Climate Change News

UK set for driest September since records began

NEWS: Provisional Met Office figures suggest that this September will be UK’s driest since at least 1910

NEWS: Exploitation, habitat degradation and climate change blamed as numbers of lions, snakes and monkeys plummet

NEWS: Rising US carbon emissions pose a challenge to president Barack Obama’s climate leadership ambitions

NEWS: Solar PV capacity would need to increase fourfold to achieve ambitious targets

NEWS: Scientific review shows heatwaves in China, Japan, Korea and Australia were made more likely by global warming

NEWS: Incidence of forest and scrub fires has doubled in US since 1990s, say researchers

NEWS: Statoil and Saudi Aramco use New York summit to sell gas as a lower carbon climate change solution

INTERVIEW: Outgoing EU climate chief faces one last battle to assure her legacy as UN emissions deal looms

BLOG: Graffiti artist creates mural from London pollution to highlight need for cleaner transport

INTERVIEW: Ahead of the Conservative Party Conference, leading Tories tell RTCC where they stand on climate science, policy and scepticism

NEWS: National Green Tribunal revokes licence to clear forest, but clear threat remains to India’s ancient forest

ANALYSIS: A new consensus on the role of public and private funding for climate change emerged this week, but more cash is needed

SPEECH: Elders member and Nelson Mandela’s widow says lack of action on climate should serve as a reality check to governments

NEWS: Connie Hedegaard says Delhi does need to demonstrate progress on renewables and efficiency by 2015

ANALYSIS: The world’s superpowers have woken from their climate coma, but there is still much work to do towards a global deal

NEWS: It is climate change, not curbs on coal power, that will hurt the US economy, argues Gina McCarthy

NEWS: Peru and Djibouti say they have officially signed on to the UN’s treaty to reduce emissions prior to 2020

NEWS: Outcome of “coalgate” scandal grants temporary reprieve to ancient forests, but does not quench India’s thirst for coal

ANALYSIS: Known globally as a tireless defender of the rainforest, Marina Silva has a strong chance of becoming Brazil’s next president

NEWS: Pension funds, insurers and asset managers show an appetite for low risk, climate-friendly investments