Policy & Science
Facing a future of more frequent natural disasters, governments are realising how powerful computational modelling can be for understanding, analysing and perhaps even avoiding them.
Washington might be showing resistance to binding international emissions restrictions, but local action on air pollution will shut the nation's smaller, older coal plants and cut America's CO2 output.
A Wall Street Journal article has accused Beijing of trying to dupe the world with a smokescreen carbon levy. In this response, two energy and climate policy experts argue that the claims are just plain wrong.
As is stands, the Clean Energy Future package's proposed Biodiversity Fund seems destined to repeat the mistakes of past government environmental initiatives. How can we work together to avoid this?
New claims from a collection of scientists argue that climate change is not such a dangerous threat after all, and cast doubt on AGW theory as a 'collection of stubborn scientific facts.' But is this accurate?
With the release of the EC's latest analysis on moving beyond its existing green goals, we look at the scope of the suggested new targets, the implications for the carbon market, and the potential costs and savings for the EU.
A rift is developing in the American Meteorological Society, with one faction arguing members should report the scientific consensus on climate change as well as the weather, while a vocal minority is calling AGW a scam.