MAD Climate – Making a Difference

The number of sweltering nights when the temperature in cities stays above 20C (68F) and the elderly become vulnerable to heat exhaustion will increase fivefold because of climate change, a Met Office study has found.

U.N. climate talks opened on Monday, exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor countries which delegates said were likely to delay a re-start of formal negotiations.

This programme looks at the merits of three resources aimed at helping the teaching of climate change and its impact on the environment.

The first full-bore UN climate talks since Copenhagen began Monday, with developing nations looking for bankable proof that promised aide is in the pipeline.

Source: Reuters * 185-nation Bonn climate meeting to run through June 11 * New text rejected by some nations, to be revised * EU says a third of climate aid will be loans, not grants (Adds quotes, background ...

Source: Reuters * 185-nation Bonn climate meeting to run through June 11 * New text rejected by some nations, to be revised By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany, May 31 (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks opened on ...

Source: Reuters By Sunanda Creagh JAKARTA, May 31 (Reuters) - Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licences held by palm oil and timber firms to save natural forests under a $1 billion climate change deal signed ...

Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licenses held by palm oil and timber firms to save natural forests under a $1 billion climate change deal signed with Norway last week, a government official said on Monday.

African ministers clashed with the French delegation at a meeting ahead of Monday's Franco-African summit, during which they discussed the continent's representation on the UN Security Council.

THE annual £69 billion pledged by rich countries to help poor nations deal with climate change must not be given as loans. Oxfam warned yesterday that such a move would simply