On current form, she warns, the world is on track for warming of 6C by the end of the century – a level that would create catastrophe, wiping out agriculture in many areas and rendering swathes of the globe uninhabitable, as well as raising sea levels and causing mass migration, according to scientists.

Since a buildup of humanmade carbon dioxide is causing the planet to warm, why not just suck this greenhouse gas straight out of the atmosphere? That's one strategy scientists have proposed to combat climate change. But a new analysis suggests that the approach may be neither economical nor practical.

100 Places to Remember Before they Disappear features 100 photographs from one hundred different places around the world in risk of disappearing or seriously threatened by climate change.

The pictures are taken by some of the world´s best photographers and all the places are based on reports from UN´s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

On this website you can see the photographs and find further information and news about climate change and our project.

What international agreement produced 10 times the climate benefits of Kyoto and could produce several times more greenhouse gas reductions than any post-2012 climate agreement? The answer: the Montreal protocol, which Kofi Annan described as “perhaps the most successful international agreement to date”. Because a new climate agreement is unlikely to emerge in Copenhagen in December, it is time to look for possible interim alternative ideas in the Montreal protocol, which supporters call the best kept secret in the war against climate change.

Welcome to our new environment data store, a bank of information, facts and figures on today's most pressing environmental issues. We've partnered with organisations including the World Resources Institute to bring you the latest data on climate change, natural resources, conservation, consumption, green living and more.

Global warming requires a long-term, comprehensive solution—not a drastic quick fix that won’t meet the real challenges. Solving this problem will take the better part of a century, and it will need a political will spanning parties, continents, and generations. If we adopt a rational, scientific approach and invest in research and development, we’ll be doing some real good for the long run rather than just making ourselves feel good today.

What exactly should we do? We should start with the kinds of solutions that can be achieved quickly and are labor intensive. Much of the energy-efficiency work—for example, insulating buildings—very clearly falls under that category. We should be getting idle construction workers around the world working on those kinds of projects. We can bring forward infrastructure investment, particularly electricity and transport infrastructure. We can promote prototypes. Now is the time to get our resources behind prototypes for carbon capture and storage. We delayed much too long in Europe on that. We should be helping the car industry to retool and to produce more efficient, greener cars. It’s time to collect our resources and move strongly.

The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now. The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work.

The world faces two urgent demands. First, the global economy is in crisis and needs to be turned around. Second, scientists tell us that time is running out on tackling climate change and we are putting our planet at risk. The conventional wisdom is that those two demands are competing. The conventional wisdom is wrong. The pivotal factor will be achieving a dramatic increase in society’s “carbon productivity”—the amount of economic output created per ton of greenhouse gas emissions sent into the atmosphere. The concept of carbon productivity follows a familiar logic: just as the productivity of labor and capital can be measured—by weighing the amount of output created per hour worked or dollar invested—the productivity of carbon use can be readily measured as well.

Policymakers often feel trapped between conflicting goals when addressing climate change. On the one hand they see the need for urgent action, but on the other they fear higher costs, slower economic growth, and a reduced standard of living for the citizens they serve. The media often reinforces these concerns with messages that tackling climate change is all about higher prices, economic sacrifice and reduced consumer lifestyles. But taking strong steps to restrain climate change need not invite economic gloom. Our research shows that by adopting the right mix of policies, incentives and new technologies, policymakers in the world’s wealthier, developed nations would dramatically restrain the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, even as they promote job growth and wealth creation.

Add this to your list of climate nightmare scenarios: In 2040, facing rising seas, the Qatari government starts polluting the stratosphere in order to cool the planet, precipitating an international crisis and possibly upsetting monsoon patterns.

At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining.

That’s why we need a climate bailout along with our economic bailout. Hal Harvey is the C.E.O. of a new $1 billion foundation, ClimateWorks, set up to accelerate the policy changes that can avoid climate catastrophe by taking climate policies from where they are working the best to the places where they are needed the most. “There are five policies that can help us win the energy-climate battle, and each has been proven somewhere,” Harvey explained. First...

Two years ago, a dozen of the country’s major corporations, including Caterpillar, Duke Energy, and Dow Chemical, banded together with several of the nation’s leading environmental groups to form a group called the United States Climate Action Partnership. According to the group’s Web site, USCAP’s mission is to encourage “the federal government to enact legislation requiring significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” That’s a nice thought and by signing onto it USCAP’s members got a lot of nice press (including in The New Yorker). But a recent analysis of campaign giving by the non-profit group Clean Air Watch suggests that USCAP’s corporate members do not take USCAP’s goals terribly seriously. In fact, they seem to be devoting considerable resources to undermining them.

After a year of watching adults engage in devastating recklessness in the financial markets and depressing fecklessness in the global climate talks, it’s refreshing to know that the world keeps minting idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation.

WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others' and understand its consequences in order to discover how to reduce your role in climate change.

“De auto is de grootste oplossing van de klimaatverandering, niet het probleem” en “For most people denial is a river in Africa“. Twee curieuze uitspraken van een van de voormalig topmensen van softwarebedrijf SAP, Shai Agassi. Agassi houdt zich tegenwoordig bezig met de/een oplossing van het klimaatprobleem met zijn nieuwe bedrijf Better Place.

Council Special Report: Climate Change and National Security

Video of Al Gore's speech on how the USA must change energy sources now: "Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years."

Medewerkers van de natuurorganisatie World Land Trust en de University of Leeds hebben berekend dat het terugdringen van houtkap en extra bos bijplanten veel meer CO2-besparing oplevert dan bossen omzetten in energie-akkers.

A documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo di Caprio, telling us how mankind's darkest hour (our overexploitation of the planet) can be turned into its finest.

"Nobel Prize winning scientist Paul Crutzen has suggested deliberately spreading a layer of particulate matter in the upper atmosphere to help reflect some of the sun's energy in an effort to combat global warming. He reminds us that the eruption of the v

In het Klimaatverdrag en Kyoto Protocol heeft Nederland zich verplicht tot reductie van de uitstoot van broeikasgassen. Daartoe worden een aantal maatregelen uitgevoerd. Internationaal zijn ook eisen gesteld met betrekking tot monitoring en rapportage. De