MAD Climate – Making a Difference

Exclusive 'Sceptical environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world • Climate change voice who changed his tune • Rajendra Pachauri under pressure to stand aside The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge ...

Review of IPCC calls for tighter term limits on top bosses and recommends changes to ensure science panel's credibility • Lomborg: $100bn needed for climate fight • Pachauri innocent of financial misdealings Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the UN's science panel on climate change, is coming under pressure to step aside as chair of the organisation after an independent review of the panel's work ...

With his new book, Danish scientist Bjørn Lomborg has become an unlikely advocate for huge investment in fighting global warming. But his answers are unlikely to satisfy all climate change campaigners Few statisticians can have inspired more passion than Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish academic who became famous as the author of the controversial (some would say contrarian) Skeptical Environmentalist ...

ACT's climate change and greenhouse gas reduction bill aims to cut carbon emissions by 40% by 2020 from 1990 levels The government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) said today it will enact tough carbon cutting laws, a step that comes after a national election that punished the ruling Labor party over lack of action on climate change. The ACT, which includes the capital Canberra also ...

After years criticising attempts to tackle climate change, "sceptical environmentalist" Bjørn Lomborg is arguing that we need to make it a top priority, says Michael Marshall

Source: Reuters * Combined environmental factors creating risk * Analysts says global weather patterns a catalyst * Calls for tighter river management By Rebecca Conway ISLAMABAD, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Global ...

The Brazilian secretary for climate change and environmental quality at the ministry of the environment, Branca Americano, has announced that oil revenues will be used to bolster the National Fund on Climate Change.

One of the world's most prominent climate change sceptics has called for a $100bn fund to fight the effects of global warning, after rethinking his views on the severity of the threat.

U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was heavily criticised after admitting 2007 global warming report had exaggerated the pace of Himalayan glaciers melting.

The U.N. climate panel should make predictions only when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body.