UN Climate Change News, 2 December 2019 - The UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid (to 13 December) kicked off today, with urgent calls to make serious progress on climate action over the…
350 experts call on PM to address president’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ claims.
Boris Johnson is being urged by 350 leading climate researchers to robustly challenge Donald Trump on his “…
The Madrid Climate Change Conference - COP 25 - will bring the world together to consider ways to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Taking place from 2 to 13 December in Madrid,…
Geneva– On the eve of a year in which nations are due to strengthen their Paris climate pledges, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report warns that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by…
Even if countries meet commitments made under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2 degrees Celsius global temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, leading to even wider-…
Scientists from the University of Manchester are creating a blueprint to help bands and pop stars to perform live and tour the world without contributing to climate change.
It's after the Tyndall…
Cash will be spent on green energy projects, and reforestation and sustainable forestry schemes, flatpack giant reveals
Furniture giant IKEA has today announced a major cash injection into its '…
CARVER — Plummeting cranberry prices and the country’s ongoing trade wars have America’s cranberry industry eyeing a possible new savior: solar power.
Some cranberry farmers in Massachusetts, the…
Global Wind Organisation (GWO) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) have signed a partnership agreement to highlight the importance of safety, training and job creation to power wind energy…
The Environment Investigation Agency has released a report revealing that supermarkets are continuing to churn out a large amount of plastic a year.
Despite commitments to cut down on plastic…
Raad Al Haris, an energy advisor to the prime minister, announced the idea at the Energy Transition in the Arab World conference held in Berlin this week. Al Haris also revealed the Iraqi government…
The EU Commission’s big goals for offshore wind – between 230 and 450 GW by 2050 – are achievable provided the right investments in electricity grids and Governments take the right approach to…
Another year, another record
Geneva, 25 November 2019 - Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high, according to the World Meteorological…
Head of World Meteorological Organization says ‘no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline’
The concentration of climate-heating greenhouse gases has hit a record high, according to a report from…
The UK Conservative party has confirmed an election pledge to support a 40GW offshore wind target for 2030.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday launched the party’s manifesto, which includes the…
The last surviving Sumatran Rhino in Malaysia has died in captivity, with the WWF estimating that there are only about 80 left mostly living in the wild in Sumatra and Borneo, and the entire species…
A new report has found that Europe are not on track to achieve any of the 2030 Sustainable development Goals (SDGs).
The independent quantitative report, the first of its kind to track the progress…
ATHENS - Greenpeace activists abseiled down the side of huge storage tank at a Hellenic Petroleum refinery near Athens on Thursday and unfurled a huge banner protesting at the company’s oil and gas…
Air pollution is an insidious killer. If you are among the 91% of the world’s population who breathes air the World Health Organisation (WHO) deems unsafe, then every time you inhale, microscopic…