Archbishop Desmond Tutu, scholar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, makes a passionate call for G8 action on global warming in today’s Huffington Post. “I can think of three billion reasons why President Bush should agree to take action on climate change at this week’s G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, one for every person in the […]

Development, debt and environmental organizations called on the G8 and other wealthy countries today to pay more than $50 billion a year to help cover the costs of dealing with climate change. This amount will only grow if the G8 fails to show leadership at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
The group included Oil Change […]

Twenty four hours after saying he could get a deal on climate, cold political reality has caught up with Tony Blair as George Bush rejected any binding targets for reducing greenhouse gases.
Mr Blair and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, want the G8 to agree that world temperatures should rise by no more than two degrees […]

Tony Blair has insisted he could persuade President Bush to agree to a global target for a “substantial cut” in greenhouse gases within a framework sanctioned by the United Nations.
In an interview with the Guardian on the eve of the G8 summit, the British prime minister said both elusive goals were now achievable and that […]

A coalition of relief and development agencies like Christian Aid and Tearfund will warn 600 delegates to the ‘UN 3rd World Conference on Disaster Reduction’ in Geneva today of the dangers of climate change.
The agencies will warn delegates that “unless urgent preventative action is taken by governments, climate change will worsen the impact of disasters […]