Following on from the Foundations recent post ‘End of the Line – The Movie – Imagine a world without fish – another Inconvenient Truth’ comes the report from the UNEP that fish stocks are in peril without urgent action. The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 without fundamental restructuring of the [...]

The world’s governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of curbing the loss of species and nature by 2010, a major study has confirmed. Virtually all species and ecosystems show continued decline, while pressures on nature are increasing, it concludes. Published in the journal Science, the study confirms what conservationists have known for several years. [...]

Pledges made at December’s UN summit in Copenhagen are unlikely to keep global warming below 2C, a study concludes. Writing in the journal Nature, analysts at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research in Germany say a rise of at least 3C by 2100 is likely. The team also says many countries, including EU members [...]

Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said the EU has failed to convince the developing world that it is serious about global warming. Speaking in an unusually candid manner during a European Parliament hearing on Wednesday (14 April), De Boer said the UN climate negotiations in [...]

The only UN body with the power to ban trade in endangered animals and plants starts a triennial meeting in Doha on Saturday with bluefin tuna, African elephants and polar bears on the docket. Besides the proposal to stop cross-border commerce in bluefin, fiercely contested by sushi-loving Japan, the 1975 Convention on International Trade in [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation Comment – If we are to win this War on Terra, we need to act decisively now. Pledges Post Copenhagen Unlikely to Keep Temperatures Below 2 Degrees Celsius by Mid Century UNEP Year Book Also Launched Today Outlines Growing Governance Challenge from Climate to Chemicals Bali (Indonesia), 23 February 2010 - Countries will [...]

It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the national security risks of our growing dependence [...]

Despite his steady hands at the helm of climate talks, de Boer was losing his touch and navigated into rancorous territory How can everything have gone so wrong so quickly? A year ago, the prospects for successful climate change regulation were bright: a new US president promised positive re-engagement with the international community on the issue, civil society [...]

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 [...]

UNITED NATIONS — The reduction goals announced by the nations responsible for the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are likely to fall short of what many scientists say is needed to limit the disastrous effects of climate change, a U.N. official said Monday. Janos Pasztor, the top climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, [...]