Clock Ticking To Stop Climate Change, Warns UN
Carbon emissions must be cut completely by 2100 if the rate of global warming is to be slowed, a new report warns. read more »
News category: In the news
Planting and burning billions of trees ‘will avert climate disaster’
Carbon dioxide will have to be extracted from the atmosphere and stored underground to prevent “severe, pervasive and irreversible” impacts of climate change, according to the UN’s scientific advisory body. read more »
Nicholas Stern: Tony Abbott should not prevent G20 debate on climate change
Leading climate economist Nicholas Stern says the Australian prime minister should put climate change high on the G20 agenda and not allow local politics to prevent important global discussions read more »
IPCC: rapid carbon emission cuts vital to stop severe impact of climate change
Most important assessment of global warming yet warns carbon emissions must be cut sharply and soon, but UN’s IPCC says solutions are available and affordable read more »
France, US lead voices of alarm at climate report
Yahoo News, 2 November
Tony Abbott must put climate change at front of the G20 agenda in Brisbane
The latest IPCC report shows why the Australian prime minister should encourage G20 leaders to discuss climate change read more »
UN climate change report to warn of ‘severe, pervasive’ effects of global warming
Flooding, dangerous heatwaves, ill health and violent conflicts among likely risks if the world keeps burning fossil fuels at current rates, IPCC expected to say read more »
Letter to The Times
The Times, 1 Novmeber
Irreversible climate change would result from continued inaction
A pending U.N. report notes that a lack of fast action to combat global warming will lead to severe impacts read more »