Meat taxes are often seen as politically impossible but research by Chatham House in 2015 found they are far less unpalatable to consumers than governments think... READ MORE›
The accusations contradict Brazil's position at this week's climate talks, where the country's negotiators have urged the world to be more ambitious in cutting carbon emissions... READ MORE›
The expected jump in the carbon emissions that drive global warming is a giant leap backwards for humankind, according to some scientists... READ MORE›
The new report has raised alarm among scientists and prompted calls for nations to consider more drastic emissions reductions at the upcoming climate negotiations in Bonn... READ MORE›
When the global economy has been strong, we've consumed more energy, which has translated into burning more fossil fuels and releasing more carbon pollution... READ MORE›
Data from a circling NASA satellite show spikes in carbon emissions worldwide, particularly in winter, along with new insights into the rising levels of po... READ MORE›
I don't think we can have confidence that anything else can do this, the Berlin-based chief executive told a London climate change conference... READ MORE›
The forests of Asia experienced the least losses -- just over 16 percent of the total for the tropics... READ MORE›
Let's turn tropical forests back into a sink... READ MORE›
Population reduction would probably reduce carbon emissions but we have many other tools for getting global warming under control, he said... READ MORE›
The assumption they are making is that economic growth depends upon increasing carbon emissions... READ MORE›
The new research shows the 4.5C upper limit for climate sensitivity is real and means projections for global temperature rises cannot be reduced... READ MORE›
The average westerner's carbon emissions destroy 30 square metres of Arctic sea ice every year, according to new research... READ MORE›
The result was just 0.1 percent lower than the previous year, but it occurred against the background of healthy growth, which usually spurs carbon emissions growth... READ MORE›
A commonly used scenario for ambitious carbon cuts, called RCP2.6 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, projects ever bigger carbon cuts as time passes... READ MORE›
But a fully-charged battery also prevents a car's alternator from kicking in and releasing carbon emissions during tests, as would happen in real world driving situations... READ MORE›
Southern Spain will be reduced to desert by the end of the century if the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, researchers have warned... READ MORE›
Leading economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern say taxes of 100 per metric tonne could be needed by 2030... READ MORE›
Carbon pledges from 147 nations to Paris climate summit are not enough to stop temperature rise, experts conclude... READ MORE›
The closings occurred just as Europe began tackling climate change, which assisted the European Union in meeting its 2020 targets, he said... READ MORE›
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense, he said... READ MORE›
They wanted to prove, with sulfur dioxide emissions, that a flexible, market-based system worked -- and would work for carbon emissions as well... READ MORE›
Melting of the tundra at the polar ice cap would release more methane and other greenhouse gases... READ MORE›
In the US, 25 public sector pension funds have investments in the the top 50 coal companies, spread from California to Alabama, Ohio and New York... READ MORE›
A quick word on the differences between guilt and shame... READ MORE›
Referencing those positive notes, the scientists and policymakers revealed six milestones that could reduce global carbon emissions... READ MORE›
Professor Dave Reay of Edinburgh University said that the revision of China's carbon emissions make no difference to the overall climate picture... READ MORE›
Mr. Kim, the World Bank president, acknowledged that carbon pricing would come with burdens including higher energy costs... READ MORE›
China has ratified the Paris climate change agreement, boosting efforts to bring the deal into force by the end of the year... READ MORE›
Sea levels rise and fall by more than 100 metres during global ice ages, and runaway global warming could add another 70m to that... READ MORE›
The heads of 10 major oil and gas companies have denied they are paying lip service to climate change initiatives while conducting business as usual... READ MORE›
China's carbon emissions from fossil fuels may be 14 percent lower than thought... READ MORE›
The rule aims to lower carbon emissions from the country's power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels... READ MORE›
Latest news and comment on the COP21 UN climate change conference in Paris, France... READ MORE›
Carbon emissions may have peaked already in China, years earlier than its leaders pledged, according to a study co-authored by the world-renowned economist Lord Stern... READ MORE›
But there is reason to doubt either the sincerity or analytical rigour of BP's faith in carbon pricing as the principal tool for tackling climate change... READ MORE›
Given currently available records, the present anthropogenic carbon release rate is unprecedented during the past 66 million years, the scientists wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience... READ MORE›
Behind the scenes at COP21, the rich countries responsible for climate change outsource their problems to the poorest... READ MORE›
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