'Unburnable carbon' report says fossil fuel reserves can't be ...

The Earth has not seen these levels of CO2 in millions of years, long before humans existed said the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. Comments 0WASHINGTON -- The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has broken above 400 parts per ...

Grantham Institute says decisions taken today must be scrutinised to avoid 'locking-in' climate vulnerabilities Climate-proofing new offices, hospitals, schools, roads and railways should be mandated to protect the UK's economy against the growing ...

It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert, Lord Stern, following the news ...

THE world is going to fry - unless there is change soon. There is weakening political will to make national and international targets for carbon reduction stick, no strong business and financial coalition prepared to lead and a weakening groundswell ...

My interview with Jeremy Grantham, the environmental philanthropist and legendary fund manager, was published in the Guardian on Saturday. As I have done for my interviews with the likes of Al Gore, Bill McKibben and James Lovelock (in 2010 and ...

The reason fossil fuel firms are not trying to reduce their carbon emissions could be due to uncertainty on climate and energy policy, suggests the Economist in a recent editorial. The paper cites cuts in renewable energy support schemes as one of ...

The idea that Shell might be doing its bit to save the world from environmental disaster is something Shell to Sea campaigners might find odd, but in fact the organisation has been seriously examining the issue for more than a decade. The senior ...

Data from stations monitoring concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have indicated that the world has reached 400 parts per million (ppm) of the climate-changing gas for the first time in human history [1]. Responding to the news, David Nussbaum, ...

Responding to a report published today (26 April) by the Energy and Climate Change Committee on shale gas in the UK, WWF expressed dismay that the report appeared not to acknowledge the fundamental incoherence between exploiting shale gas and ...