYSIS: Dependent on petrol exports, the South American country is fraught with contradictions as it resists overhaul of fossil fuels

NEWS: Destruction of nature is a “crime” says Pontiff in leaked draft of encyclical; official version due out on Thursday

ANALYSIS: The International Energy Agency has published a special report on climate change: what does it tell us about energy emissions?

NEWS: Democrat hopeful lashes out at sceptics and says she’ll back growth of solar, wind and other green energies

NEWS: Former US Treasury chief Hank Paulson leads call for US politicians to take global warming seriously

NEWS: Government set to maintain plans to slash emissions and boost clean energy use in UN pledge due on June 17

NEWS: Global greenhouse gas emissions could peak by 2020 says influential agency if governments take radical steps now

CRIB NOTES JUNE 15-19: Papal encyclical, China INDC, EU green week & London climate march

BLOG: Climate talks are like pregnancy, Ethiopia is more climate-forward than Australia and God is on the climate’s side