Al Gore used the occasion of his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize lecture yesterday to tell the world in powerful, stark language: Climate change is a “real, rising, imminent and universal” threat. Whilst delegates try to trash out a deal in...
Slowly but surely the unthinkable is becoming thinkable. The days of “peak” are fast approaching, and such is the shortage of new areas coming on stream that there is a “production ceiling” to the amount of oil that can be...
A study of the world's power stations has shown the extent to which developed countries produce more carbon dioxide per head than emerging economies. Australians were found to be the world's worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much...
When UN boss Ban Ki-moon clambered out of a Chilean Air Force transport plane and planted his boots in the snows of Antarctica, he became the first head of the UN ever to visit the world's icy underbelly. It might...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has made climate change a priority, will visit the Antarctic and the Amazon rain forest during a South American tour starting next week, the United Nations has confirmed. The visits will be "so that he can...
People concerned about the environmental and social downside of the tar sands boom, should read the Guardian today, with a long feature on the “dark side” of the frontier town of Fort McMurray, which is an oil sands boom town...
Global coalition calls for an end to ‘oil aid’ October 19, 2007, Washington, DC. – More than 200 organisations from 56 countries are calling on the World Bank and other international financial institutions to end subsidies to the oil industry....
Ecuador has reached a deal with protesters in the oil-rich Amazon region to end a three-day protest that cost the country $2 million in revenue. Earlier this week dozens of villagers in the Shushufindi region in the Sucumbios province blocked...
Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva has urged African countries to take up the use of biofuels as a way of improving their economic independence. He is starting a four-nation tour of Africa, offering help from Brazil in developing...
Some good news for a change. Yesterday the Clinton Global Initiative highlighted the Ecuadorian proposal about "Leaving Ecuador's Oil in the Ground" which seeks to avoid carbon emissions and save the Yasuni Rainforest. The “Yasuni Proposal” as it is known...
