Latest climate change news
EU has already hit Kyoto target: claims
Sandbag claims bloc is 21.4% below 1990 emission levels, surpassing the 20% goal set in 2008
UNICEF: Children bear brunt of climate health impacts
Children are both more exposed to the impacts of climate change and less able to cope with them, writes UNICEF’s Jazmin Burgess
Understanding local weather key to coping with climate change
Leading climate scientist highlights the importance of regional data in understanding and reacting to the effects of global climate change
EU denies climate policy hinges on German election
Campaigners argue German election could alter EU position but bloc’s top climate change negotiator says Germany will always aim for “pole position” on climate
Figueres: US and China discussing carbon market link-up
RTCC’s daily round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
Food in the shadow of climate change
Climate change’s health threat that is easiest to understand is hunger. Dalvir Kular takes an optimistic look at how we can bolster food security
Comment: Solar PV trade wars threaten entire industry
Sector on brink of competing with fossil fuels but China-EU could derail years of progress, writes Joe Curtin
EU greenhouse gas emissions lowest since 1990
Latest data release from European Environment Agency (EEA) shows fall of 3.3% in 2011
Ban Ki-moon could oversee climate target debate
EU suggests UN meeting of world leaders could host debate to set emission reduction targets by end of 2014
Apple hires former EPA boss Jackson
RTCC’s daily round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
Health impacts will hit climate migrants even harder
Climate change is forcing displacement and migration now says Jonny Elliot, and the health impacts will make the situation worse
Governments face uphill struggle to hit UN energy goals – report
Assessment of the sustainable energy challenge suggests rate of electrification for the poorest must double
Panama’s forest tribes want UN carbon projects scrapped
Indigenous people say the REDD scheme is ignoring their concerns
Infograph: The world’s greenhouse gases by source
ASN Bank and the Ecofys consultancy update infographic charting the world’s emissions
IEA: USA could turn to coal as shale gas prices rise
RTCC’s daily round-up of the top climate change and green economy stories from around the world
The hidden health threats of extreme weather events
Cold, mould and carbon monoxide are just some of the surprising health impacts of extreme weather events that fly under the radar, writes Healthy Planet’s Izzy Braithwaite
Comment: Health overlooked in our response to climate change
Protecting health and welfare is a central tenet of the UN climate change convention but is largely absent from the debate, says Isobel Braithwaite
Climate change threatens health in the new megacities
With half the world now living in cities, a focus on the climate impacts on health in urban environments could save lives, writes Shuo Zhang of Healthy Planet UK
Ashton: Help Obama sidestep Congress and sign UN climate deal
Efforts by the US to impose a voluntary global deal must be resisted, former UK climate ambassador John Ashton warns
The Keystone XL debate in 10 letters to John Kerry
A small sample of the one million comments received by the State Department sketches out the core arguments on both sides