Beijing’s thaw over greenhouse gases seen as major step in battling climate change. The battle against global warming has received a transformational boost after China, the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, proposed to set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time. Under the proposal China, which is responsible for a [...]

Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic, survey finds  Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled.  The [...]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Economic losses from disasters since 2000 are in the range of $2.5 trillion, a figure at least 50 percent higher than previous international estimates, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. The U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warned in the 246-page report that economic losses from floods, earthquakes and drought [...]

Recently I was privileged to join Gov. Edmund “Jerry” Brown Jr.’s historic mission to China. As the only member of the delegation representing hundreds of California and U.S. cities, I was prepared to share some of the successful policies and technologies that local governments are employing to fight climate change while creating more sustainable, resilient [...]

The US response to climate change has been inadequate, Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted. Speaking en route to the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Sweden, Kerry praised his host’s efforts in cutting its emissions, but said his own country;’s performance was a matter of ‘regret’. “The Prime Minister [Fredrik Reinfeldt] pointed out to [...]

If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right? From Hurricane Sandy’s devastating blow to the Northeast to the protracted drought that hit the Midwest Corn Belt, natural catastrophes across the United States pounded insurers last year, generating $35 billion in privately insured [...]

13 May 2013 – In the face of “clear and present danger,” the United Nations climate change body is warning that a stepped-up coordinated response is needed to fend off the impacts of climate change after the world’s carbon-dioxide concentrations surpassed their highest level in 4 million years. “The world must wake up and take [...]

If the conversation on equity and overall tone of discussions at last week’s UN climate change talks in Bonn was a pleasant surprise, other aspects of the negotiations remained uninspiring. It’s clear that unless developed countries make concrete commitments to meet their ethical and legal obligations to provide climate finance, progress in these talks will [...]

Carbon dioxide levels indicate rise in temperatures that could lead agriculture to fail on entire continents. It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert Lord Stern [...]

The Climate Action Network wants the UN to host an ‘equity review’ to establish a consistent set of indicators developed and developing countries can use to assess their own climate ambition. Observers fear that unless accepted measurements of climate ambition can be established, it could be virtually impossible to construct an effective global climate deal [...]