A fleet of huge wind turbines could be built in Ireland over the next few years, eventually providing clean power to 3m homes in the UK....
2012 has been yet another year of extreme natural weather. However, international policy progress to limit climate change has been meagre at best and as a...
Barack Obama has said that a global failure to respond to climate change would mean “[betraying] our children and future generations”, as he embarked on a...
Ramped up responsible investment into agriculture could help tackle poverty and hunger across the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It says...
Government ministers were angered in 1997 after the Princess called for an international ban on landmines after seeing victims in Angola. With news that a Yorkshire...
Recent spates of extreme weather events such as flooding, wildfires and superstorms have gone some way to changing the way sceptics view climate change, according to...
On Tuesday night, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary exploring the extreme weather events of 2012 and asked the question, “Is our weather getting worse?” Weather should...
With gas such a crucial fuel in the transition to a low carbon economy Schroders talk about how this will affect the climate change strategy. US...
The chancellor George Obsorne delivered his fifth set piece financial statement that we’ve covered. He opened with the bold statement that the economy is healing. While...
The UK’s economy would be £20 billion better off by 2030 under a scenario in which offshore wind investment continues steadily, rather than investing heavily in...
Plans to build a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn have been put into doubt, after a new report claimed that a mixture of...
Mark Carney will replace Sir Mervyn King as Bank of England governor in July next year, and in doing so, will take on one of the...
For the 18th UN Climate Change Conference around 20,000 people from over 190 countries have boarded planes to stay in air-conditioned hotels and produce huge amounts...
Forty-nine years ago today, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Just over a year earlier, he made his seminal “we choose to go to the moon” speech...
We seem to be locked in an endless financial crisis. Starting with a sub-prime housing bubble, complex financial derivatives linked to those assets contaminated global finance,...