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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Up to a fifth of all species of animals and plants risk extinction even if the world manages to limit global warming to levels widely viewed as safe, the head of the Convention on Biological Diversity said. Ahmed Djoghlaf also told Reuters on the sidelines of December 7-18 talks on climate change [...]

Hundreds of millions of people around the world would be affected as low low-lying coastal areas became inundated Global sea levels could rise by up to 9m in the next few hundred years, even if the world manages to stabilise average temperatures to 2C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new study. In this scenario, [...]

The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Their findings appear December 20 in the advanced online edition of Nature Geoscience. The team demonstrated that only a relatively small rise [...]

  While Copenhagen may fall far short of the deal we need, leaders know voters are not prepared to change their lifestyle Despair is not acceptable, but it may be inevitable. Social democrats are the world’s optimists, knowing human destiny is in our own hands if we have the will to change. Leave pessimism to [...]

Merry Christmas from the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation in the language of your own and ours. Now and for the year ahead we wish upon you; “a million years of great happiness”. Bob Williamson AFRIKAANS geseënde Kersfees ALBANIAN gëzuar Krishtlindja ALSATIAN gleckika Wïanachta ARABIC miilaad majiid ARMENIAN Shnorhavor Surb tsnund BASQUE Eguberri on BELARUSIAN З Божым [...]

A very dear friend sent this to me with the following message ~ I can’t think of a single thing more than what was already shared in this holiday message. Please be sure to see the video below. Suzanne Sparling Exec. Dir., Greenhouse Neutral Foundation   * * * * * The Deer and the [...]

Hello Bob I’m sending this email to you as you seem to have your hands on the issue of climate change. Now I get a lot of mail this time of year asking for this, that and the other for Christmas. It’s become a bit of a tradition for kids to write to me asking [...]

Reading this story I note the inconvenience that this extream weather event has caused to travellers throughout Europe. It seemed however curios, that while some affluent enough to travel were inconvenienced, again we see how those least able to adapt – the homeless were those who have suffered most and perished. As climate events such [...]

China has dismissed claims made by a British minister that it “hijacked” efforts to reach an agreement at the climate summit in Copenhagen. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband had accused China of vetoing two agreements on limiting emissions. Beijing’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the accusations were a political plot made by leaders who [...]