Photo credit: Sten Dueland via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen I recently wrote how renewables have had a record year in 2014. Investments in renewable energy sources have increased by an impressive 16% […]
Opinion: Why renewables will have a bumper 2015
Our 12 most important stories of 2014
It’s been quite a year for environmental news. While you wait for the new year to kick in here is a list of the 12 most important stories we have reported this […]
Editorial: Why Lima matters
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 […]
Lima climate talks begin as countries eye building momentum
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 […]
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 […]
A greener life, a greener world 