U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding climate pact. His decision is not expected to further derail U.N.-led climate talks to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, divided [...]

By Bob Williamson As has been highlighted in several articles such as, ‘Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?’ ‘The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!’ ‘Undercover of Consumerism and Complacency, our democracy and self rule were usurped.’ [...]

The first ever national survey of pollution in China shows a nation that has paid for its economic growth in environmental pollution. Measuring nearly six million sources of pollution in China, experts say that in 2007 alone the nation dumped 30.3 million metric tons of pollutants into its water. Doubling official government figures, these measurements [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: I have long said that Australia while claiming to have around 1.46% of total global emissions of CO2 exports its contribution proudly for the emissions of 30% of total world export coal. This hypocrisy seems now to be gaining some other popular consensus and discussion. I am pleased to finally see [...]

AUSTRALIA has declared it will not go beyond a 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 without guaranteed action by major emitters including the US, China and India. The Government’s formal submission to the Copenhagen Accord – the widely criticised agreement hatched between the US and major developing countries at the conference [...]

Want a weekly update of all the greatest posts on the web? Subscribe for a weekly email and never miss a story! Email to Bob Williamson in the subject line type SUBSCRIBE When viewing this video presentation explaining the simple math of the Exponential Function, there are a couple of observations that the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment: If you wish to look at the reality of the current imbalance of China’s foreign exchange reserves as compared to the current real time US Debt click this link and sit and ponder as the numbers roll over. It’s a real eye opener! China disclosed the other day that its foreign [...]

WASHINGTON — Just a month after world leaders fashioned a tentative and nonbinding agreement at the climate change summit meeting in Copenhagen, the deal already appears at risk of coming undone, the top United Nations climate official warned on Wednesday. Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing [...]

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 [...]

The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organisation assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The negotiations ran into the sand of the Mexican resort of Cancún, never [...]