Marking the mid-way point between COP17 in Durban and COP18 in Doha next week, the climate talks taking place in Bonn over the next fortnight are a much more low-key affair. Youth groups around the world are again ensuring their voices are heard within the process – by performi... Read more »

Farming must intensify sustainably, cut waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farms, it says. The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Changespent more than a year assessing evidence from scientists and policymakers.... Read more »

Former president Mohamed Nasheed, who resigned last month in what he claimed was a de facto coup, warns the country will now find it difficult to make its voice heard on the global stage... Read more »

We’re delighted to share a short interview with Abigail Rose Borah from SustainUS. We first met Abigail last December at COP17 in Durban when she made an impassioned (and unauthorized) speech to the US delegation. Learn more about what inspired her to speak out, the challenges... Read more »

Last week, we heard the first tiny sounds of a train leaving the Durban Platform. For those of you who don't speak UN climate convention-ese, what I mean is that governments have taken their first tentative steps in the process towards negotiating a new global climate deal.... Read more »

The outcome of the international climate change conference last year in Durban, South Africa, underscored a dichotomy that has come to characterise the effort to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions responsible for global warming: While it surpassed what many thought was political... Read more »

It’s not long now till the climate summit follow up to Durban, is held in Qatar later this year. And in response to the eyes that will be soon focusing on the Middle East, it appears that climate skeptics are being pushed away to the sidelines – if temporarily. ... Read more »

Here we present specific examples of common sense policies that can promote growth and cut greenhouse gas emissions. These actions fall across three crucial areas: energy, forestry and transport.... Read more »

Creating a different system of accounting for climate change -- one that puts all countries on an even legal playing field while still remaining sensitive to different levels of wealth and historic emissions -- promises to be a politically fraught and divisive task.... Read more »

2011 was a year of changes and challenges. As millions suffered through the impacts of extreme weather and climate change, our partners in the climate movement rose up for them and with them. The victories of 2011 were hard fought, and they give us the foundation upon which our c... Read more »