Ed King
Ed previously worked as a Producer on BBC Radio 5 Live. He holds an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the London School of Oriental and African Studies, specialising in global energy and climate policy.
It’s time countries took climate-linked migration seriously
COMMENT: Climate negotiations must take increased human mobility into account, argues the head of the International Organization for Migration
Arctic warming “twice as fast” as anywhere else on Earth
NEWS: Sea ice levels showing signs of recovery, but rising temperatures spell radical change for polar region
Is the UN’s climate change body still fit for purpose?
COMMENT: It’s time for global climate negotiations to deliver results, argues Saleemul Huq, reflecting on the recent Lima set of talks
Rise in weather extremes linked to climate change, say scientists
NEWS: Lethal heat waves, ice storms and big freezes could become regular events if greenhouse gas emissions are not controlled
Seven radical ideas for a 2015 climate change deal
ANALYSIS: Tax oil, wipe out emissions by 2050, divide up a carbon budget: how high could the Paris climate agreement aim?
EU decides to ratify Kyoto Protocol extension
NEWS: Move by Brussels offers some integrity to beleaguered treaty, one year before UN hopes to agree global climate deal
People power central to solving Latin America’s air pollution crisis
COMMENT: Citizen-led initiatives in the developing world have the potential to transform cities for the good
2014 likely to be Europe’s warmest since 1500s
NEWS: Calls for climate compensation from top polluters likely to grow as odds on warming years plummet
Australia will respond to climate pressure – David Cameron
NEWS: UK prime minister calls on Canberra to step up and make a greater contribution to cutting climate-warming emissions
Cheap coal poses climate and health dilemma for India
NEWS: Experts warn coal use is growing unsustainably, in the absence of effective regulation or support for low carbon development
Winners and losers at the UN’s Lima climate talks
ANALYSIS: No one country can leave Peru saying it got everything it wanted, but the building blocks of a global deal remain in place
With $10bn banked, what next for the Green Climate Fund?
COMMENT: Money on its own is not enough – countries need to learn how to use finance more efficiently and transparently
Emissions growth slows as economies clean up – research
NEWS: Fossil fuel use and industries emitted a record 35.3Gt of CO2 in 2013, but slowdown shows economies depend less on polluting industry
US-China chat broke impasse at Lima climate talks
NEWS: Warming relationship between superpowers key as countries work towards global emissions deal in 2015
Five steps to saving Brazil’s Amazon rainforest
NEWS: Destruction of rainforest likely to endanger global climate unless it can be stopped and restored
Rising concern over invisible threat to Antarctic glaciers
NEWS: As ocean temperatures rise, warmer currents are attacking the Antarctic ice sheet from below, say scientists
Kennedy Space Centre operations face growing climate threat
NEWS: Rising sea levels and repeated storm damage to natural coastal defences pose challenge to NASA operations
Lima Call for Climate Action – what was decided?
BRIEFING: Details on key agreements reached at the UN’s COP20 climate change conference in Peru
Nine lessons from the Lima climate talks
BLOG: Latin American cities are choking to death, that US-China emissions pact didn’t solve everything and other nuggets from COP20
Late deal in Lima saves UN climate talks from collapse
UPDATED: Hopes for 2015 agreement to slow global warming remain alive after dramatic late deal in Peru