Climate Change News

Backtracking from 2C goal abandons island states to the waves

ANALYSIS: Negotiators are already distancing themselves from the 2C goal, but it is too important to throw away

NEWS: Canberra’s climate approach branded “weak” and “risk” by influential German scientist

NEWS: After three strong quarters for investment in clean energy sources, 2014 is on track to recover from a two-year dip

NEWS: Green and centre-left MEPs are unconvinced by candidate Miguel Arias Cañete’s commitment to tackling climate change

COMMENT: Ditching the 2C goal is like doctors dithering over a critically ill patient, say Climate Analytics

NEWS: Green Climate Fund plans “resource mobilisation” meeting in German capital to hit US$10 billion target for 2014

NEWS: The British Medical Journal says Ebola deaths will “pale into insignificance” compared to mayhem caused by global warming

NEWS: Miguel Arias Canete declared his support for EU climate change goals, under fierce questioning from MEPs

NEWS: Vast ice sheet more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought, say scientists

NEWS: UK Conservative leader devotes one line in hour-long speech to climate change as he sets out election priorities

NEWS: Central European countries reject renewables and efficiency goals as part of EU’s 2030 climate package

NEWS: Incoming EU climate and energy chief faces rising opposition as MEPs prepare to question his appointment

NEWS: IEA hails major breakthrough as one unit of SaskPower’s Boundary Dam plant starts sucking up CO2

NEWS: India will cooperate with global efforts to phase out the potent greenhouse gases, prime minister Narendra Modi agrees

NEWS: Volatile fossil fuel prices are encouraging some businesses to source greener forms of power, says Grant Thornton report

NEWS: Emissions from 8,000 power plants and major industrial sites in 2013 were up 0.6% on the previous year, says Environmental Protection Agency

NEWS: The US will make climate change its top priority as chair of the Arctic Council, says US Arctic envoy

NEWS: Destroying mangrove forests will cost $2 billion a year up to 2050 and contribute to climate change, says UNEP

NEWS: More than 1,000 investors worth US$70 trillion have been challenged to show how they are managing climate risk

COMMENT: The New York climate summit was a first step says Mohamed Adow. We should stop asking what it achieved, and begin walking