Global Warming News
Search for an article
14 May 2008
US government says climate change putting polar bears at risk
Climate change is destroying vital polar bear habitat, putting the species at risk of extinction, the US government said today as it listed the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
» Read more
16 Apr 2008
Bush’s Climate Speech: Too Little Too Late
Statement by Dr. Richard Moss, Vice President and Managing Director of Climate Change for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), on US President Bush's speech regarding climate change. » Read more
07 Apr 2008
EU carbon market sets up another round of windfall profits for dirtiest power generators
Polluting electricity generators in Europe are set to reap another round of extraordinary windfall profits from the carbon trading scheme meant to curb their carbon emissions, a new report revealed today.
» Read more
05 Apr 2008
Japan needs to repair trust to succeed in G8 – WWF
UN climate discussions from 31 March to 4 April 08 in Bangkok showed that Japan will need to repair trust and confidence of developing nations if it wants to lead the G8 towards making a constructive contribution to the UN climate negotiations » Read more
02 Apr 2008
Cars should plug-in to a new future
Dramatically expanded use of plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles would be a way to a transport future that doesn't risk climate catastrophe , a new WWF analysis has found.
Such a move would also reduce the risk of conflict over less and less oil more and more concentrated in relatively unstable areas of the world. » Read more
31 Mar 2008
Earth Hour great success - Millions turn off lights, while one village turns them on.
Millions globally signalled a new awareness of climate change by turning off their lights for an hour last Saturday night. World landmarks – the Sydney Opera House, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, and Bangkok's Wat Arun Rajawarahrahm Pagoda disappeared into the night sky.
One community, however, did it differently. Visogo Village in Fiji celebrated Earth Hour by turning their light switches on . . . for the first time.
» Read more
27 Mar 2008
UN Climate Change Talks Bangkok, 31 March to 4 April 2008
The UN Climate Talks in Bangkok – the first meeting after the Bali conference – is about developing an ambitious timetable to complete the complex negotiations on a new climate deal in time for the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. “Bangkok is all about getting the timing, rhythm and focus of the negotiations right,” said Kathrin Gutmann, Climate Policy Coordinator, WWF International. “Governments need to enshrine the spirit of Bali in a workplan that reflects the ambition to achieve deep emission cuts in the next 10 to 15 years.” » Read more
25 Mar 2008
APP irregularities threaten massive climate and tiger impact
Pekanbaru, INDONESIA – One of the world’s biggest carbon stores and a key tiger habitat are threatened by a new logging road in Riau Province, Sumatra, according to an investigative report published today.
An absence of permits and other irregularities suggest that the new road cutting into Kampar peninsula is likely to be illegal, says Riau’s Eyes on the Forest group, a coalition of local NGO network Jikalahari, Walhi Riau, and WWF-Indonesia. » Read more
25 Mar 2008
Climate Witnesses support Earth Hour
Individuals witnessing the impacts of climate change on their local environments and communities encourage people around the world to join the global Earth Hour movement and switch off on 29 March 2008. » Read more
20 Mar 2008
Santa Cruz, Bolivia: First Latin American city to be a part of Earth Hour
WWF, the global conservation organization, invites the general population, communities, companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations in the country to join the Earth Hour awareness campaign. The campaign proposes that on March 29th, from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m., lights or any other item that consumes energy be switched off in the most important cities worldwide. » Read more
