The publication of the government's draft Climate Change Bill this week signalled the latest round of the escalating competition between David Cameron and Tony Blair to take the title of climate change champion of the world. Following hard on the EU measures, the government's bill set out more radical targets than before and promises to deliver them – a promise that will be reinforced by a new committee of independent auditors.
Climate Change Botch? Isabel Hilton | 15th March 2007 News Gordon Brown David Cameron Tony Blair Labour Conservatives 2020 UK Aviation Economics Climate Change Politics And Economics investigates.jpg …
Rangers have detected gorilla families in Virunga National Park for the first time since fighting broke out between M23 rebels and government forces earlier this year
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'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden
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Newly elected MP Caroline Lucas said her party was now ready to 'take its rightful place in Parliament' after her landmark victory in yesterday's general election
Green Party victory start of 'historic new political force' The Ecologist | 7th May 2010 News Green Party Politics And Economics Caroline Lucas Gm Supermarkets Tony Juniper carolinelucas.jpg Caroline …
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, leading academic Anthony Giddens explains why it's time to switch to smaller agreements between major world powers
… not very comfortable with, including not all conservation measures, because while some are …
The political future of the Arab world's largest country could look brighter following the recent uprising in Tahrir Square and beyond. But the country faces an ecological catastrophe - much of it tourism related - reports Joseph Mayton from Cairo
… the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Agency (HEPCA) said earlier this … green? From local participation to wildlife conservation, Tanzania’s green tourism …
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?
… seen as the other side of the fence are WWF, Conservation International, Kew Gardens and … Yes, this means those dedicated ecologists, conservationists and anti-oil protestors who …
As the new nuclear renaissance grows, so too does uranium extraction. In Niger, which boasts some of the world's richest deposits, NGOs say that the poor are being exploited for the West's 'clean energy'
… they enough of a deterrent? COMMENT Wildlife conservation repeatedly ignores the needs of … but also symbols of the damage that modern conservation can inflict on the less …
The National Planning Policy Framework will sideline smart growth in favour of out-of-town sprawl - rolling back decades of town centred development. Now campaigners have launched a toolkit to reduce travel demand within local transport plans
Campaign For Better Transport: how to reduce the need to travel Richard Bourn | 13th December 2011 Activism Politics And Economics Health Energy Transport Development Public Transport …
Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc. Andrew Wasley reports
… the Niyamgiri Hills as being of 'great conservation significance', and the area has … decided totally ignoring the interest of the conservation of forests… the team saw stumps …
In a remarkable and harrowing dispatch from Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin reports how logging, mining and agriculture are opening up the country's once intact forests to the ravages of the growing bush-meat trade, threatening some of the country's most enigmatic monkey species
… monkey harvest in this region could expand. A conservationist with knowledge of the local … name only, a park without protection. Another conservationist – who did not want to be named … bribe-taking government officials.’ The conservationist continued: ‘Recently an irate …
After some of the biggest breakthroughs in their history, the Green Party now faces a leadership election so what happens now? Are the Greens ready to take the next big leap forward, asks Bibi van der Zee
Where next for the Greens? Bibi van der Zee | 28th May 2012 News Green Party Politics And Economics Westminster Caroline Lucas Investigations caroline_lucas_high_res.jpg After some of the biggest …
Poland is about to open its doors to an unprecedented dash for gas. But with multinational energy companies circling and widespread fracking about to begin, people and the environment are in the firing line. Andrew Wasley reports from Gdansk
… his London visit. “The focus must be on water conservation, earth preservation, and air …
Why not consider ploughing your green into green? Matilda Lee and Laura Sevier explore a radical response to the credit crunch
… the Woodland Trust (the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity) ancient woodland in … you access to green spaces and helps fund conservation. www.nationaltrust.org.uk Plant a …
Individuals and local campaign groups are being prevented from challenging environmental damage because of the potentially crippling cost of legal action
… obstructions to justice. Recently, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) was unable to mount …
‘Religion is the opium of the people’ is one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms. It is memorable because it tells us so much about the manipulation of faith in the industrial era
… sacrificial victim, for the principles of conservation and growth are diametrically …
The idea of a 'leisure economy' has been predicted for decades, but never realised. Despite this, research shows that our working habits continue to put a strain on the planet's resources. Could tackling climate change be as simple as working less?
The leisure economy: can we save the planet by working less? Ewan Kingston | 1st September 2009 News Society Politics And Economics Work Employment Downshifting worklifeewan.jpg The idea of a …