Climate change
Hillary Clinton could run on strongest climate change platform ever
The leaders committed the presumptive Democratic nominee to a carbon tax, a climate test… Continue reading
Business and sustainability leaders welcome fifth carbon budget
Business leaders and sustainability professionals have unanimously welcomed this morning’s confirmation that the government has set the fifth carbon budget at the recommended level.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd laid a draft order before parliament setting the carbon budget for the… Continue reading
Warming unlikely to limit chances of UK soggy summers
The UK is likely to continue to have soggy summers regardless of global warming according to a new study.
Scientists say that greenhouse gases will cause a general rise in summer temperatures, over the course of this century.
But they… Continue reading
El Niño likely to boost CO2 in 2016
CO2 levels have been boosted by El Nino and mean the greenhouse gas is about to pass a symbolic threshold.
Twenty-sixteen will very likely mark the first time the concentration of CO2, as measured atop Hawaii’s famous Mauna Loa volcano,… Continue reading
March 2016 temperatures highest since 1880
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for March 2016 was the highest for this month in the 1880–2016 record, at 1.22°C (2.20°F) above the 20th century average of 12.7°C (54.9°F). This surpassed the previous record… Continue reading
Climate change – UK ‘scores well’ for now
Not surprisingly perhaps Scandinavian countries have scored highly in the international rating for combating climate change. Some may be more surprised to see that the UK has also scored well in the international rankings. Denmark, the UK and Sweden… Continue reading
China ready to set out climate pledges
China is set to reveal how much it intends to cut its carbon emissions by beyond 2020, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said.
Mr Li is on an official visit to France where a UN-led climate summit will be held… Continue reading