The lingering drought and above-average temperatures are threatening to make the 2015 wildfire season a very harsh one for the Western United States, according to the US Fire Service and the National Interagency Fire Centre who are forecasting higher than average fire activity for the...
An Australian delegation was questioned for an hour at the latest United Nations climate meeting at Bonn in Germany overnight Australian time. The Bonn meeting is essentially an assessment of nations’ climate change commitments in the lead up to Paris in December.A number of countries...
The latest report by WWF entitled “Crossing the Divide: How to Close the Emissions Abyss 2” launched on 2 June 2015 shows how a number of countries including the Phillipines, Kenya and Turkey can commence work to close the gap between the carbon reductions they...
Yesterday (June 4 2015), the world’s biggest furniture dealer IKEA announced that it plans to spend 1 billion Euros ($1.13 billion) on renewable energy projects and strategies to assist poor countries to manage climate change. Chief Executive Peter Agnefjall was adamant that prices at their...
The heat wave in India which has killed more than 2,300 people to date has been declared the fifth worst in history. If it kills an additional 241 people, it will become the fourth worst and the deadliest in Indian history. As temperatures in India...
On the first day of the Bonn meeting on Monday, June 1 2015, France called for a pre-Paris agreement to be struck by October, and urged the Paris Summit in December to add the finishing touches. China’s lead envoy in Bonn Su Wei played the...
Last Friday May 29 2015, the heads of BP, Shell, BG Group, Statoil, Eni and Total wrote a joint letter to UN Climate Chief Christina Figueres. Aware of the critical challenge that climate change presents for the world, they wanted her to know that they...
In his keynote address at the Business and Climate Summit, French President Francois Hollande echoed a message from hundreds of global businesses who support ambitious climate policies. Carbon pricing is essential to move to a low carbon economy according to Hollande, and during the Summit...
