Environmental stories tagged with: UN

Islington Council will be one of two London councils to push the boundary and harness wind power to provide energy in council homes.

The United Nations has lauched a new web portal that makes it easier to get involved with environmental schemes around the world.

IBM and the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town are launching a global computing effort to improve regional climate models in order to make better projections about what effects a changing climate will have in Africa.

Bogs and peatlands in northern Britain store over 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon but severe erosion and climate change are in danger of releasing this stored carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming, according to research presented at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Friday.

Government priorities can drive local waste partnerships towards the achievement of central targets and efficiency savings rather than wider sustainable waste management objectives, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows.

A round of climate change talks under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded in Austria on Friday with agreement on key elements for an effective international response to climate change.

Cars in the future could be running on fuel made from the by-products of brewing and distilling thanks to a new research project at the University of Abertay Dundee.

A fresh round of climate change talks under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) got underway in Austria this week.

An eco-friendly affordable housing development at Townsend Farm in Carhampton, West Somerset, set down firm foundations this week as West Somerset Council completed the purchase of the land from the Crown Estate.

According to a study by Norwich Union, the British are not beyond a little green lie to exaggerate their ethical lifestyles rather than actually change their behaviour - seven in 10 Brits (68%) say being seen to be green is the new way of "keeping up with the Joneses".

According to a new report issued this week by the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), addressing climate change in the next 25 years will require significant changes in the patterns of investment and financial flows.