Industry-Backed Shale Gas Task Force Says ‘Yes’ to Fracking, But Only With CCS and Renewables Support

Fracking for shale gas should go ahead in the UK, finds the industry-backed Task Force on Shale Gas in its third report, which was released this week. However, the report into the impact of shale gas on climate change offers some important caveats to this recommendation. The report argues that UK shale gas can be part […]

Will the Paris COP21 Climate Conference Make a Difference or Should We Try Something New?

“Will COP21 make a difference?” This was the question being posed by Professor Scott Barrett, leading expert on transnational and global challenges and Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. Speaking at the London School of Economics, Barrett asked: “Will [Paris] sow the seeds… that will lead us to do what we need to do, […]

Edelman Wins Cautious Praise For Ditching Climate Denier and Coal Clients

This is a guest post by Dan Zegart from the Climate Investigations Center. The world’s largest public relations firm said today it will no longer represent coal producers or climate change deniers. Edelman’s change of direction was reported today in a story in the Guardian newspaper that was based on a leaked internal email. The email revealed […]

Here’s The Surprisingly Simple Way President Obama Can Keep 450 Billion Tons Of CO2 Out Of The Atmosphere

President Obama has at his disposal right now several tools with which he could keep an amount of greenhouse gases equivalent to the annual emissions of 118,000 coal-fired power plants out of the atmosphere, according to a new report from the Center for Biological Diversity. Executive authorities granted to the president under three federal laws […]

Millenials Urge Climate Action, Could Sway 2016 Election

In the United States, we have yet to enact a single piece of national legislation to address climate change. And the group that will be most effected by this lack of action, Millenials, are fed up with the lack of action in America. According to a new report by NextGen Climate, young voters are increasingly concerned […]

Will Australia's New Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Be A Climate Hawk?

Australia’s new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is probably the nearest the country’s conservative ranks have to a climate hawk. During his short ten years in public office as a member of the Liberal Party, Turnbull has been a staunch defender of climate change science and an advocate for tackling rising greenhouse gas emissions as a “risk […]

How the Media Shapes Public Response to Climate Change

Climate change stories that give local information and emphasize positive achievements are more likely to encourage people to become active participants in climate change action than stories of political failures, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has found . Researchers worked with focus groups made up of 53 people from the Metro […]

Interview: Emily Hunter on the Modern Green Movement and How To Change The World

How did the green movement start and where is it headed? DeSmog UK previewed the new documentary How To Change The World, which depicts a group of idealistic hippies ready to take on the world. In this long-read we speak with Emily Hunter,  environmental activist and daughter of ‘eco-hero’ Robert Hunter, about today’s environmental activism. As […]

Canada’s Highest Court Gives Ecuadorians Green Light To Pursue Chevron Assets

Chevron lost a high-profile pollution case in Ecuador in 2011 and was ordered to pay $9.5 billion for cleanup of billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon rainforest. So far, the company hasn’t paid a dime — but a recent ruling in Canada might finally force Chevron to pay up. Chevron appealed the 2011 […]

Renewable Energy Triumphs in Lancashire as Solar Farm is Approved Next to Rejected Fracking Site

Anti-Fracking campaigners have welcomed a local council’s decision to approve the development of a solar farm just across the road from where Cuadrilla has spent years trying to get permission to carry out hydrolic fracturing. The solar farm is expected to produce enough electricity to power around 1,300 homes and save approximately 2,310 tonnes of carbon […]