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MOTORISTS across Europe are set to pay an additional £15bn a year for petrol and diesel as a result of EU biofuel targets that will not reduce climate change emissions, according to new research published today. The research, carried out on behalf of Friends of the Earth Europe and ActionAid...

China has become greener in recent decades. Since the 1980s trees, shrubs and grasses have been flourishing, thanks to warmer temperatures, a longer growing season and plenty of rain. But now research shows that this beneficial trend appears to be tailing off, with drought stress predominant in...

Since we can’t stop poor people from breeding, let’s build fences to keep them out. And let’s ask the world’s biggest polluters to pay for the fences. Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of...

Christian Schmelz and Bernd Rajal Mondaq Business Briefing January 18, 2012 Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through - Environment 2012, (published in December, 2012; contributing editor: Carlos de Miguel Perales, Ur...

Kabale — In the early 1990s Kabale was nicknamed "The Switzerland of Africa" by white settlers because of its cool weather. But with environment degradation and accompanying high temperatures, the name rings hollow. The district meteorology officer, Mr Bernard Kanyesigye, says about...

Government on Thursday announced that it has terminated the US$15.4M contract held by Fip Motilall for the construction of the Amaila Falls access road and transmission line clearing project. Works minister Robeson Benn made the announcement at a news briefing saying the action was due to the...

Judge Carlos Castro said the company behind the Belo Monte dam had shown that local fishing will not be impeded during construction, and the natural flow of the Xingu river will not be affected. "There are no legal grounds to justify maintaining the stoppage measure," Castro said. In...

This year's British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey comes complete with gloomy headlines on public opinion about climate change.

A 10-year, $233-million plan to help a billion people around the world whose livelihoods depend on trees and forests, was announced on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 17) in Durban on Sunday. The ambitious global research programme aims to protect forest carbon stocks and...