Senior UN officials have called on the international community to address social and economic inequalities in order to achieve sustainability. At a General Assembly debate, UN...
Global warming will make Australian heatwaves, like the one that hit the country in January, five times more likely to happen, according to new research. In...
Air pollution in northern China reduces life expectancy by five-and-a-half years, compared to those in the less polluted south, according to a new study. The report,...
Pollution in China has reached such extreme levels that the authorities have proposed executing polluters, writes Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management. A recent piece of...
The Indian government has been criticised for auctioning off new land for coal mining. According to The Hindu, Greenpeace India said that the 14 new coal...
The Church of England will consider whether to completely divest from fossil fuels, after the diocese of Southwark passed a resolution backing such a move. The...
Bill McKibben and his team at 350.org have done something that at one point it seemed inconceivable the environmental movement would ever do again. He has...
A report published in Science magazine has claimed that the £3 billion a year given to British farmers is returning little value to society. Seventy per...
Climate change will continue to be taught in geography across key stages 1-3 in England, after education secretary Michael Gove scrapped plans to take it off...
Storebrand, a major Norwegian pension fund and life insurance firm, has divested from 19 fossil fuel companies to ensure “long-term stable returns” – as these stocks,...
American anthropologist Margaret Mead’s famous quote about a “small group of thoughtful, committed people” being the only thing that has ever changed the world could have...
The UK can no longer afford to bury its head in the sand when it comes to climate change. This was the rallying call from energy...
A UN fund set up to help developing countries fight the causes and effects of climate change could be ready to launch in 2014, it has...
Barack Obama’s June speech on climate change has been credited with helping boost investment in clean technology in the second three months of 2013. According to market...
The last 10 years were the hottest since modern measurements began, according to the United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). A new report says the years...