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Ghana’s women set to engineer solar revolution in rural villages
Social Venture Africa’s pilot project in January 2014 aims to turn Ghanaian mothers into solar engineers and entrepreneurs
Kelly Rigg: Women’s leadership will strengthen climate action
This week 100 of the world’s leading sustainability leaders meet in New York. They’re all women, and they are ambitious for change
Supermarkets leading drive to ditch climate warming HFCs
London-based Environmental Investigation Agency says over 2,400 UK stores are now using a group of non-warming coolants
Jody Williams: tar sands are major threat to indigenous people
Winner of 1997 Nobel Peace Prize tells RTCC pipeline is major threat to the indigenous First Nations people of Alberta
Climate change’s greatest hit: cellist writes song from NASA data
Using climate change data, a student has composed a song that illustrates how temperatures have risen since 1880
Comment: COP19 must discuss losses caused by climate change
COP 19 attendees should fund research on financial and human losses from climate change related disasters
Traffic and cooking account for 80% of China air pollution
Coal briquettes and traffic emissions linked to majority of black carbon suspended above China and East Asia
BBC Radio set to air ‘energy day’ powered by renewables
Radio 5Live plans to generate energy for 12 hours of radio from wind, solar, biofuel, cycling and hydropower
Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise set to defy Russia polar ban
Greenpeace ship denied entry to the Northern Sea Route by the Russian authorities, but campaigners say they could still proceed
Giant polar bear heads to London for Arctic parade
Greenpeace’s latest Arctic campaign is a double decker sized polar bear marched through London by 15 puppeteers
UK climate resilience levels branded a ‘postcode lottery’
London and Leicester are well equipped to deal with climate change, but other cities are falling behind on adaptation plans
Obama unleashes climate change Twitter rampage
President’s Twitter feed takes climate deniers to task and calls for action to address rising greenhouse gas levels – but not everyone is impressed
UK farmers report increase in extreme weather events
Erratic weather conditions and heavy rains are devastating harvests and making the UK more reliant on imports
NZ research highlights urban solar power potential
Urban sprawl may not be as bad for the environment as we thought – as long as every home is fitted with solar panels and electric cars become the norm.
Climate change could lead to more wars – report
An exhaustive study of a wide range of conflicts over thousands of years has found that rising temperatures are inevitably linked to an increase in violence.
No plans for Marshall Islands climate evacuation says minister
Vice President Tony de Brum tells RTCC he’s confident islands will remain in existence, and says September climate summit in Majuro will be critical for ambition
Nobel Laureates take stand against Keystone XL
Desmond Tutu, Leymah Gbowee and Shirin Ebadi have written to Obama protesting the Keystone pipeline
Golf faces tough climate change adaptation drive
Golf courses around the world could be facing a bleak future unless they move quickly to introduce climate change adaptation strategies
Evangelicals tackle US Congress on climate change
Over 200 Evangelicals write to Congress about the religious imperatives for acting on climate change
85% of Filipinos say they are feeling effects of climate change
Eight out of ten of Filipinos are being personally impacted by climate change, including extreme weather events and health problems