Climate Change News

Mandarin Oriental hotel chain linked to Indonesia forest destruction

NEWS: Activists launch She’s Not A Fan campaign, say efforts to protect Indonesia’s forests are being obstructed by Astra Agro Lestari

BLOG: Malaysian palm oil lobby offers prize for essays persuading people the sector does not drive deforestation

NEWS: Oil major agrees at AGM to reveal its exposure to carbon risk, but presses ahead with controversial Arctic plans

NEWS: European heavyweights say global economy must be decarbonised by 2100, back carbon markets to deliver cuts and growth

NEWS: Satellite and radar studies show that twin forces causing the vast ice shelf to thin and become less stable

NEWS: Admiral Papp says conditional approval to explore polar waters just ‘another step’, as ‘kayaktivists’ protest in Seattle

NEWS: Governments could cut 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions at a stroke if they stopped subsidising oil, gas and coal

NEWS: Reactions to university rejection of coal and tar sands range from “great leadership” to handing back degrees in disgust

BLOG: Generating your own supply of electricity is straightforward and cheap – so easy that RTCC editor Ed King had a go

ANALYSIS: Business chiefs will showcase low carbon plans this week, but concerns persist they are giving cover to polluting sectors

NEWS: President of 2015 climate summit says he’s encouraged by countries backing calls to radically cut CO2 emissions in second half of century

ANALYSIS: Is Greenpeace crackdown a plan of Modi government to stifle alternative voices under the cover of national interest?

NEWS: World authority on global warming moves to add shifts in population and economies in its forecasts in Vienna meeting

ANALYSIS: Experts are divided over the extent of an overheating planet’s role in the South American country’s chronic dry spell

NEWS: Analysis published ahead of a vote in Norway’s parliament argues coal is a financial and climate liability to be avoided

NEWS: Harper government says plan is “fair and ambitious”, but critics point to reliance on carbon credits and inaction on tar sands

NEWS: Amid mixed results for fossil fuel divestment campaigns, Oxford alumni are threatening to hand back their degrees

ANALYSIS: Academic Stephan Lewandowsky says barrage of criticism has seeped into research, leading experts to frame climate facts as uncertain

NEWS: Developed countries must lead emissions curbs and make good on finance pledge say major emitters key to climate pact

NEWSLETTER: All you need to know from the last seven days of international climate change and energy politics