Students From Across the U.S. Lobby Capitol Hill for Clean Energy, Carbon Caps

U.S. President Barack Obama set aside more than $30 billion for several renewable energy projects in the government’s massive economic stimulus package.  And this week, thousands of students from across the nation descended on Washington for a...

Solar Taxi Completes Journey Around the World

A solar ‘taxi,’ developed by scientists at Swiss universities, ended its journey around the world at the United Nations climate talks in PoznaÅ„, Poland. Yvo de Boer, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,...

German Initiative to Conserve Forests Offers Win-win Solution

Led by a bold commitment from Germany, leaders of the world’s industrial powers have the opportunity at the upcoming G8 Summit in Japan to take immediate and substantive action against climate change.

G8 Leaders Meeting in Hokkaido are Being Urged to Dump the World Bank’s ‘climate Investment Funds’

G8 leaders meeting in Hokkaido July 7-9 to tackle issues such as rising oil prices and global warming are being urged to dump the World Bank’s highly controversial ‘climate investment funds’.

Groups Oppose World Bank Climate Funds

More than 121 groups have joined together to release a statement opposing the World Bank’s proposed ‘Climate Investment Funds’ to address climate change and its impacts.

Turkey Hints At “significant” Moves on Climate Change

Turkey today dropped its strongest hint yet that it will sign up to the Kyoto Protocol on combating climate change, and will join in international efforts aimed at cutting greenhouse gasses.

Building Capacity to Attract Carbon Markets

Industrialized countries can earn greenhouse gas emission reduction credits by investing in projects that lower emission levels in developing countries, but little of this money has found its way into Africa. This could be about to change. On 6 December...