Photos From NYC Climate Action March Last Weekend In Solidarity With Paris COP21

This is a guest photo essay by Zach Roberts. While peaceful climate change protesters were being hit with tear gas and pepper spray in Paris over the weekend, hundreds marched around New York City city hall in a quiet demonstration of solidarity. The People’s Climate Movement of New York organized the march in the Big Apple […]

Exposed: ExxonMobil Funding Influential Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy

In a sentence buried at the very bottom of a story making headlines nationwide, Politico revealed for the first time one of the funders of Columbia University’s influential Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP). The funder: ExxonMobil, the company embroiled in a New York state Attorney General investigation for its extensive internal knowledge of the impacts of climate change […]

New Study Exposes True Extent, Influence Of Climate Denial Echo Chamber For First Time

Thanks to a recent poll from ABC News and the Washington Post, we know that nearly two-thirds of American adults think global warming is “a serious problem facing the country.” And now, thanks to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change (full study available at this link), we know exactly how many people are […]

Climate News Mosaic COP 21 Live Blog

DeSmog is happy to feature the daily live blog produced by the Climate News Mosaic throughout the fortnight of the Paris COP21 United Nations climate conference. Climate News Mosaic (CNM) is a transboundary collaborative journalism effort to report in real-time from the COP21 climate summit and around the world. Check in every day for fresh content […]

Global Leaders Fight for New 1.5 Degrees Warming Target at COP21 Climate Talks

A coalition of vulnerable countries is pushing the global community to adopt a new 1.5 degree global warming target at the ongoing climate talks in Paris. The group of countries, known as the Climate Vulnerability Forum, argues current efforts to limit global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius is insufficient to protect many nations from the […]

First Days at Paris Climate Talks: Riots, Selfies and a Whole Lot of Expectation

A lot of people today have been asking whether the ‘French gamble’ paid off. Did having over 150 heads of state in Paris for the first day of COP21 set the bar for ambitious, meaningful and successful negotiations, or was it just a chaotic mess creating unrealistic expectations? Never has an international summit seen this many […]

Matt 'King Coal' Ridley's COP21 Claims Create More Heat than Light

GUEST POST BY SOU AT HOTWHOPPER It’s not just deniers who have sunk to a new low. Scientific American has too. The magazine made something of a mockery of a collection of in-depth articles about climate change by including an article from science disinformer Matt Ridley. I’m told Matt’s article is only in the online edition, not the […]

Cameron Commits Complete Climate COP Out

BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS David Cameron blustered through his three minute speech before 146 fellow world leaders in Paris tonight for the COP21 negotiations by imagining future generations asking “what was so difficult” about preventing catastrophic climate change. The prime minister employed rhetorical dexterity to avoid any firm commitments on behalf of […]

Australia ‘Implementing Tony Abbott’s Policies' at COP21 Says Opposition Leader

KYLA MANDEL AND BRENDAN MONTAGUE IN PARIS Bill Shorten, the Labor leader, attacked Australian climate policy as lacking in ambition today at the Paris climate conference. Shorten held an impromtu press conference among surprised reporters at the COP21 conference moments after the country’s new prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announced his commitment to the second stage of the Kyoto Protocol. […]

Prince Charles Demands Governments Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies

BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS Fossil fuel subsides totalling $500 billion globally must be scrapped to prevent catastrophic climate change, the Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group told the COP21 conference today. John Key, the New Zealand Prime Minister, presented the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Communiqué to Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework […]