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Wilson Center Spotlight Program Highlights Prevention of Climate Change

A climate conference will be conducted at Denmark tentatively during the month of December 2009, which will focus on deriving a new agreement for preventing climate change.

24 Nov 2009

Action Plan to Meet Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets in Ontario

Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, GreenProsperity, a group of environmental organizations at Ontario has come up with a plan to reduce global warming and suitable a suitable action plan to control climate change.

24 Nov 2009

Mysteriously Warm Times in Antarctica

A new study of Antarctica's climate history shows that in some brief warm periods between ice ages, temperatures were up to 6oC warmer than the present day. The findings, reported this week in the journal Nature, could help us understand more about rapid climate changes.

19 Nov 2009

Australian Attitudes to Climate Change

A major survey on Australian attitudes to climate change released today by the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney mirrors recent polling among Americans.

19 Nov 2009

No Slow-Down in Global CO2 Emissions

The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world's natural 'sinks' to absorb carbon is published this week in Nature Geoscience.

18 Nov 2009

3-D Walk-Through Exhibition Puts Climate Change at Fingertips

A large-scale 3-D walk-through exhibition about climate change and the Antarctic, which opens this Friday at the University of Sydney, is a visually sophisticated means for conveying critical information about climate change.

17 Nov 2009

Greenland Ice Sheet Loosing Mass at Accelerating Rate

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.

16 Nov 2009

Shrinking Adsorption Systems Makes Them Viable and Efficient Heating and Cooling Systems

Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars.

13 Nov 2009

Korea and Carbon Trust Work Together to Reduce Global Carbon Footprint

Within one year Korean products exported into the UK and around the world could be carrying the Carbon Trust’s Carbon Reduction Label

10 Nov 2009

G20 Finance Ministers Fail to Make Agreement on Climate Change

Finance ministers of the world’s dominant economies failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change

9 Nov 2009