The Climate Scoreboard is a new initiative brought forth by the Sustainability Institute, which will allow the public, media professionals and other concerned parties to track current negotiation developments down the road toward an international climate treaty. The Scoreboard lets visitors examine suggested treaty proposals to see whether…

United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu has stood up to openly congratulate companies that have renounced the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the organization’s impracticality regarding a rigid climate change policy. The energy secretary also maintains that other corporations should quit the group if the Chamber does not accept the ingenuity being…

Britain’s deep-rooted academy of science, The Royal Society of London, has released a report which claims that current attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not offer an appropriate environmental counterbalance in time to prevent a major…

G8 leaders have recently acknowledged the “broad scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2˚C”. The group also committed to taking on a more persistent stance to diminish the use of super greenhouse gases hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as “taking rapid action to address other significant climate forcing agents, such as black carbon”. Black carbon, a short term climate depleting…

A new research study offers insight into the ongoing global warming debate by proposing that carbon emission standards should be separated between wealthy and poor citizens to be more just, as the wealthy are usually the principal consumers of carbon within a country. The authors in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences assert…