Delaying a decision to approve carbon emission reduction targets for the 2020s could risk losing investment in UK businesses, the government’s official climate advisers have been...
A leading climate scientist has warned that attempts to use global financial markets in the fight against climate change are “doomed to failure”. After the release...
Reading the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) feels rather as Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors must have felt in the 1993...
George Osborne has been criticised after delivering a speech light with positive messages for the green economy at the Conservative party conference. Speaking in Manchester, the...
The secretary of state for the environment has been labelled “a quack”, after saying that there may be advantages to climate change for the UK. On...
Talks must begin now on the world’s ‘carbon budget’, leading economist and expert on climate change Lord Stern has warned. On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on...
A group of high-profile investors has called on George Osborne to address the lack of a 2030 decarbonisation target in the energy bill, which they say...
The chancellor George Osborne has said that he does not want the UK to be at the forefront of efforts to prevent climate change, as the...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report says unequivocally that human activity is causing global warming. Here’s how its contents have been reported by...
The world’s leading climate scientists have unveiled the first part of a major report, which says that the evidence for manmade climate change is stronger than...
Ahead of the release of the fifth assessment report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change believers and deniers are debating whether...
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has said the time for debating whether humanity is causing climate change is over. Speaking at a major climate conference...
Governments from around the world will meet on Monday in Stockholm to read the final version of a report from scientists around the world, which is...
Scientists have warned that the total amount of carbon burnt since the industrial revolution must not exceed one trillion tonnes. Experts have calculated that in the...
Gerald Kutney picks out some of the highlights from his upcoming book, Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol, to be published by Routledge in...