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 […]
Lima climate talks begin as countries eye building momentum
A new approach to boosting forests in China
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 […]
Opinion: The energy to fight injustice
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 […]
World’s two largest CO2 emitters appear to show ambition at New York climate summit, while the UK stands still
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 […]
Greenpeace pictures show the environmental destruction caused by giant illegal Chinese coal mine
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 […]
Beijing to ban coal
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 […]
Increased hope of a Paris climate deal next year, as China could introduce a total emissions cap in 2016
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 […]
Opinion: EU is our single most important tool to tackle climate change
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 […]
World Health Organisation declares smog crisis in China
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, […]
The year that was and looking ahead – part two of three
Could The Great Barrier Reef in Australia be a thing of the past? By Anders Lorenzen Did our key predictions for 2013 come true, and what are we expecting from 2014? Coal’s […]
A greener life, a greener world 