Daily climate and energy links - 25th March 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe 13 of 14 warmest years on record occurred in 21st century - UN A report from the World Meteorological Organisation has confirmed...
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Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe UK's future climate to be all sorts British summers are likely to be hotter and drier, but washouts are still on the cards, the...
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Carbon briefing: changing views of biofuels reflected in climate report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s new report, due to be launched next week, is likely to give a new and updated perspective on biofuels - reflecting a flood of research on their...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 27th March 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Spain's oil deposits and fracking sites trigger energy gold rush The discovery of two significant offshore deposits off the coast...
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2013’s stormy weather leads to record levels of renewable electricity
Stormy weather pushed the UK's renewable electricity generation to to record levels at the end of 2013, according to official statistics. However, fossil fuels still made up the largest proportion of...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 28th March 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Why Ofgem referred the 'Big Six' for investigation in graphs Energy regulator Ofgem referred the sector to the Competition...
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Arctic sea ice melt: a story of winners and losers, IPCC scientist says
Arctic sea ice is expected to have melted enough to open up shipping lanes for four months of the year by the middle of the century, a new UN climate report is expected to say. The new conditions...
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Climate and energy news IPCC report: 'Climate change is happening and no one in the world is immune' The negative effects of climate change are already beginning to be felt in every part of the...
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The impacts of climate change in three charts: Key charts in the IPCC’s...
The latest instalment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s big report on the impacts of climate change is chock-full of information. To help readers wade through it all, the...
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The main messages from today’s big UN climate report
A landmark new report on climate change came out earlier today, looking at the impact of past and future warming on ecosystems and human society. Here's our rundown of the report's main messages, on...
View ArticleLunchtime round-up: Media coverage of the IPCC’s Working Group 2 report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report on the impacts of climate change today. Cue something of a media frenzy. Fortunately, we've read the key coverage so you don't have to....
View ArticleThe new IPCC report: A summary for everyone
Today an international group of hundreds of climate scientists released a report on how climate change will affect the world, and what might be done to adapt to it. The story so far The report from...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 1st April 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Climate catastrophes in other countries will hit UK's food security, experts say Consultancy PWC says with nearly 40% of all UK...
View Article‘Climate change poses risks for human and natural systems’: Key quotes from...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a big report on the impacts of climate change yesterday. The report looked at everything from how climate change puts species and societies at...
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Trees at risk, poverty pockets and the risk of tipping: five hidden stories...
The UN's much anticipated landmark report into the future impacts of climate change was finally launched yesterday - covering everything from fisheries to flooding. We've dug out five hidden stories...
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How to read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s reports
The UN's new climate report is 1,000 pages long and contains a huge amount of detail on topics as diverse as flood risk and Arctic greening. So how do you stop it from becoming the world's...
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Calculating damages: How much will climate change cost?
Today's Financial Times features professor Richard Tol's take on what a new UN report says about how much climate change could cost the world. But examining the report's summary reveals a list of...
View ArticleBBC climate coverage singled out for criticism by parliamentary committee
The government, the media - particularly the BBC- must up their game in communicating the science of climate change to the public. That's the conclusion of a report by a Parliamentary select...
View ArticleDaily climate and energy links - 2nd April 2014
Get the daily briefing in your inbox at 9AM - click here to subscribe Government accuses BBC of creating 'false balance' on climate change with unqualified sceptics A new parliamentary report has...
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How much flooding is in the UK’s future? A look ahead to the next IPCC report
From posing a threat to natural ecosystems to damaging business, property and livelihoods, a report out this week from the UN's official climate body reviews the wide-ranging damages extreme flooding...
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