Historic climate deal in Paris: EU leads global efforts

The European Union has played a key role in brokering today’s historic agreement in Paris, where 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. The ambitious and balanced agreement, the first major multilateral deal of the 21st century, sets out a global action plan to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C.

4 unanswered questions at the Paris climate talks

Leaders from around the world have five days to reach an agreement on climate change in Paris. A draft negotiating text, which was four years in the making, was approved on Saturday.

12 celebrities calling for climate action

As we fast approach one of the most important climate change meetings of our generation, a host of celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio through to Gary Neville (yes, really) are using their mighty influence to broadcast the issue of global warming and push for a strong global deal in Paris.

New phase of the Global Climate Change Alliance

A new phase of the Global Climate Change Alliance was launched today: Global Climate Change Alliance+ (GCCA+) is set to become one of Europe’s key tools to assist the world’s most vulnerable developing countries in addressing global climate change. But what is the GCCA?

Global Day of Actions For Climate September 24-27

Thousands of people all over the world, across more than 30 countries, unite in a support of a just transition to 100% renewable energy for all ahead of climate talks in Paris in December. The climate movement is on the rise. Nothing stops climate change faster than our actions.

European Environment Action Programme to 2020

Which countries are best prepared for climate change?

With the COP21 climate summit coming up in December, and 2015 well on its way to becoming the hottest year in recorded history, interest is growing in measures to tackle global warming.

NASA Finds 2013 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend

NASA scientists say 2013 tied with 2009 and 2006 for the seventh warmest year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.

With the exception of 1998, the 10 warmest years in the 134-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the warmest years on record.

Climate change is not just about CO2

 

Attempts to reduce human impact on climate are not just about carbon dioxide. There are problems that, unlike CO2, you can see. Soot containing black carbon from burning fossil and biofuels is just one of those –  experts reckoning it to now be the second-leading cause of global warming; jumping ahead of methane.

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

IPCC: The responsibilities of man on climate change

The draft of 31 pages was delivered on Monday , by scientists and representatives from 110 countries . After one last ” hairstyle “, the final document will be approved and presented on Friday , and will act as a guide for the governments in the next two years who will attempt to agree on the framework that will succeed the Kyoto Protocol .