Climate Change News

Activists split on Oxford University partial divestment

NEWS: Reactions to university rejection of coal and tar sands range from “great leadership” to handing back degrees in disgust

BLOG: Generating your own supply of electricity is straightforward and cheap – so easy that RTCC editor Ed King had a go

ANALYSIS: Business chiefs will showcase low carbon plans this week, but concerns persist they are giving cover to polluting sectors

NEWS: President of 2015 climate summit says he’s encouraged by countries backing calls to radically cut CO2 emissions in second half of century

ANALYSIS: Is Greenpeace crackdown a plan of Modi government to stifle alternative voices under the cover of national interest?

NEWS: World authority on global warming moves to add shifts in population and economies in its forecasts in Vienna meeting

ANALYSIS: Experts are divided over the extent of an overheating planet’s role in the South American country’s chronic dry spell

NEWS: Analysis published ahead of a vote in Norway’s parliament argues coal is a financial and climate liability to be avoided

NEWS: Harper government says plan is “fair and ambitious”, but critics point to reliance on carbon credits and inaction on tar sands

NEWS: Amid mixed results for fossil fuel divestment campaigns, Oxford alumni are threatening to hand back their degrees

ANALYSIS: Academic Stephan Lewandowsky says barrage of criticism has seeped into research, leading experts to frame climate facts as uncertain

NEWS: Developed countries must lead emissions curbs and make good on finance pledge say major emitters key to climate pact

NEWSLETTER: All you need to know from the last seven days of international climate change and energy politics

INTERVIEW: Foreign minister Tony de Brum has maritime emissions in his sights in the latest bid to safeguard his country’s future

BLOG: Citizens of the world invited to submit ideas in in climate action contest to influence negotiators ahead of December summit

NEWS: Arvind Subramanian says Delhi’s record on climate change is far more impressive than developed countries give it credit for

NEWS: Analysis from Greenpeace suggests use of world’s most polluting fossil fuel by top emitter could be in terminal decline

NEWS: Bloc accused of ‘cowardice’ after wiping requests to ditch billion-dollar bumps for coal and oil from annual review of member states

NEWS: A Marshall Islands plea for climate action fell on deaf ears at IMO, leaving CO2 to rise unchecked

NEWS: Executive secretary of UN climate convention rejects notion carbon curbs will slow growth, admits 2015 deal will not be a “silver bullet”