climate change

5 March 2010 - Environmentalists argue that what began as an initiative to clean up dirty palm oil production practices, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil has become little more than an NGO-endorsed greenwashing tool. Rebecca Zhou, of Reportage/enviro reports.

UNITED NATIONS chief Ban Ki-moon has set up a high-level advisory panel to mobilise more than $US112 billion ($126.2 billion) in funding to help developing nations battle climate change.

Carbon offset schemes like REDD have been a big part of the Copenhagen negotiations so far, but in practice they can go horribly wrong, reports Angela Dewan.

Kevin Rudd promised Pacific nations that he would act on climate change, but his key climate advisor now says it's inevitable that islands will soon be uninhabitable because of rising seas.

Six developing countries will join five western nations, including the United States and Australia, to combat climate change by better managing forestry resources, the World Bank said Tuesday.

Worldwide food production will have to rise by a staggering 70 per cent by the middle of this century if food riots are not to become commonplace.

The planet's small island states have warned world leaders that they will be committing "benign genocide", if they don't agree to drastic climate change measures.

UNITED NATIONS — It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global warming, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.

The African Union has drafted a provocative resolution to take to the international climate change talks in Copenhagen later this year, asking for compensation.