Targeting the Root Causes of Disaster Risk: UNEP Launches Firs...

President of the Environment Council and Ireland's Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan T.D., will chair the meeting of the EU Council (Environment) in Luxembourg tomorrow, during which EU Ministers for the ...

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queenslandwhich has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross. "It's very effective. It's inspired some members of our congregation to ...

GOVERNMENTS around the world have just received one of the most important scientific reports ever written. It provides the starkest assessment yet of how the earth's climate is responding to rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and ...

Climate change and its consequences present an enormous threat to human development today. It is with this understanding that UN agencies are meeting in Bonn, Germany, to advance agreements on climate change, anchored around the UN Framework ...

CLIMATE change does not discriminate, society does. Rich or poor, its impacts yield similar outcomes. Just as much, when the rainfalls it does not fall on one man's housetop. The difference only comes in the scale of responses. However, ...

IN a renewed effort to mitigate the impact of natural disaster in Economic Community of West African (ECOWAS) region, member countries have moved to strengthen preparedness and response capacities to climate change and natural disasters. In 2012, ...

Oslo - Many species of birds, amphibians and corals not currently under threat will be at risk from climate change and have been wrongly omitted from conservation planning, an international study said on Wednesday. The Amazon rainforest was among ...

Negotiators at last week's UN climate change negotiations in Bonn wrestled with the question of how to go about discussing the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation the source of about 15% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. ...

The International Energy Agency urges governments to take interim steps to reduce emissions even before a hoped-for climate treaty, saying aggressive measures can still limit global warming. Over the next seven years, aggressive efforts to tackle ...