Zero Carbon Caravan

By Nicholas Dearden
Last week’s G8 meeting presents a worrying model of how climate talks
will play out in the run-up to the Copenhagen summit in December.

By ZhongXiang Zhang
East-West Center - Research Program
Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse gas emissions caps.

Stefania Milan interviews MAURIZIO GUBBIOTTI of Legambiente
FLORENCE, May 31 (IPS) - Millions of people will soon have to leave their homeland as a result of global warming, says a report on environmental refugees by the Italian environmental association Legambiente. Half of them will move due to natural catastrophes, the rest will be hit by desertification [...]

New analysis shows warming could be double previous estimates

Climate change damage could cause the world’s forests to worsen global warming in coming decades rather than mitigate it, according to a report by forest scientists.

A number of key components of the earth’s climate system could pass their ‘tipping point’ this century, according to new research led by a scientist at the University of East Anglia.
Published today by the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the researchers have coined a new term, ‘tipping elements’, to [...]

There is increasing scientific evidence that human beings are contributing to changing the world’s climate (known as anthropogenic, or human-induced, climate change).