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Obama unleashes climate change Twitter rampage
President’s Twitter feed takes climate deniers to task and calls for action to address rising greenhouse gas levels – but not everyone is impressed
Cameron’s fracking push ignores UK’s binding climate targets
Prime Minister’s support for fracking does not explain how it can be reconciled with UK decarbonisation targets
Tony Abbott accused of ‘wilful blindness’ on climate in first debate
Rudd and Abbott commit to 5% emissions reductions in Australia election debate, but say exceeding this would depend on international agreements
Bob Watson: IPCC must address slowdown in global warming
In the first of RTCC’s ‘Climate Leaders’ series, former UN climate science chief Bob Watson discusses forthcoming AR5 report and political implications
Australia can achieve 25% emissions cut by 2020, concludes report
A report has found that Australia can deliver on its Copenhagen pledge to cut emissions by 25% by 2020
Ambitious 2015 UN targets depend on strong domestic legislation
Ambitious domestic legislation needs to pave the way for an international treaty, legislators conclude
UK crowdfunding raises £3m for clean energy projects
£3m raised through crowdfunding alone has paid for solar panels on schools and houses, with more projects planned throughout 2013
Australia lacks resilience to climate change – report
Senate inquiry reports Australia is likely to witness extreme weather events with increasing intensity, but does not have the resilience to deal with it
‘Thousands’ of protestors could descend on UK fracking site
No Dash for Gas UK action group says it plans to send a new wave of campaigners to Balcombe as the anti-fracking movement gathers momentum
Congo’s rainforests and mountain gorillas face oil exploration threat
Virunga National Park, a UNESCO site that is home to critically endangered mountain gorillas faces exploitation by British oil company Soco International
Montreal Protocol may have prevented accelerated climate change
Although scientists didn’t know it at the time, the efforts back in 1987 to stop ozone depletion have prevented drastic changes to climate and hydrological cycles
Carbon tax takes centre stage as Australian election campaign starts
Election campaigning has kicked off in Australia with Tony Abbott pledging to make the abolition of the carbon tax his first priority
Fund managers worth $14tr say climate change influences investments
Investors are increasingly choosing where to invest based upon climate change considerations, a report by European Institutional Investors Group finds
New map charts spread of Indonesia’s forest fires
A new mapping resource from CIFOR shows the source of forest fires in Indonesia – and reveals the largest companies aren’t (wholly) to blame
New technology is the “Holy Grail” of clean hydrogen energy
A new technique using sunlight and mirrors to extract hydrogen gas from water could pave the way for the expansion of clean hydrogen energy
No plans for Marshall Islands climate evacuation says minister
Vice President Tony de Brum tells RTCC he’s confident islands will remain in existence, and says September climate summit in Majuro will be critical for ambition
North Dakota gas flares equal to a million extra cars on road
Natural gas flaring in North Dakota, which can be seen from space, has more than doubled to 30% since 2011
Cheap carbon offsets could strengthen aviation emissions goals
Cost of carbon offsetting so cheap that the aviation industry could adopt more ambitious reduction targets, says economist
Gina McCarthy says EPA aims to spark US economic growth
New EPA chief speaks of the challenges and opportunities of uniting the environment and the economy at her inaugural lecture at Harvard Law School
UK government unlikely to rethink “complacent” Arctic policies
The Foreign Office maintains its views on Arctic drilling, in spite of Environmental Audit Committee’s criticisms that it is “needlessly risky”