The costs of inaction on climate change will be "catastrophic", according to US Secretary of State John Kerry.
The UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that the Japanese government must halt its whaling programme in the Antarctic.
Today the IPCC launches its latest review of world climate. But how to translate its grim findings into action when US is deploying its full armoury of intelligence and diplomatic dirty tricks to sink any prospect of an effective global climate agreement?
World leaders have called for urgent action after a major United Nations report warned of a “severe, pervasive and irreversible impact” on human life if climate change were allowed to run on unhindered.
Domestic politics means that he is unlikely ever to deliver on his climate change aspirations
ExxonMobil, the US oil group, said it was “highly unlikely” that the world would cut greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to keep global warming within the internationally agreed limit of 2C.
The cool blue cover of the latest IPCC report on the impacts of climate change belies the rather hot stuff within.
(Reuters) - Russia plans to build an undersea gas pipeline to Crimea and could construct three power stations on the Black Sea peninsula following its annexation from Ukraine, Energy Minister Alexander Novak was on Tuesday quoted as saying.
Leading climate scientists urge Britain to stay at leading edge of adaptation efforts as water scarcity, heatwave and flooding risks escalate
Report details how plans to build a new fleet of interconnectors will help to cut energy costs, enhance security and slash greenhouse gas emissions
EXCLUSIVE: Treasury-backed bank underlines confidence in emerging market, despite a number of companies scaling back investments
The IPCC report confirms the scale of the climate challenge is daunting, but environmentalists need to shed their cognitive dissonance and get behind the vision for a positive green future
Matthew Farrow of the Environmental Industries Commission argues that overseas markets offer huge potential for UK clean tech firms
BusinessGreen Plus runs down the key findings from the latest IPCC report examining the risks the world faces from a changing climate
“THE four horsemen of the apocalypse": that was the disparaging appraisal by Richard Tol of the University of Sussex of a report published in Yokohama on March 31st by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of scientists (including Dr Tol) who provide governments round the world with mainstream scientific guidance on the climate.
Exxon Mobil, the US's largest oil and gas company, said in a new report that world climate policies are "highly unlikely" to stop it from producing and selling fossil fuels in the near future.
Newspapers critical of climate change science tell MPs global warming is happening and humans play a role in it