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Presence of world leaders 'paralysed' climate summit, UN letter claims  
guardian.co.uk,  Monday 31 May 2010

United Nations climate chief says Danish presidency's backing for US also derailed Copenhagen negotiations

Copenhagen climate failure blamed on 'Danish text' guardian.co.uk, Monday 31 May 2010

The UN's climate change chief blamed a secret draft treaty, leaked to the Guardian, for the summit failure

20th century one of driest in 9 centuries for northwest Africa
May 25, 2010

The first multi-century drought reconstruction that includes Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia shows frequent and severe droughts during the 13th and 16th centuries and the latter part of the 20th century.

Cooling buildings with the power of the sun
26.05.2010, www.dw-world.de

Sunlight can be used not just to warm homes but also to cool them and keep food fresh. Advanced and sustainable technologies for solar cooling already exist. But they’re still too expensive to be used on a global scale.

UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'
guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 May 2010 20.00 BST

Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report

Economic impacts of biodiversity loss: case studies
guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 May 2010

From forests in Japan to sea turtles in Tanzania to Scottish school dinners, the evidence of the global biodiversity crisis is evident

Ethiopian Catholic Church Held an International Conference on  Climate Justice

The Ethiopian Catholic Church Held an International conference on Climate Justice from June 2-4/ 2010 at the Ethiopian Catholic Church Bishops Conference Center, Addis Ababa.

Climate change to kill off a fifth of world's lizards: study, May 13, 2010

Global warming could kill off as many as a fifth of the world's lizards by 2080, with potentially devastating consequences for ecosystems around the world, a study released Thursday said. ...

Africa refining strategies for int'l negotiations on climate change, May 11, 2010.

... According to Meles, Africa has two major issues to address before the conference in Cancun. ...

Nature loss 'to damage economies', May 10, 2010

The Earth's ongoing nature losses may soon begin to hit national economies, a major UN report has warned. ...

Ozone hole discoverer's warning, May 6, 2010

The leader of the team which found the hole in the earth's protective ozone layer has urged world leaders to do more to safeguard the environment.

Iceland Volcano: No Global Cooling Yet, April 15, 2010

A vast cloud from an intensifying volcanic eruption in Iceland is too small so far to slow global warming as happened in 1991 with the explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, experts say.

UN Climate Conference in Bonn , 9-11 April 2010

After the Copenhagen Climate Summit the world still needs a fair, ambitious and binding treaty to protect people and nature from runaway climate change. Governments will meet for the first time since the Copenhagen Summit at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) inter-sessional in Bonn, Germany from 9 to 11 April.

Climate change deal could take another year, 09 Apr 2010

The world is unlikely to agree a deal to stop global warming this year, the head of climate change negotiations has admitted, as nations meet for the latest round of talks. ... 

African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?

African Future, 21 December - While the world is discussing how to slow down global warming, many hold the most important issue now is to gather more knowledge about how an already changing climate will affect the poorest continent and what can be done to help Africans meeting these new challenges. Ignoring the decreasing minority still denying man-made climate changes, there exist two colliding views of what a warmer climate will mean in Africa. One focuses on more droughts, natural disasters, spread of diseases and resource conflicts. Other scientists hold that the picture could be much more positive as some climate models strongly indicate that many of Africa's poorest regions will get more rainfall. ...

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