Photo credit: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) This week policy makers have begun two weeks of marathon COP20 climate negotiations in Lima, Peru. This will probably be the most important, least […]
Photo credit: Cop 20 By guest contributor Joydeep Gupta Countries are setting out their positions in Lima to negotiate a global climate deal in Paris at the end of next year amid […]
Landowners in the Miyun basin will be trained to plant, care for and monitor trees. Photo credit: 老信天翁. By Zhang Yan & Aaron Reuben Could a project to restore tree diversity in the […]
Photo credit: Xinhua / Alamy. By Dr. James Hansen As I peer into Beijing’s impenetrable smog, I feel nauseous. Air pollution from burning coal kills over one million people per year in […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opens Climate Summit 2014. Photo credit: UN Photo / Cia Pak. By Anders Lorenzen Just days after New York City witnessed the world’s largest climate march, in […]
By Anders Lorenzen Photo credits: © Wu Haitao/Greenpeace A Greenpeace investigation has found that a Chinese coal mine is encroaching onto the third largest river in Asia, the Yellow River. Greenpeace found […]
A coal storage area in Beijing. Photo credit: kafka4prez via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen City officials in Beijing have taken one of the most radical steps to deal with the ongoing air […]
A Chinese woman wearing an air pollution mask in Beijing during severe air pollution levels in February. Photo credit: Reuters / Barry Huang. By Anders Lorenzen Hot on the heels of […]
EU’s Climate Change Commisioner Connie Hedegaard delivering a speech at London’s Chatham House in 2012. Photo credit: Chatham House. By Anders Lorenzen When the EU election results were coming in, one […]
Beijing’s smog so dense that some skyscrapers can’t be seen. By Anders Lorenzen It’s an issue that keeps popping up, questioning China’s rapid economic growth and the health implications thereof. Now again, […]
A greener life, a greener world 