Climate Change News

It’s official – 2014 was the hottest year on record

NEWS: Record high temperatures in December confirmed 2014 as the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA reveal

NEWS: Agenda for this year’s Davos meeting focuses heavily on climate change, with UN carbon cutting deal on horizon

NEWS: Climate change makes Lake Chad fertile territory for extremism, experts say after Boko Haram massacre of up to 2,000 people

NEWS: Ed Miliband has declared his support for a net zero emissions goal that would put oil companies out of business

NEWS: Brussels leaders will meet on Monday to discuss strategy for raising global climate ambition ahead of UN talks

NEWS: On a tour of Sri Lanka and the Philippines, the Pope made clear he blames human activity for climate change

NEWS: As global coalition on poverty and climate launches, 15-year-old activists take their demands to the top

NEWS: While the authorities dump or burn rubbish, two businnesses in India’s Silicon Valley are using waste plastic to build roads

NEWS: The White House’s first ever methane rules for the oil and gas industry would help US curb global warming

NEWS: Rivals set out visions for a green Winter Olympics in 2022 as sustainable development rises up agenda

NEWS: Efforts to solve China’s water crisis − exacerbated by economic growth, climate change and a rising population – are having opposite effect

NEWS: Senator Bernie Sanders has tabled amendment to Keystone bill to accept the scientific consensus on climate change

NEWS: Campaigners call on Pope Francis to show his support for victims of climate change by taking on vested interests

NEWS: Demand for jewellery and booming gold prices poses threat to diverse tropical forests, study finds

NEWS: Massachusetts State College Building Authority issues US$94 million bond for plans branded “pathetic” by watchdog

NEWS: Ontario to join Quebec and British Columbia in enforcing price on fossil fuels, despite opposition from prime minister Harper

NEWS: Allowances traded at US$7-8 a tonne, a similar price to Europe’s emissions trading system

NEWS: Washington and Delhi likely to agree pact on renewables and HFCs, but little chance of any major climate deal say insiders

NEWS: An international team of researchers will boost food security for 300 million people in Nepal, India and Bangladesh

NEWS: Total decarbonisation by 2050 is “unrealistic”, says Saudi Arabia’s UN climate envoy