MAD Climate – Making a Difference

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 of domestic concerns.

The global climate change problem cannot be solved without Chinese leadership and responsibility, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said Monday in his capacity as EU president.

Irish singer and activist Bob Geldof returned to Ethiopia this week 25 years after arousing a global response to its 1984 famine and said climate change could undo progress the country had seen since then.

Gordon Brown proposed a new global fund today to "kickstart" the Copenhagen climate change process and encourage poorer countries to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions immediately.

Christian Aid - UK Unavoidable climate change will cost Africa at least 1.7 per cent of its GDP by 2040 - US$26.35 billion a year at current rates - and leave millions more people suffering from hunger, diseases, floods ...

Strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health, according to studies published in the medical journal The Lancet. The Lancet series highlights case studies on four climate change topics - household energy, transportation, electricity generation, and agricultural food production.

China's Communist Party leadership pledged during a meeting Friday to "actively" tackle climate change and stick to its current fiscal and monetary policies, state-run media reported.

Gordon Brown arrived at the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad & Tobago optimistic of achieving consensus on the need for a deal on climate change in Copenhagen next month.

A five-year programme linking four universities is to look at the impact of climate change and provide public information.

The issue of climate change will take centre stage later today when the Queen officially opens a meeting of Commonwealth countries in Trinidad.