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At the launch of a UN climate change report, a leading expert admits dealing with climate change is not a free lunch – but adds that, for the sake of our future, it is a lunch worth buying.
As the Warsaw climate change meeting opens, there is already a mandate to prepare a new global warming treaty. Environmental lawyer Alistair McGlone asks whether meaningful negotiations can now start.
The most important conclusion of the latest IPCC report on climate change is that it is more than likely global warming will exceed the agreed target of two degrees by the end of the century.
The conclusions of today’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is stark. Environmental lawyer Alistair McGlone asks if there is the political will to respond with concrete action.
Flooding, famine, drought and disease – the impact of climate change predicted in the IPCC scientists’ report could have a negative impact for millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.
For some people Greenland’s melting ice-cap signals not only climate change but the end of a way of life, while to others it marks an opportunity for new investment. Tom Clarke meets both sides.
The second largest block of freshwater ice on the planet melted more this year than ever before, contributing to rising sea levels and even possibly the weather. Tom Clarke sets sail to check it out.
After days of drizzle, this morning it started to snow in northern Greenland.
The planet could be facing a catastrophic 5 degree temperature rise, and we are losing time to address the threat of climate change, one of the government’s leading scientists tells Channel 4 News.
Households struggling to pay their water bills are to receive help through new social tariffs, according to the government.
Hope of meaningful agreement at the Rio Summit on Sustainable Development is all but gone. Could this be the last time leaders agree to meet to pledge action on the environment?
The Prince of Wales urges world leaders to adopt a better, more integrated approach to issues like climate change in a pre-recorded speech to a UN sustainability conference in Brazil.
Eastern areas of England are now officially in drought and as Darshna Soni reports, water firms are warning customers to expect restrictions this summer, unless there’s significant rain.
Negotiations at the UN climate change conference in South Africa continue into Saturday – but prospects are fading for any internationally binding deal before the Kyoto Protocol expires.
The EU climate commissioner says time is short as she pushes for support on a roadmap for global cuts to emissions – but critics say any deal will be too little, too late.
