NEW YORK — This month, the mayor of Mesa, Arizona, a city of about 500,000 inhabitants in the American Southwest, became the 1,000th local leader to sign on to a climate change agreement under the United States Conference of Mayors. In signing the compact — initiated in 2005 by Greg Nickels, the mayor of Seattle [...]

Beijing, China (October 14, 2009) – Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny Wong, attended the second Australia – China Ministerial Dialogue on climate change with Chinese National Development and Reform Commission Vice Chairman Xie Zhenhua.  The need for a global agreement in Copenhagen in December was the key issue discussed during the Dialogue. [...]

As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: how to pay for the new accord. The price tag for a new climate agreement will be a staggering [...]

BANGKOK — Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol — the only binding global agreement for curbing greenhouse gases — has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators in Bangkok try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty. The flare-up has erupted only two months before the December 7-18 UN conference tasked [...]

With only 70 or so days to go before leaders meet to agree on a post-Kyoto climate deal in Copenhagen, there is a need to speed up negotiations and “make political choices,” Danish Climate Change and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard told EurActiv in an interview. “It is crucial that the negotiators start to diminish the text [of the agreement] [...]

Denise Russo is a tireless worker for others in need. Her efforts for Thirst Aid Live are testament to how single individuals can and are making a difference in the troubled world we live in and the Foundation honors her. We are all faced with the fierce urgency of the need to act on climate [...]

Taking the temperature of our climate scientists – heading for the Hills…. Have you heard the one about the international climate scientist buying land in New Zealand? An isolated, cold and elevated hideaway could be become de rigeur in family wills to try to protect future generations against rising sea levels, drought and heatwaves. Actually [...]

Government ministers in the Maldives are taking scuba lessons and learning hand signals in preparation for an unprecedented underwater cabinet meeting intended to highlight the threat of global warming. Since taking office last year, President Mohamed Nasheed has emerged as an important voice on the impact of climate change amid fears that rising ocean levels [...]

From Canada.com – Full article here LONDON — Quakes, volcanic eruptions, giant landslides and tsunamis may become more frequent as global warming changes the earth’s crust, scientists said on Wednesday. Climate-linked geological changes may also trigger “methane burps,” the release of a potent greenhouse gas, currently stored in solid form under melting permafrost and the [...]

Confronting the challenge Google has launched an interesting tool in preparation for GOP15 that allows users to explore what the world might look like if various levels of warming, sea rises, and so forth occur. You’re able to see played out some of the what-if scenarios you’re hearing about as the Copenhagen date approaches. And [...]