Environmental stories tagged with: climate change

easyJet has launched a major campaign to encourage the UK's politicians to adopt a more intelligent approach to air travel.

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.

While the UN has been thrashing out climate change mitigation options in Vienna this week, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council will host its own climate change summit on Friday 14 September.

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.

Under the auspices of the Western Climate Initiative, eight North American States have committed to a regional greenhouse gas emission reduction goal of 15% below 2005 levels by 2020.

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.

An internet community-cum-real-life tribal community, Tribewanted is an experiment in internet social networking and sustainable tourism, and it is now able to un its HQ from a couple of laptops in a thatched hut amongst the coconut palms, thanks to Ecotricity.

NASA has recently corrected an error in its weather station data.  The correction changes the warmest year in America from 2006 to 1934.

An international team of scientists investigating the Atlantic's circulation - which is largely responsible for Europe's warm climate - and its likelihood of ever 'switching off', has for the first time been able to continuously monitor the daily variations in its strength.

Ontario's plan for planting 50 million trees across southern Ontario by 2020 to help fight climate change is the biggest North American tree planting program pledged to the United Nations Billion Tree Campaign, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced today.

Headline results from the 2007 Survey of Public Attitudes and Behaviours toward the environment are released today by Defra