‘We don’t have a leader who is able to grasp [the issue] and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual,’ say James Hansen. The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and [...]

When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and [...]

Climate scientist James Hansen talks about global warming, Copenhagen, and his new book. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the world’s most famous climatologists. He testified at a 1988 U.S. Senate hearing that the emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was already producing [...]

WASHINGTON FOUNDATION NOTE – It was determined to reproduce this entire article which appeared in Business Week from the US as it is encouraging that article on Climate Change are at least now starting to appear in the US main stream media. Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened [...]

In the first study of its kind, climate scientists looked at how much pollution the world could afford to produce between now and the end of the century in order to keep temperature rises within a “safe limit”. A number of different scenarios were run and the most likely outcome was that carbon dioxide from [...]

Brazil and France have agreed a common position on fighting global warming before next month’s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. They will pursue the goal of reducing industrialised nations’ emissions to 50% below 1990 levels by 2050. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced the move in Paris. [...]

A climate change deal at the end of the year could end up being two treaties because the Americans refuse to sign up to existing global agreements. The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December has been billed as the last chance for the world to stop catastrophic global warming. But the latest round [...]

On December 7th they will gather to argue. This COUNTDOWN CLOCK now paints the harsh reality of how much time is left for the citizens of the world to raise a collective voice to demand that they agree. If they agree to disagree and not acknowledge our collective interdependence on our planets health, it will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]