Latest climate change news
Turning up the heat on energy efficiency
Switching residential heating from fossil fuels to heat pumps and CHP boilers would slash 15% off current UK CO2 levels
Dangerous levels of climate change possible in this lifetime
Dangerous levels of climate change could be seen within the lifetime of people living today, unless a steep reduction in global emissions are put in place, according to two reports published in Nature Climate Change
Off the menu: The climate change food crises
Climate change will threaten a number of crops including coffee, chocolate and rice, according to a number of agricultural research institutes
Emerging economies most vulnerable to climate change
New map shows emerging economies in the global south will be most at risk of climate change, but globalisation will mean all countries will be impacted
Putting children at the heart of climate change risk reduction
Children and young people across the world are being put at the heart of climate change adaptation and risk reduction schemes, for International Disaster Reduction Day 2011
Migration from climate change underestimated
With 42 million people were displaced by natural disasters in 2010, policy makers and aid agencies must consider planned migration in the face of global climate change, making it part of the ‘solution’, says a new report from the Foresight Group
$1 trillion needed to ensure electricity for all
Ensuring universal access to energy will mean $1 trillion of investment by 2030, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), with 60 per cent going to sub-Saharan Africa
17 per cent savings for energy smart households
As domestic energy deals rise above £1000 a year, “smart home” technologies could provide customers with a vital aid to tackling energy efficiency
Biofuel flights clouded in controversy
As the first biofuel planes take to the sky in the UK and Spain; hailed as the first step towards lower emissions, green groups condemn them as environmentally harmful
Exclusive: Figueres ‘hopeful’ over COP17 climate talks
The head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change tells RTCC that she is hopeful real progress can me made at COP17 in Durban.
Praise for UK government from UNFCCC chief Figueres
Head of UNFCCC Christiana Figueres tells RTCC that the British government is leading the way with policies to fight dangerous climate change