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18.09.2012
Global climate revenues fall 5 pct in 2011-HSBC
Global climate revenues fell 5 percent in 2011 to $539 billion from an all-time high the previous year, mainly dragged down by the weak performance of low-carbon energy companies hit by the global economic slowdown, a report by HSBC said on Tuesday.
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18.09.2012
El Salvador in battle against tide of climate change
The forest of towering, dead mangrove trees stretches along the beach as far as the eye can see. As the crashing waves rise and fall, short stumps emerge and vanish beneath the Pacific Ocean. Climate change has come early to the Bajo Lempa region of western El Salvador.
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14.09.2012
France seeks more ambitious EU carbon cuts
French President Francois Hollande on Friday called for deeper cuts in European Union carbon dioxide emissions as he sought to put the environment back at the top of the international agenda.
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13.09.2012
UK government, climate advisors at odds over gas role
The UK government is on a collision course with its climate advisors over the role gas should play in cutting CO2 output in Europe (Chicago Options: ^REURUSD - news) 's second largest emitter, statements published Thursday show.
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13.09.2012
Gas glut threatens climate battle-IEA
A new "golden age of gas" could derail global efforts to fight climate change as indebted governments mull a switch to the cheaper fuel, the International Energy Agency's chief economist said on Thursday.
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11.09.2012
Greg Barker: COP18 climate talks can boost Saudi green ambitions
UK energy and climate change minister Greg Barker has argued that the UN climate talks in Qatar later this year offer a unique opportunity to encourage the major oil and gas producing states to recognise the benefits of signing up to a low carbon agenda.
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11.09.2012
UN climate talks should stick with 2 degree goal-EU negotiator
United Nations' climate talks should continue pushing for more ambitious action to ensure global warming is kept under 2 degrees, an EU climate negotiator said on Tuesday, a month after the United States was accused of backtracking on the goal.
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10.09.2012
Hands-on training workshop for Africa Region opens
Dr Mustapha Ahmed, Deputy Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, on Monday said the negative impacts of climate change posed serious threats to key sensitive productive sectors of the economies of developing countries.
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10.09.2012
Climate Scientists Face Organized Harassment in U.S.
InsideClimateNews.org -- The harassment faced by U.S.-based climate scientists has been well documented in the media—but not the harassment of scientists in Europe, Canada or the rest of the world.
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