Climate change: special report

Can we pay someone else to take responsibility for our carbon emissions?

The three-bedroom family home near Bridgend – which took just 16 weeks to construct – can export more power to the grid than it consumes, experts say.

Tens of thousands of people across 150 countries take to the streets to call for action on climate change. Join Channel 4 News at the London march, and see pictures from around the world.

Jon Snow is in Greenland looking at climate change with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who believes that this is the greatest threat to mankind’s capacity to live together in harmony.

The powerful attending the World Economic Forum in Davos must create the impression of action. What they will not do, writes Andrew Simms, is change the system to meet the needs of society.

As Naderev “Yeb” Sano, the Philippines commissioner for climate change, enters day 10 of a hunger strike, a row between rich and poor nations threatens to stall talks in Poland.

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 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launches its latest report on the prospects for the world’s environment.

Scientists deliver a bleak vision of a future in which storms are more frequent and the sea has risen by up to 82cm, as they say they are more certain than ever that mankind drives global warming.

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.

Can a castle or a thatched cottage be eco-friendly? The National Trust thinks so, and is investing £3.5m in a bid to spend less on energy bills and more on conservation.

Scientists say that recent years of wet weather are concrete evidence of the effects of man-made climate change, and more extreme weather will now be the norm in the UK.

Nearly 200 countries agree to extend Kyoto Protocol that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries after hard-fought sessions and despite objections from Russia.

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.