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Last year, the world invested more in solar power than all fossil-fuel sources combined. Investors and governments installed an all-time record of 157 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity, according to a new report...

Bruce Kent of CND and Linda Rogers respond to Owen Jones’ article on Jeremy Corbyn and the UK’s nuclear weapons. Plus letters from Mike Clancy of Prospect, Frank Jackson and David LowryCan Owen Jones (Corbyn has to lead...

Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world's cities if we do nothing — that's the message Studio Roosegaarde vividly brought last week to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Bloomberg joins Leonardo DiCaprio and the Angry Birds character “Red” as a UN appointed climate envoy. Video: Michael Bloomberg appointed UN climate envoy Published on 06/03/2018,...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Edmonton, Canada is hosting an international “Cities and Climate Change” Conference, to give city government officials and politicians a chance to discuss what they would like to do...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Paris Agreement Architect and Former UNFCCC head Christiana Figueres is disappointed at the ongoing failure of heavy industry to reduce their dependency on vast amounts of reliable energy...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Paris Agreement Architect and Former UNFCCC head Christina Figueres is disappointed at the ongoing failure of heavy industry to reduce their dependency on vast amounts of reliable energy...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall A draft UN IPCC climate report suggests poor people suffering “multidimensional” poverty will be hit worst by climate change – so lets make everyone rich...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UN appears to be worried they are becoming detached from the real world, so they have created a climate “safe space” for enthusiasts to contribute their ideas for encouraging climate...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UN wants to embrace Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, to improve the integrity of climate data such as carbon credit transactions...

Erik Solheim cites ‘huge decline’ in world’s reefs but says shift from coal and new awareness of plastic pollution are good news

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The UN hopes Marshall Islands Activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s sponsored poetry readings will convince us to get rid of our cars and switch off our home heating...

Over 200 countries just signed a United Nations resolution in Nairobi, Kenya to eliminate plastic waste in the world's oceans. The resolution is an important step towards establishing a legally binding treaty that would deal...

IARC takes US money, manipulates scientific studies, colludes with activists – and snubs Congress Guest essay by Paul Driessen The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France has received over $48 million...

UN Green Climate Fund (GFC) — nice rort if you can get it The UN climate fund was set up in 2010 but has yet to send a single dollar of project money to its star sinking island (which isn’t sinking, but is poor)...