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According to a new report for the United Nations plants and animals are becoming extinct at a rate one thousand times faster than expected.
It reports humans are failing to put a proper value on nature’s benefits, making their own future poorer as a result. Even though efforts are being made man kind needs to act faster, people need to step back and assess how they can be more ethical and less polluting.
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Following the leads of the EU, US, Australia and Japan, New Zealand this week became the latest developed nation to announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
It will fall between 10% and 20% from 1990 levels – if the UN climate negotiations which are this week going through a relatively informal set of talks in Bonn result in a global deal.
As my colleague David Shukman reported from that meeting, significant differences remain between developed and developing worlds over who should shoulder how much of the pain of carbon cuts, and who should pay how much to the poorest countries projected to feel the impacts of climate change first.
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Hostile police tactics at the Kingsnorth and G20 camps has not put protesters off as climate camp goes global.
It was a different kind of protest. Instead of turning up at the latest G8 summit or AGM of a multinational and waving the banners of opposition, the protesters chose their own location.
They set up camp in the shadow of a controversial carbon emitter – such as Drax coal-fired power station – living as sustainably as possible before making a high-profile demonstration.
Drax, Heathrow and Kingsnorth are now synonymous with climate change, in part due to the success of the protest camps of the past three years. But where did this powerful new movement come from?
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Activists gather outside business secretary’s London home in ‘act of solidarity’ for 625 workers set to lose their jobs at the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight.
Police officers arrive as Climate Rush protestors chain themselves to the fence of the business secretary’s home. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA.
Protesters against the closure of a wind turbine factory chained themselves to Lord Mandelson’s home today as the business secretary jetted back from Corfu to take control of the day-to-day business of government.
Members of the Climate Rush campaign group gathered outside Mandelson’s two-storey property in Regent’s Park, north London, in an “act of solidarity” with 625 workers who are set to lose their jobs at the Vestas factory in Newport, Isle of Wight.
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Time is running short to agree a new treaty on global warming amid deep divisions over key issues, according to the UN’s top climate official.
Speaking at the start of the latest round of UN discussions, Yvo de Boer said the political signals were positive, but progress still too slow.
About 1,000 officials are meeting in Bonn for a week of informal talks.
The aim is to clear the way for the adoption of a new UN climate treaty in Copenhagen in December.
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They sound like ideas from a Jules Verne novel, but giant engineering schemes designed to alter the climate offer the cheapest way of avoiding catastrophic global warming, according to a growing number of scientists and green-minded entrepreneurs.
Most of the schemes have been dismissed as impossibly expensive or impractical, such as the proposal to create a space sunshade by using rockets to deploy millions of mirrors in the stratosphere.
One relatively cheap solution, however, is gaining favour among many different groups and is endorsed today by an independent study that compares the costs and benefits of all the main ideas. A wind-powered fleet of 1,900 ships would criss-cross the oceans, sucking up sea water and spraying it from the top of tall funnels to create vast white clouds.
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Activists reach out to ‘people who wear M&S’. Climate Camp to supply direct action training.
Protesters marching to Kingsnorth power station. Photograph: Haydn West/Rex Features.
Last summer it was Kingsnorth coal plant. The year before, it was Heathrow. This year, the public will decide what the target of environmental protest should be, by voting in what organisers of Climate Camp call Britain’s Got Direct Action.
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Governments need to regain control over their agriculture to combat climate change, says Peter Baker. From SciDev.net, part of the Guardian Environment Network
How will climate change affect coffee production, and what should we do about it? Coffee is the world’s most valuable tropical agricultural export — produced by about 20 million smallholder families — so these are important questions.
In his regular column, the BBC’s environment analyst Roger Harrabin draws on his experience of a quarter of a century reporting the environment to assess the thesis of two veteran environmentalists who believe the Copenhagen climate meeting will not deliver results.
Shellenberger and Nordhaus aim to break a jam on climate and energy.
The Kyoto process has failed to deliver meaningful reductions in emissions and the Copenhagen climate meeting is doomed to failure.
The only solution is to abandon the cap-and-trade approach, re-frame climate change as an energy issue rather than a “green” issue, and persuade governments to invest massively in clean technology to provide increasing energy in a way that protects the climate.
That is the thesis of Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, who founded the Breakthrough Institute in California to smash the jam on the climate and energy debate.
They brought their acerbic and sharp analysis to London a few days ago in a conference jointly organised by the left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank and the centre-right Policy Exchange in a display of non-partisan resolve over climate change.
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The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is in the final stages of entering into a climate change agreement (BPF CCA) for the plastics sector with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
This Agreement has the potential to save the UK plastics industry more than £50m per annum in climate change levy (CCL) payments until the year 2017.
For companies with a qualifying site in the UK the agreement can result in an 80% discount on the CCL they pay on electricity and LPG. This scheme will be attractive to companies consuming in excess of 250,000 kWh per annum.
Strict entry deadlines have been put in place by DECC and the BPF director-general, Peter Davis, is calling on all plastics firms to act now to start the registration process for claiming their levy discount. “At last the plastics sector has been put on a level playing field with other materials that already have CCAs,” said Davis. “Furthermore, the discount afforded by a CCA will go straight back into investment to improve further the efficiency and competitiveness of the industry.
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