The Katowice talks failed to deliver on action points brought forward by developing countries, including compensation for irreparable damages caused by climate change and financing for adaptation and mitigation technologies.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Here's a round-up of the most far out, morally questionable ideas to prevent runaway climate change we've noticed this year.
The annual UN global warming conference is over. Despite some progress, the Katowice climate talks show political action still lags far behind the science.
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Negotiating tactics by the US and Saudi Arabia forced developing states to give in on their demands for stronger climate action, writes Saleemul Huq of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development.
Emissions from transportation have fallen 20 per cent since 1990 levels since Kyoto implemented measures to go car-free. What can other Asian cities learn from its example of how to "Copenhagen-ise"?
The recent IPCC report was a wake-up call to accelerate climate action, and COP 24 in Poland this year will be the first test to see if global leaders have been listening.
Would a carbon tax force energy corporations to either change their business priorities enough or to pay for climate mitigation? University of California, Davis' Paul Griffin examines.
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The ad, which was made by Greenpeace and rebadged by Iceland, was blocked from airing on television by the UK's ad watchdog because it broke rules on political advertising. Iceland says it is not anti-palm oil, 'we are anti-deforestation.'
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Together it stands, divided it falls. EU, through its environment ministers, had agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement through a process that would enable individual countries to send their instruments of ratification directly to the UN.
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Dutch multinational DSM's chief technology officer Marcel Wubbolts shares how the company's persistence in positioning sustainability as a core driver for profits seems to have paid off.
With the tagline "Taking the Pulse of the Planet", State of the World's Birds is a major global assessment that uses bird species to measure the health of our ecosystems ...
In its promotion of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), the EU-funded SWITCH-Asia Programme addresses particularly the needs, role and potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are ...
The Centre for Sustainable Environmental Sanitation (CSES) at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) was appointed by UPM Umwelt-Projekt-Management GmbH (UPM) to evaluate critically the actual and potential ...
The aim of this White Paper is to share some of Denmark's solutions and experiences in transforming sustainable biomass resources into competitive bioenergy solutions.
