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3-Sep-10

We need a better understanding of the 'environmentalist's paradox'

"Why is human well-being improving globally when our environmental woes appear to be worsening all the time?"

Category: Climate Change

30-Aug-10

Bjørn Lomborg: the dissenting climate change voice who changed his tune

"With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaigners"

Category: Climate Change

29-Aug-10

Not carbon offsets, but carbon upsets

"Cap-and-trade has had the perverse effect of subsidising politically dominant industries. We should try something else"

Category: Climate Change

29-Aug-10

Government to water down 2016 'zero carbon' target for new homes

"One of the UK's most radical environmental policies – requiring all new homes from 2016 to be "zero carbon" – is set to be scaled back amid pressure from the housebuilding industry."

Category: Climate Change

19-Aug-10

Climate: Afghanistan and Africa at risk from world food shortages

"Russian heatwave and floods in Pakistan threaten supplies for basic human diet"... ..."The report highlights climate change as having a "profound effect on global food security""

Category: Climate Change

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