How to direct the continuing investments that will be necessary in buildings, transport, industrial processes and energy systems towards low carbon technologies?

Hard climate targets with firm dates

‘Above all,” Talleyrand warned his supporters, “not too much zeal.”

Tim Flannery nailed it when he reflected that one of the obstacles to decisive action on climate change is that the whole idea of global warming has become a cliché even before it has been understood.

There are many ways to interpret this, ...

An area of the Congo seven times the size of Belgium is under siege by loggers, who leave a legacy of denuded landscapes, displaced people, and fauna without habitat. There are at least 11,000 identified plant species in the country, of which 3,200 are endemic to the DRC.

Though he did not drop into the press conference by parachute, airline mogul and consummate showman Richard Branson made an impression last week when he offered a $25 million prize to an inventor canny enough to devise a machine capable of stripping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

In case you were hoping climate change would spare North America…it won’t. The IPCC is releasing a report detailing what North Americans can expect. Expect hot weather, more pollution, and more pollen. Brace yourselves.

Imagine discovering a Roman newspaper from, say, 23 August 410 AD.

On that day, the Goths had the city under siege. They had already demanded, and had been given, five thousand pounds of gold, thirty thousand pounds of silver, four thousand silken tunics, ...

Tyler Hamilton of the Star writes in his blog, Clean Break, about the rapid growth of industrial-scale geothermal power generation. He quotes from a new report from the Geothermal Energy Association:

Deborah Kaplan speaks about working with Business Objects to develop databases that can help deal with the problem of global warming.