As Paul Brown says: “There can be few people who have written more about climate in the past 20 years than me”. The former environment correspondent for the London-based Guardian, Brown has written about climate change for twenty years. Fourteen months ago he left the newspaper to write his second book on the issue, called … Read More
Author: Andy Rowell
Blair Urged to Act on Climate Change
UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair is in the last chance saloon on climate, according to environmental campaigners. The Stop Climate Chaos coalition has pledged to turn up the heat on the Prime Minister with the launch of its “I Count” campaign highlighting that, as Mr Blair’s premiership melts away, climate change is the most important … Read More
Water for Millions at Risk as Glaciers Melt Away
Millions of people in South America and Asia face chronic water shortages within decades as the world’s glaciers and ice caps are now in terminal decline because of climate change. A survey has revealed that the rate of melting across the world has sharply accelerated in recent years, placing even previously stable glaciers in jeopardy.
Carbon Trading: “Bad for the South, Bad for the North, and Bad for the Climate”
The increasingly politicized debate over climate change promises to heat up further with the publication of an exhaustively-documented but highly-readable new book, “Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power”. The book argues that the dominant “carbon trading” approach to climate change is both ineffective and unjust.
Chevron and DOE Establish Alliance On Biofuels
Chevron may be reeling from being awarded a Greenwash award last week, but the company insists it is doing its bit for the environment. It has just announced a five-year strategic research alliance to advance the development of transportation biofuels with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Happy Holidays North America
Do you know what today is? Of course you do. The 9th October is Canadian Thanksgiving and Columbus Day in the US. But it is also the day of the year that humanity begins to rake up an ecological overdraft driven by unsustainable exploitation of the world’s resources, according to a report by Global Footprint … Read More
Chevron Wins Greenwash Award
Got nothing better to do this evening? Well why not hop along to Chevron’s Annual Conservation Awards. Amazon Watch, Amnesty International USA, San Ramon Cares about Ecuador, FACES, West County Toxics Coalition, and the Californians for Clean Energy/Yes on 87 are looking for people to join them this evening at 5:00pm on the sidewalk outside … Read More
Clampdown on Air Travel “A Must”
Leading climate scientists have told the government that a “severe clampdown” on air travel will be necessary for the UK government to meet its CO2 reduction targets. Researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change believe that the number of flights will have to be frozen at today’s levels or even lower to avoid catastrophic … Read More
Police Evict Anti-Shell Protestors in Ireland
Police have clashed heavily with local campaigners fighting Shell’s plans to lay a pipeline in County Mayo in Ireland. The community had managed to block construction of the project for more than a year. But earlier this week about 170 police were deployed at dawn at the proposed pipeline terminal to remove the protesters who … Read More
Climate: The Time to Act is Now
The world must act now to curb climate change, as doing nothing will cost more long-term. That was the message from the UK to the closed-door meeting in Mexico of representatives of 20 of the world’s most-polluting nations. Ministers from G8 nations are joined at the event by representatives from the emerging economies of China, … Read More