The Global GMO Free Coalition brings together 60 groups across six continents with over 4.5 million members - all committed to fighting GMO / biotech industry propaganda. Meanwhile Russia is leading the way to GMO freedom ...
… Global GMO-free Coalition launches with 4.5 … GMOs Food Farming Health no-gmo-cut.jpg The Global GMO Free Coalition brings together 60 … is leading the way to GMO freedom ... The Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), with over …
India has blocked progress on an agreement to reduce emissions of the HFC super-powerful greenhouse gases.
… India - the new global warming villain Oliver Tickell | 25th October 2013 News HFC Climate Change Global Warming India Montreal Protocol India … discussions of the HFC-reduction proposals. A global phase-down of HFCs would mitigate the …
The latest text of the Paris Agreement on climate change published today sets 1.5C as its 'long term temperature goal', half a degree lower than previously agreed. It's a big victory for poor 'climate vulnerable' countries - and a blow for Saudi Arabia.
… current position: "In order to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate … so as: (a) To hold the increase in the global average temperature [below 1.5C] [or] … levels by ensuring deep reductions in global greenhouse gas [net] emissions ... " …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Their latest report, issued today at the UN climate talks in Lima, shows exceptional heat and flooding in many parts of the world.
… of the world is largely due to record high global sea surface temperatures, which will … Provisional Statement on the Status of the Global Climate in 2014 indicated that the global average air temperature over land and …
Forget CO2, say NASA scientists – by tackling soot emissions we could really dent global warming
… Tackling soot emissions to combat global warming The Ecologist | 9th March 2009 News Soot Emissions C02 Global Warming Deforestation Farming Climate … tackling soot emissions we could really dent global warming We tend to imagine that as a …
Record global temperatures in 2015 and 2016 are causing a humanitarian crisis that is more than double that of conflict as a cause of displacement and migration, the WMO stated today. Heatwaves, flood, drought and fires are all contributing to the declining food and water security affecting over 60 million people worldwide.
… COP22 fort-mcmurray-fire-cut.jpg Record global temperatures in 2015 and 2016 are … Organization (WMO) has warned, with global temperatures even higher than the … in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 2016's global temperatures are approximately 1.2C …
What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.
… Kyoto2: how to manage the global greenhouse Oliver Tickell | 1st … the protocol may have created a dynamic global carbon market turning over $13,641 … not just in its lack of success in slowing global warming, but also because it has …
The United Kingdom Independence Party will ban the teaching of climate change in schools, if it wins the 2015 elections, says UKIP education spokesman Derek Clark MEP.
… UKIP to ban 'all teaching of global warming' The Ecologist | 17th January … a pledge to ban Al Gore's Oscar-winning global warming documentary An Inconvenient … video which needs banning; all teaching of global warming being caused in any way by …
New research predicts that coastal regions face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the 21st century - to $100 trillion annually, more than the world's entire economic product today.
… of the National Academy of Sciences , global average storm surge damages could … surges will cost between 0.3 and 9.3% of global GDP by 2100, taking into acount … 99.9%, the authors conclude. A comprehensive global simulation The study , led by the …
UN wants to use the figures to push for a wider adoption of more intensive forms of dairy production, which it says produce less emissions per unit of milk
… Dairy sector accounts for 4 per cent of global emissions The Ecologist | 21st April … sector as a whole contributed 18 per cent of global GHG emissions but this is the first of … the next 12 months. Regional variation It's global emission figures for the dairy sector …
The REN21 Renewables 2018 Global Status Report was published this week. Britain leads the world only in the amount it has cut investment in solar and wind energy. And state subsidies to oil and gas continue to distort the market slow progress to clean energy. OLIVER TICKELL reports
… Fuels Wind farm The REN21 Renewables 2018 Global Status Report was published this week. … according to the REN21 Renewables 2018 Global Status Report (GSR), published this … an estimated 70 percent of net additions to global power generation capacity, up from 63 …
UK pension funds are betting an estimated £1.5 billion on global food prices - £180 per average UK pension saver - according to a report released today by the World Development Movement. And the speculation is increasing food costs for the world's poorest people ...
… are betting an estimated £1.5 billion on global food prices - £180 per average UK … commodity markets in recent years, pushing global prices upwards and fuelling global hunger and poverty. High on the list of …
The market can solve climate change and tackle world debt if we start to sell emissions right
… meaningful results in the absence of a global cap – must be abandoned. The main … developed and promoted by Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute. The key elements of … emissions should be subject to an annual global cap; that the cap should contract …
The UK is to create a fully protected marine in the South Pacific more than three times bigger than the UK itself, covering some 830,000 square kilometres. The move may herald further huge designations in the UK's 'overseas territories' which encompass over 6 million square kilometres of ocean.
… marine ecosystems on the planet and are of globally significant biological value. Over … and corals. Forty-eight of these species are globally threatened - such as the critically … British jurisdiction, and has increased the global fully protected area by a quarter. …
On current trends global CO2 emissions may begin to reduce within a few years, thanks to the growth in renewable energy. But rigorous policies in China, the US and the EU will be needed.
… Change Renewables Energy On current trends global CO2 emissions may begin to reduce … in the newly published in the 'Trends in global CO2 emissions: 2013 Report' by the PBL … a more permanent slowdown in the increase in global CO2 emissions, and ultimately of …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
… renewables, writes Oliver Tickell...... So global warming is now "unequivocal" according to the latest IPCC report, global temperatures are at "unprecedented" … these findings make? None whatsoever. The global warming sceptics and deniers continue …
Al Jazeera's five-part series, 'Corporations on Trial' looks at some of the rapidly growing law suits across the world today.
… Al Jazeera Film: <i>A Case of Global Proportions</i> The Ecologist | 11th … the Corporations on Trial series, A Case of Global Proportions visits Kivalina, a village … misinformation and 'false science' about global warming from the energy comapnies is …
The International Chamber of Shipping has committed the industry to legally binding emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement. Unlike the aviation industry, it will make no use of carbon 'offsets', but will reach its targets by increasing efficiency and moving to lower carbon fuels.
… that are already being delivered by the global industry." At an official UNFCCC side … 2012 figures , shipping accounts for 2.2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. 'We will go … to be enacted by 2023 should establish a global mechanism for ensuring that these …
Get into an argument with a climate change sceptic, and sooner or later they’ll trot out the old arguments about it being all due to cosmic rays, or the sun.
… cosmic ray and solar influence theories of global warming The Ecologist | 6th February 2009 News Global Warming Climate Change Cosmic Rays Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change …
Technology companies should be honest with customers about the origin of the metals in their products, says NGO Global Witness
… Mobile Phones Congo Minerals drc picture.jpg Global Witness says mineral mining is fuelling … of the metals in their products, says NGO Global Witness Demand for metals found in … according to human rights campaigners. Global Witness, which investigates the links …
This Saturday bring your bike to a global day of action organised by Moving Planet to show the government we can move beyond fossil fuels
… .jpg This Saturday bring your bike to a global day of action organised by Moving … September, 350.org launches Moving Planet - a global day of events focused on moving the … clean energy. In the UK, you can join the global Moving Planet campaign by becoming part …
The entire marine food chain is in danger of collapse because of a decline in tiny phytoplankton, which scientists are linking to climate change and rising ocean surface temperatures.
… Marine food chain hit by ocean global warming The Ecologist | 29th July 2010 … rising sea surface temperatures linked to global warming are the reason for the decline. … of our fisheries.' Useful links Full study: Global phytoplankton decline over the past …
A Commons environmental audit committee has called for industrialised nations to change their patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and reversed
… Deforestation accounts for 17 per cent of global emissions A Commons environmental audit … patterns of consumption if alarming rates of global deforestation are to be arrested and … in order to mitigate ‘a huge threat to the global climate’. The Commons environmental …
The trial of the ex-Liberian President - accused of purchasing arms with funds from the illegal timber and diamond trade - could lead to a wave of prosecutions using the 'pillage' theory
… Pillage International Law Charles Taylor Global Witness gavel.jpg The trial of the … displaced. Andie Lambe, campaign leader for Global Witness's international justice team, … that make a difference?"'. Patrick Alley, of Global Witness , said that to date, efforts to …