This decade looks set to be the hottest on record and this year is almost certain to be the seventh warmest worldwide since 1850.
Eight years in the past decade are in the world’s ten hottest, according to Met Office statistics released to coincide with Bali conference.
In the UK 2007 is expected to be the third […]

Its the greenhouse Groundhog day, again. How often has America prevented progress over international agreements on climate change?
The US is trying to remove a reference to 25-40% cuts in carbon pollution by 2020 for developed countries, which remained in the draft roadmap released by the UN yesterday.

Great analysis on the Bali conference from Charles Clover, the environment correspondent from the UK right-wing Telegraph, which we reprint in full:
“As an exhibition of hypocrisy, the UN climate change conference in Bali takes some beating. The Indonesian President Yudhoyono is there, playing delegates the video of a song he wrote about saving the planet, […]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened the “high-level” talks in Bali with a call to action.
“We gather because the time for equivocation is over,” said Mr Ban. “Climate change is the defining challenge of our age. The science is clear; climate change is happening, the impact is real. The time to act is now. We […]

A “breakthrough” on deforestation is set to be the first success of the UN climate talks in Bali. Diplomats are said to be confident that the “road map” to a new climate-change treaty would contain a crucial reference to forests.
That would be an important first for a sector omitted from the Kyoto Protocol. Deforestation is […]