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Ban warns of costs of inaction on climate change

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today warned of the risks posed by inaction on climate change, as the high-level group he set up earlier this year to mobilize financing to help developing countries combat global warming reported that they have made progress on the issue.

Climate change needs a plain English guide

The science is solid but popular understanding of climate change lags.

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have emerged from the six-month ''climategate'' inquiry with their reputations for honesty intact. The challenge for scientists across the world now, however, is to communicate clearly the realities of climate change to a public that simply wants straight answers.

The Independent Climate Change Email Review in Britain, led by Sir Muir Russell, a former top civil servant, concluded that ''the rigour and honesty'' of the UEA scientists was not in doubt and there was no evidence that might undermine the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments.

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UN chief calls for delivery on climate change financing

UNITED NATIONS, July 13 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday reiterated the need for world leaders to deliver sizable financial support to developing countries to fund their efforts in mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Climate change & population

The apocalyptic predictions by the scientific community of climate change and its cascading impact on the very way of life, civilization and survival of living beings on the earth are no longer to be tucked away into the folds of political inaction, decisional maze and human indifference or cynically to be trounced.

A Green Retreat

Just three years ago the politics of global warming was enjoying its golden moment. The release in 2006 of Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, had riveted global audiences with its predictions of New York and Miami under 20 feet of water. Within 12 months, leading politicians with real power were on board.

UN Panel Seeks Financing Sources to Offset Climate Change

The co-chairs of the United Nations advisory group charged with finding $100 billion a year to help developing countries meet the challenges of climate change said Tuesday that they will present their final report in October, ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Mexico. 

Expert Groups and Structured Conversations

Expert Groups and Structured Conversations

Expert Groups and Structured Conversations

Alternative Interfaces

Alternative Interfaces

Climate Change Situation Room, and Early Warning for the Prime Minister Office

We can't ignore the nuclear option

LET'S hope that Julia Gillard heeds the advice of Heather Ridout and doesn't rush to produce a climate change policy ahead of the election ("PM told to slow down on climate", 10-11, 7).

Progressive climate policy: the case for nation building

The ascension of Julia Gillard provides an opportunity for Labor to reorient its climate change policy agenda.

Contrary to what its proponents have argued for years, emissions trading has not been as politically feasible as initially thought. Labor's inability to pass a market-based mechanism in its first term not only brings into question the political palatability of neoliberal-inspired policy, but also draws attention to the need for alternative approaches.

The IPCC's Media Problem

Over at Dot Earth, Andrew Revkin has gotten his hands on a couple of documents being sent to the 831 researchers who will be contributing to the fifth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the report that sums up the state of research on global warming, and which is set to be finalized in 2014. Both have to do with how the scientists who will be working for the UN body should deal with troublesome media.

'Climategate' shows the need for openness by scientists

"Like it or not, this [demand for openness] indicates a transformation in the way science has to be conducted in this century." That, say many, will be the lasting legacy of the independent review published last week into the controversial emails between climate scientists that were stolen from the University of East Anglia and posted online.