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Defra and DECC have launched a joint public consultation on draft guidance for how UK organisations should measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions required by the Climate Change Act. The final guidance will be published by 1 October 2009 following consultation.

Friends of the Earth Europe has warmly welcomed the groundbreaking Climate Change Bill passed in Scotland today.

The UK Climate Projections (UKCP09) (previously known as UKCIP08 and subsequently UKCP So Late!) were finally launched on Thursday 18 June.

Russia’s announcement to reduce its emissions by 10-15 percent by 2020 is disappointing and sets a bad
example for other countries who are trying to negotiate a global deal to save the world from dangerous
climate change.

China’s ambitious wind and solar plans represent a direct challenge to Europe’s claims of world leadership on cutting carbon emissions.

The North East Climate Change Partnership wins award for adaptation study.

Natural England says that England’s most familiar landscapes, their wildlife and habitats, will experience wide-ranging changes in the face of climate change.

Wind and solar power could become a major source of
electricity for the United States, but only if the nation adopts new policies that promote renewable energy and that place a price on carbon, according to a
new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

Although there is no safe level for increased temperatures caused by climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change has concluded that we need to limit a temperature rise to no more than 2 °C (relative to pre-industrial 1900 levels) in order to avoid the irreversible effects of climate change.

Heavy rain and snow induced by climate change could cause significant damage in urban areas.

A joint report launched recently by 'The Lancet' and University College London (UCL) says that climate change is the biggest threat to global health this
century.

The EEA report 'Diverting waste from landfill' finds that the EU Landfill Directive has been a positive force in altering management of biodegradable
municipal waste in the EU.

The London Assembly's environment committee has recently published a report, which indicates that recycling rates in London are among the lowest in the UK and calls on the Mayor to tackle the mountain of waste produced by people while out and about in the capital.

A Dutch study has investigated the process by which farmers incorporate environmental policy into their thinking and behaviour, a process known as 'internalisation'.

Early findings from a study underway at the Centre for Paediatrics at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry indicates that the lung capacity of 8- and 9-year-olds is 5% worse in London than the national
standard, probably as a result of the air particles created by traffic pollution.

A survey of diverse experts has concluded that the government must do more to lead the transition to low carbon transport. The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) - a partnership including over 300 leading organisations - conducted a wide-ranging survey of the opinions of its member representatives; experts on the subject of low carbon transport.

Sorting household recycling at the kerbside is the best and cheapest option in most cases says the Waste & Resources Action Programme.

Greenhouse gas flavoured whisky is on its way out. Scottish distillers, makers of iconic Scotch whiskies, have agreed to ‘green’ their production processes, meaning that whisky drinkers everywhere soon will be able to sit back with a single malt and know they are helping to fight climate change.

The fight against climate change is being used by the government to regain the public's confidence in politics, the business secretary Lord Mandelson said today.

When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.