Global Warming or Climate Change

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to announce new alliance of nations and industry on large-scale expansion of solar energy use in the tropics and beyond A woman sprays water on panels of India’s first 1MW canal-top solar power plant at Chandrasan village in Mehsana, Gujarat, India. Photograph: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images Arthur Neslen Monday 30 November 2015 16.24 GMTLast modified on Monday 30 November 201516.26 GMT India’s prime minister Narendra Modi is poised to launch an international solar alliance of around 120 countries with the French president Francoise Hollande at the Paris climate summit on Monday. France’s climate ambassador Laurence Tubiana said that the new group would be “a true game changer”. While signatory nations mostly hail from the tropics, several European countries are also on board. A story of hope: the Guardian launches phase II of its climate change campaign James Randerson With crucial climate talks on the horizon, Keep it in the ground turns its f...

Doomsday clocks, parched land and thirsty polar bears – as COP21 kicks off, political artist Peter Kennard has worked with Royal College of Art students to create a poignant and provocative exhibition on environmental threat • Fiddling While Earth Burns is at the Dyson Gallery in Battersea, London until 8 December Monday 30 November 2015 07.00 GMT Burn Baby Burn by Myka Baum Facebook Twitter Pinterest Five Minutes to Midnight by Peter Kennard Facebook Twitter Pinterest Plane Banana by Mollie Tearne Facebook Twitter Pinterest COKEBEAR by Eunho Rhee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Endgame by Peter Kennard Facebook Twitter Pinterest Earth Sold by Myka Baum Facebook Twitter Pinterest Burning structure by Julia Parkinson Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coal in the hole mining poster by Julia Parkinson Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portrait, oil on earth by Peter Kennard Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trades by Lewk Wilmshurst Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Haywain 31 December 2099 by Peter Kennard Facebo...

COP21: Thousands join London climate change march 29 November 2015   From the section UK Jump media player Media player help Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media caption Claire Marshall reports from the midst of London march Campaigners in central London have marched to demand that global leaders take urgent action to tackle climate change. The event was the largest of about 2,500  demonstrations taking place around the world  ahead of a critical UN climate summit in Paris. Organisers said about 50,000 people were on the route from Hyde Park to Whitehall. Cities including  Edinburgh ,  Bristol  and  Belfast  hosted other UK marches. The Paris conference,  known as COP21 , starts on Monday and will try to craft a long-term deal to limit carbon emissions. The gathering of 147 heads of state and government is set to be far bigger than the 115 or so who came to Copenhagen in 2009,...

This article is from the In-Depth Report  Do or Die: The Global Climate Summit in Paris Climate Change Will Not Be Dangerous for a Long Time Slower warming than predicted gives the world time to develop better energy technologies By  Matt Ridley   |  November 27, 2015 ©iStock.com The climate change debate has been polarized into a simple dichotomy. Either global warming is “real, man-made and dangerous,” as Pres. Barack Obama thinks, or it’s a “hoax,” as Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe thinks. But there is a third possibility: that it is real, man-made and not dangerous, at least not for a long time. This “lukewarm” option has been boosted by recent climate research, and if it is right, current policies may do more harm than good. For example, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other bodies agree that the rush to grow biofuels, justified as a decarbonization measure, has raised food prices and contributed to rainforest dest...

Financial institutions are threatened with climate-related losses  Getty Climate change poses such a threat to Britain's banking sector that the government must introduce mandatory "stress testing" of City institutions to determine which are the most vulnerable, a new report warns. The risks posed to banks’ solvency would remain high even if a robust deal was reached at the UN climate change summit in Paris over the next fortnight, said Joss Garman, a co-author of the IPPR think-tank report.  Financial institutions are threatened with climate-related losses on several fronts. Banks and pension funds stand to lose billions of pounds of loans and investments in fossil fuel companies if, as seems increasingly likely, they have to leave huge amounts of their coal, oil and gas assets in the ground. READ MORE Everything you need to know about the Paris climate conference Local-authority pension funds alone are understood to hold £14bn of fossil fuel assets, w...