The international effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions – as currently enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol – is a miserable “failure” that needs to be replaced, according to a study in the journal Nature.
“The Kyoto protocol… as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions, has failed,” it says. “It has produced no demonstrable reductions in emissions […]

The British Government is planning a U-turn on its pledges to combat climate change that “effectively abolishes” its targets to rapidly expand the use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
Leaked documents seen by the Guardian newspaper show that Prime Minister, Gordon Brown will be advised today that the target Tony Blair […]

Just as the race to claim the resource spoils of the Arctic is heating up, so too now it seems is the race for the Antarctic.
The UK is planning to claim sovereign rights over a vast area of the remote seabed off Antarctica. The submission to the United Nations covers more than 1m sq km […]

They say a week is a long-time in politics, and so it is for ex-politicians. Earlier this week, Al Gore was under fire from a British High Court Judge for making “alarmist” and “exaggerated” claims in his film An Inconvenient Truth.
Today, Gore will silence his critics with the announcement that, along with the IPCC, he […]

Its a very busy fall for us here at Oil Change International. As our concern over both the war and global warming is growing, we’re putting a lot of effort into manifesting that concern into protest.
The connection between protest and change is real, and important to understand. In a recent academic study […]