COP17 climate summit ends in success after adopting EU-sponsored roadmap towards legally-binding global emission targets.
Breaking news, tweets, interviews, webcasts and gossip from the COP17 climate talks in Durban.
Breaking news, tweets, interviews, webcasts and gossip from the COP17 climate talks in Durban.
The world’s chief climate scientist has told RTCC that he is worried about the lack of any urgency among delegates at COP17.
Extreme weather and climate change are already endangering food security and must be addressed by COP17 according to Oxfam International.
With COP17 almost underway, RTCC’s Tierney Smith speaks to the leading activist and green groups to find out if they’re hopeful of a new dawn in Durban.
The runners and riders are now converging on Durban. RTCC’s John Parnell looks at ten of the key figures in the global fight against climate change.
Two-year-old emails linked to University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit have been posted on a Russian website, echoing 2009 ‘Climategate’ furore.
RTCC takes a look at the final market-based instrument under the Kyoto Protocol, Joint Implementation.
Vulnerable countries have presented a united front ahead of COP17 in Durban, calling for a second term of the Kyoto Protocol with a legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions.
Ahead of the COP 17 Climate Summit in Durban, the South African high commissioner has slammed the Canadian government for its opposition to a Kyoto extension.
In the first of a two-part series Harald Heubaum, Lecturer in Global Energy and Climate Policy at SOAS examines a treaty that polarises opinion like few others.
Less than two weeks before the Climate Summit in Durban, UK Energy Minister, Greg Barker raises further doubts over what the conference will be able to achieve.
RTCC explains the workings of one of the more controversial products of the international climate negotiations
Investment opportunities in energy efficiency remain strong despite the current financial crisis, and could offer attractive returns over the coming decade, say sector experts.
Watchdog predicts less energy security and more CO2 emissions in a diminished nuclear scenario
RTCC provides the answers to all the questions you may have about the Kyoto Protocol – the most famous piece of climate legislation in the world.
£34bn project receives cross party support as US and China plans falter
G20 leaders call for “balanced outcome in Durban” and set sights on eradicating fossil fuel subsidies but makes no statement on Kyoto Protocol
Just weeks ahead of the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Durban, a group island states most vulnerable to climate change have lashed out at rich nations for suggesting a climate deal could wait till 2018 calling it “both environmentally reckless and politically irresponsible.”