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Governments are not acting fast enough to reduce carbon emissions, a climate change rally in Melbourne has heard.Wearing red, members of more than 60 environmental groups rallied in the city centre and marched to the Alexandra Gardens where they formed a human “sign” 140 metres long, spelling “Climate Emergency”.
The demonstration followed yesterday’s release of economist […]

G8 rich nations and major emerging economies probably won’t achieve a big breakthrough in talks on global warming in Japan next month, Britain’s climate envoy said on Thursday, echoing other forecasts for modest progress at best.Climate change is a key topic for the July 8 Group of Eight leaders’ summit as well as an expanded […]

The world’s major cities are also among the planet’s worst polluters but they have the solutions to most of their problems at their fingertips, a leading environmental consultancy said on Monday.To make the case more compelling, consultancy McKinsey said that most of the available solutions would save more than they cost so made economic sense […]

A discussion of the effects of climate change on Africa, excerpted from “Africa’s Development: Promises and Prospects - Report of the Africa Progress Panel 2008.”Global warming is well underway, and its consequences are already visible in Africa. Severe drought lurks behind the Darfur conflict, for example, and it is very likely that the problem […]

Business should be thinking about the response to climate change not as a threat but as an opportunity, says Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri.The IPCC is the United Nations body whose task is to report to governments every five years or so on the state of science on climate change, its environmental […]

John McCain heads to the Pacific Northwest today to propose a climate-change plan, addressing an issue integral to his presidential bid in a region that could be crucial.The Arizona senator, who often cites climate change as a policy difference with President Bush, plans to renew support for a “cap-and-trade” system that “sets clear limits on […]

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Tata Steel are among the companies that have recently joined a UN climate change initiative for business leaders, according to the UN Global Compact, which partners industry.Some 230 companies from around the world have signed up for this “Caring for the Climate” initiative since it was launched in […]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the world’s biggest carbon polluters on Friday that global warming was becoming a driver of hunger, unrest and conflict, with the war in Darfur a concrete example.”Climate change is already having a considerable impact on security,” Sarkozy said in a speech to ministers from 16 economies that together account for […]

Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.At a town-hall meeting, Obama was asked if he would tap the former vice president for his Cabinet to handle global warming.
“I would,” Obama said. “Not only will […]

Region especially vulnerable to natural disastersThe 2007-2008 Human Development Report published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) examines the impact of climate change and warns that global warming could have a disastrous impact on many developing nations if world leaders do not take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions.
The effects of climate change will […]