MAD Climate – Making a Difference

A leading climate-change sceptic seized control of Australia's opposition on Tuesday, vowing to kill carbon trading legislation ahead of key UN talks.

Malcolm Turnbull could be axed as Australia’s opposition leader today after climate change sceptics in his Liberal party vowed to renege on a deal struck with the Labor government last week to back an emissions trading scheme.

Climate change could kill more than 400,000 children every year in the future because of floods and droughts, according to a leading charity.

What idea or technology holds the greatest promise for climate change? That is the question Channel 4 News posed to the scientific community. Here are their ten climate saving ideas.

CYCLISTS will take to the streets of the Capital to show their support for reaching a climate change deal at the upcoming Copenhagen summit.

The European Union said Monday that cataclysmic climate change cannot be averted without Chinese leadership but Beijing stood firm in pushing for the rich world to take the lead.

Political leaders meeting in Copenhagen next week must reach a fair, ambitious and binding deal on climate change that does not leave out and further disadvantage the world's poor, said Mary Robinson and Irene Khan. Mary Robinson – former President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of the Ethical Globalization Initiative – and Irene Khan – Secretary General ...

Next week's UN climate change conference has been billed as the most important in our history.

Zoos and aquariums are warning they will be the last place on Earth where people will still be able to see species ranging from polar bears to corals, unless global leaders manage to halt climate change.

Source: Reuters SYDNEY, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Tibet's exiled Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama entered the climate change debate on Monday, urging governments to take serious action and put global interests ahead ...