Climate Change News

Social cost of carbon six times higher than thought – study

NEWS: It is worth taking more expensive measures to curb emissions, say scientists, to avoid hit to economic growth

NEWS: Lead US envoy says future of global climate governance is at stake during climate negotiations in 2015

ANALYSIS: Snap election offers unique opportunity to halt developments that menace the Great Barrier Reef and the climate

NEWS: Campaigner Priya Pillai was due to brief London MPs on proposed coal mine in Mahan forest

NEWS: California university was the wealthiest to cut ties with coal companies last May; 295 academics want oil and gas to go next

NEWS: Focus turns to State Department judgement after route of Keystone XL pipeline approved in supreme court

BLOG: Key dates for your diary in 2015, a year when the countries will come together and agree how to address climate change

NEWS: Scientists have identified another consequence of global warming that is likely to accelerate climate change still further

NEWS: A slumping oil price did not dampen enthusiasm for clean energy in 2014, as data shows global investment grew 16%

NEWS: Tignous and Cabu drew cartoons about climate, and worked with WWF and Greenpeace

NEWS: UN chief issues plea for governments to back ambitious set of sustainable development goals, due to be agreed in September

NEWS: Jos Debelke says Brussels is committed to climate leadership, but will ensure steel, cement industries get help to comply with regulations

ANALYSIS: Firefighters and regional politicians are calling on the prime minister to tackle climate change after a year of heatwaves

NEWS: New EPA regulations set to address potent powerful gases leaked from oil and gas industries

NEWS: Lower commodity prices have eased pressure on Egypt’s budget as it moves to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies by 2019

NEWS: Academics questioned the human influence on climate at India’s leading science conference this week

News: Latvia has made climate action a priority of its EU Council presidency, so where next for the bloc?

News: By the end of the century, five times as many Germans could die of heart disease triggered by high temperatures

NEWS: UK research shows which regional fossil fuel reserves are unviable if the world is to avoid catastrophic warming

NEWS: As oil price hits 5-year low, chief economist warns emissions could rise without government leadership