Environment / Climate Change

Brian Loffler on how some blue-skies thinking created a green inspiration.

Environmentalists Chris Goodall and Jose Etcheverry argue for and against - plus your chance to join the debate.

How do you respond to people in climate denial? Danny Chivers offers a step-by-step guide to rebutting the most common arguments against climate change.

A protest against opening the EU's doors to Canada's polluting tar sands

What will it be like to live in a zero carbon world? George Marshall encourages us to look to the past to find out.

The facts and figures of energy emission, consumption and reduction.

Conflicts between nomadic communities over water shortages increase

Jess Worth looks at how activists in Britain are broadening the climate change debate.

After Copenhagen’s dismal failure, social movements from all over the world gathered in Bolivia – here's what happened.

Unproven scientific ‘fixes’ for global warming are a major threat to the planet

The international campaign to shut down the tar sands is shaping up to be an iconic battle, reports Jess Worth.

Is hell really other people? Vanessa Baird concludes with some sobering facts and reflections on equality.

Jonathon Porritt and the Corner House offer two very different perspectives on one of the big debates of the day.

Some Pacifc islands are already being evacuated. Bangladesh stands next in the climate change frontline. The difference is, it has a massive and growing population.

The NI guide to how you can take action for climate justice, whether you’re in Copenhagen, in a major city or online.

Corporations have taken over the climate agenda. Oscar Reyes reveals who, how and why.

Copenhagen is not the only game in town. There are other ideas for how to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The NI catches up with one of the boldest: Ecuador's Yasuní initiative.

Will the Copenhagen conference deliver effective action on climate change? Not a chance, argues Jess Worth. So what's the alternative?

The Arctic is changing dramatically. Jess Worth finds out what it means for the people who live there.

Unless it is fair, we will never get a successful international climate agreement. Tom Athanasiou has rolled up his sleeves and produced a proposal for how it could be done.