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BODIES OF 14 U.N. PEACEKEEPERS KILLED BY SUSPECTED UGANDAN REBELS FLOWN TO TANZANIA
The bodies of 14 Tanzanian peacekeepers killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by suspected Ugandan rebels were repatriated Monday, where the defense m... READ MORE›
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SWEDEN CRITICISES US CLIMATE STANCE AS IT REVEALS AMBITIOUS CARBON EMISSIONS LAW
The European Union as a whole has set a target of an 80-95 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050... READ MORE›
FINAL DRAFT OF LANDMARK CLIMATE PACT TO BE RELEASED
I'll be holding my breath until the gavel comes down," said Jennifer Morgan, an expert in international climate change negotiations with the World Resources Institute, a research organization... READ MORE›
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE WORLD SUDDENLY WENT VEGETARIAN?
In fact, clear solutions already exist for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock industry... READ MORE›
PARIS CLIMATE DEAL: NEARLY 200 NATIONS SIGN IN END OF FOSSIL FUEL ERA
The text commits countries to peak greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, and to seek a balance between human-caused emissions and removals by carbon sinks... READ MORE›
WORLD ON TRACK FOR 3C OF WARMING UNDER CURRENT GLOBAL CLIMATE PLEDGES, WARNS UN
Mass migration as a result of climate change is hard to separate from other causes of migration, but is predicted to become a much greater problem... READ MORE›
GERMAN COALITION AGREES TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS UP TO 95% BY 2050
Germany's environment minister Barbara Hendricks first presented a list of ambitious CO2 reduction targets for various economic sectors in 2015... READ MORE›
'IT'S TRICKY': WHY THERE'S NO MAGIC NUMBER FOR AN EFFECTIVE CARBON TAX
First, governments charge very different prices for carbon dioxide emissions... READ MORE›
WHERE IS THE WORLD'S GREENEST CITY?
For example, which cities have the cleanest air or the lowest greenhouse gas emissions?... READ MORE›
EUROPE UNLIKELY TO MEET CLIMATE GOAL STUDY FINDS
The closings occurred just as Europe began tackling climate change, which assisted the European Union in meeting its 2020 targets, he said... READ MORE›
SURGE IN RENEWABLE ENERGY STALLS WORLD GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
The new figures confirm last year's surprising but welcome news we now have seen two straight years of greenhouse gas emissions decoupling from economic growth... READ MORE›
HUMANS DAMAGING THE ENVIRONMENT FASTER THAN IT CAN RECOVER, UN FINDS
Despite the recent global agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, signed in Paris last December, global carbon output continues to rise... READ MORE›
HOW CYCLING COULD HELP THE PARIS CLIMATE TALKS CHANGE THE WORLD
But it illustrates a general approach of planning for a road-dominated future, one where transport-based greenhouse gas emissions will, inevitably, remain high... READ MORE›
SELL LAST GASOLINE CAR BY 2035 TO MEET CLIMATE GOALS, STUDY SAYS
The CAT is one of the main groups that monitors government actions to restrict global warming and includes researchers who are authors on UN climate reports... READ MORE›
2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
China and the United States, respectively, account for about 24 percent and 14 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Resources Institute... READ MORE›
SWITZERLAND BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO SUBMIT PARIS CLIMATE DEAL PLEDGE
03 GMT has become the first country to formally communicate its contribution to a UN climate change deal 50 greenhouse gas cuts on 1990 levels by 2030... READ MORE›
CARBON EMISSION CUTS AT A LOCAL LEVEL COULD AVOID DANGEROUS GLOBAL WARMING
New Climate Economy report says local action is among measures that could make up shortfall in emissions cuts from pledges ahead of Paris summit... READ MORE›
'COWS EXPEL GAS SO THEY DON'T EXPLODE'
Methane, primarily emitted from agriculture and the fossil fuel industry, doesn't linger in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide... READ MORE›
US PLANS TO SAVE POLAR BEARS ARE TOOTHLESS, SAYS CLIMATE SCIENTIST
Polar bears, the first species to be declared threatened or endangered because of climate change, rely on sea ice for hunting seals and raising their young... READ MORE›
COAL DEMAND SET TO BREAK 9BN TONNE BARRIER THIS DECADE
Environmentalists warn of very dangerous development after Lima climate summit fails to agree on greenhouse gas emissions curbs... READ MORE›
MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY JOIN COMPACT OF MAYORS COALITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Melbourne and Sydney have joined an international coalition of cities that have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and advocate for action on climate change... READ MORE›
UNDER TRUMP SHADOW, CLIMATE TALKS SET 2018 DEADLINE TO AGREE RULES
Showing determination to keep the Paris Agreement on track, the conference agreed to work out a rule book at the latest by December 2018... READ MORE›
'SPRINT NEEDED' TO SECURE EMISSIONS DEAL IN DECEMBER
Observers say draft text shows countries close to consensus after Bonn talks to hammer out final details of global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
OBAMA'S CLIMATE CHANGE LEGACY AT STAKE AS CLEAN POWER PLAN HAS ITS DAY IN COURT
On Tuesday, lawyers representing the states and the Obama administration presented oral arguments to the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit... READ MORE›
OIL COMPANIES DENY THAT JOINT CLIMATE PLEDGE IS LIP SERVICE
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›
AFTER PARIS CLIMATE TALKS COMES THE HARD PART
Another, more vague, goal is that by sometime in the second half of the century, human-made greenhouse gas emissions won't exceed the amount that nature absorbs... READ MORE›
5 QUICK (AND SOME NOT SO QUICK) WAYS TO HELP SLOW CLIMATE CHANGE
5 quick and some not so quick ways to help slow climate change... READ MORE›
A NEW SPACE RACE: SATELLITES COULD TEST THE WORLD'S CLIMATE VOWS
Scientists are also struggling to measure changes in forests that absorb CO2, a key part of the calculation for net emissions, from space... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS FACE RISING CARBON EMISSIONS NUMBERS
New projections about rising greenhouse gas emissions in Canada show the scale of the task facing the country's environment ministers, who are meeting in Ottawa today... READ MORE›
MARSHALL ISLANDS URGE AUSTRALIA TO FOLLOW ITS AMBITIOUS CLIMATE GOALS
It might be one of the worlds smallest countries but the Marshall Islands has set an ambitious target to cut its greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
DUTCH COURT ORDERS STATE TO SLASH CARBON EMISSIONS
Countries are to publish their own undertakings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a hoped-for global deal to be agreed in Paris in December... READ MORE›