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Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Emma Stoye |
World leaders agree climate deal at COP21 talks Nearly 200 countries have come to an agreement at the UN's COP21 climate conference in Paris, Frances, where world leaders have been discussing how to tackle climate change. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2010 Leila Sattary |
Emission reduction pledges pour in Dozens of countries, including the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters, have met a 31 January deadline and submitted emission reduction targets to the United Nations in line with the Copenhagen Accord signed during the climate summit in December. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 William Sweet |
What to Expect From the Copenhagen Climate Confab Success or at least a perception of success may be critical, but how is success to be measured? |
Chemistry World June 20, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Global industries call for carbon cuts Business leaders from more than 90 of the world's largest companies, including major chemical companies, have endorsed a policy framework for tackling climate change ahead of July's G8 summit in Japan. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2014 |
Emissions must hit zero by 2100, says IPCC The International Panel on Climate Change says that carbon emissions will have to fall to zero by 2100, but that the means to achieve this are economically affordable. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
Chemistry World December 2009 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: High hopes Comments from the editor on the Copenhagen climate negotiations, the role of the United States energy policy, and the dismissal of British science adviser, David Nutt. |
Chemistry World December 16, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Durban agreement welcomed by chemical industry The climate change agreement that nearly 200 nations reached on 11 December after nearly two weeks of negotiations at the United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, is largely being celebrated by the global chemical industry. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Bjorn Lomborg |
Technology, Not Talks, Will Save the Planet There are smarter alternatives to fighting climate change than cutting CO 2 emissions. |
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Dawn MacKeen |
Overwhelming evidence of global warming Experts hope a startling new report will be enough to persuade President Bush to take action... |
Salon.com November 28, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
Europe to U.S.: No deal on global warming A meeting in The Hague to negotiate reducing greenhouse gas emissions collapses without a deal -- but the world's still getting hotter... |
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Maria Burke |
Latest climate report sees a bigger role for adaptation The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that science can offer ways to adapt to climate change and reduce risk -- something that should be used in combination with cutting emissions. |
Scientific American November 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change and the Law (Extended edition) Even the Bush administration has started to recognize U.S. legal obligations to fight global warming. |
Salon.com November 17, 2000 Dawn MacKeen |
U.S. clash on global warming A new Department of Energy report undermines the position of U.S. negotiators at a U.N. conference on reducing greenhouse gases... |
Chemistry World June 30, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
Climate change roadmaps announced UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set out a 'Roadmap to Copenhagen' in advance of the climate change conference being held in the Danish capital in December. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
Hopes Sino -- US climate deal will spur global action in 2015 A historic announcement by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama has injected new momentum into the global fight against climate change. |
Finance & Development March 2008 William R. Cline |
Global Warming and Agriculture If steps are not taken to curb carbon emissions, agricultural productivity could fall dramatically, especially in developing countries. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Ozone-Destroying Chemicals to be Phased Out Faster Over 200 nations have agreed at a UN meeting to accelerate the phase-out of refrigerants that destroy the ozone layer. But the revised agreement may spur developing countries to churn out more ozone-depleting HCFCs in the short term. |
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson |
Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 William Sweet |
Energy & Climate: All Talk, No Action? Europe's made significant progress regarding global warming, but not toward energy independence |
BusinessWeek August 16, 2004 John Carey |
Global Warming Consensus is growing among scientists, governments, and business that they must act fast to combat climate change. This has already sparked efforts to limit CO2 emissions. Many companies are now preparing for a carbon-constrained world. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2015 Angeli Mehta |
China launches nationwide emissions trading scheme China has announced that it will implement a national emissions trading scheme in 2017, and encourage more power generation from renewables. |
Science News January 3, 2009 R.K. Pachauri |
Obama Administration Should Lead Energy Transition The director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi speaks about the changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration. |
Science News April 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud |
Bracing For Global Climate Change Is A Local Challenge The secretary-general of the U.N. World Meteorological Organization discusses whether global climate change is real. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2008 Arthur Rogers |
EU Extends Emissions Trading Scheme to Petrochemicals Proposals for reform of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) will impact the chemicals sector by extending the system to nitrous oxide (N 2O) emissions. |
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Heat on U.S. Climate Policy Recent events have focused a spotlight on the Bush administration's position on climate change on both the international and national stage. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2011 Andrew Turley |
Chemical industry fears over UK emissions plans Government plans to cut UK greenhouse gas emissions risk crippling the chemical sector and thereby harming chances of moving to a low emissions future |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Solar surge The sun is the only non-polluting energy source available to humankind on a huge scale and there is an urgent need to drive forward the science to exploit this fact and put into place clever technological solutions for reducing CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Belief in climate change plunges Recent polls suggest the public in the UK and US are becoming increasingly sceptical about climate change. |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Kyoto Ratified After a decade of negotiations, the Kyoto global climate change treaty is set to go into effect Feb. 16, but may remain relatively ineffectual on a global scale. |
Chemistry World October 30, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Economist's Review Marks Turning Point Scientists have welcomed an economist's review into the costs of climate change, which warns of global recession if greenhouse gas emissions are not stabilized. |
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Big business backs White House on climate change Thirteen of the US's largest companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart, have pledged to slash their carbon footprints. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Forest, Webster & Reilly |
Narrowing uncertainty in global climate change Unknowns hamper the initiation of climate-mitigation policies. |
Reason October 2005 Sallie Baliunas |
Full of Hot Air Book review: A climate alarmist takes on "criminals against humanity" in Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert the Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan. |
Scientific American February 2007 Jeffrey Sachs |
Moving beyond Kyoto To seriously address the issue of global climate change, policymakers need to establish a framework that extends through the end of the century |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 William Sweet |
Greenhouse Gas Trends Clearly there's no one-to-one relationship between Kyoto membership and success in meeting its targets. But it would be wrong to conclude that there's no relationship at all, or that the overall U.S. performance is better than Europe's. |
Chemistry World April 2007 Mark Peplow |
Editorial: Swindled? The bottom line is that just a few degrees increase in global average temperatures is likely to have a severe impact on human life. The silver lining of anthropogenic climate change is that, being man-made, at least we stand a chance of doing something about it. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Peter S. Heller & Muthukumara Mani |
Adapting to Climate Change Not much talked about but still worrisome are the economic and fiscal disruptions likely to be caused by global climate change, especially for developing countries. Policymakers should take steps to minimize these disruptions, and sooner rather than later... |
Outside December 2009 Grayson Schaffer |
Climate Change Solutions The mercury stops here! (Sort of.) When leaders from 193 countries meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7-18, their mission will be to save the planet from global warming. |
Salon.com July 18, 2001 Steve Kettmann |
Will Bush support the Kyoto Protocol? Pressure here and abroad may leave him no choice. |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Robert F. Keane |
The Green Advisor: More On Climate Change Climate change can present some healthy investment opportunities for your clients, even if you don't believe it's real. |
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. |
Salon.com April 5, 2002 Damien Cave |
Watson, come here, I want to fire you Angry at his predictions of global warming, the Bush administration and the energy industry strive to unseat a prominent scientist... |
Geotimes June 2007 Allyson K. Anderson |
A Political Comment On... Fire and Ice on Capitol Hill: Climate change and its impacts are being discussed with much fervor in the district these days. Nearly every congressional office has taken up the charge. |
Geotimes September 2006 Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
BusinessWeek December 3, 2009 John Carey |
Why Copenhagen Will Be Good for Business A deal at the climate conference would tip the balance toward renewables, and offer huge opportunities for companies ranging from Alstom to IBM |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Angeli Mehta |
Australian climate body saved by crowd sourced donations Backing from the Australian public has helped resurrect a body set up to provide independent information on climate change to government and citizens. |
Finance & Development March 2008 Mohan Munasinghe |
Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks Global warming is already taking its toll internationally. Making development more sustainable will help address climate change. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 15, 2014 Carmen Nobel |
Calderon: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderon says the United States Congress and Chinese coal plants are the biggest obstacles to fixing climate change. |
Chemistry World May 7, 2009 Karen Harries-Rees |
Australia delays carbon trading scheme The Australian government has delayed the start of its proposed emissions trading scheme by a year and introduced the possibility of tougher reduction targets, in a bid to ease pressure on companies during the global financial crisis. |