India pressures Pepsi to reduce sugar in drinks and snacks
India has urged PepsiCo, the US-based drink and snack-food company, to reduce the sugar content in its carbonated beverages, making it the latest country to formally express concern about the impact of
View ArticleIngersoll-Rand to phase out chemicals linked to climate change
Ingersoll-Rand, the Dublin-based manufacturing group, plans to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which can have a much more powerful global warming effect than carbon dioxide, by 2030. The move comes
View ArticleClimate change groups split on fossil fuel divestment
A rift is emerging among investors in some of the world’s biggest energy companies over a global campaign that aims to combat climate change by making fossil fuels as unpopular as tobacco. Over the
View ArticleBritish robot maps radiation at Fukushima
A robot developed by a UK start-up is helping to locate hazardous radiation sources at the scene of the Fukushima disaster, the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Createc, a small imaging
View ArticleFalling oil prices threaten electric cars and biofuels
Tumbling oil prices look set to hit electric cars and biofuels harder than other parts of the green power industry, the head of the world’s leading renewable energy agency has warned. That is because
View ArticleCarmakers braced for European crackdown on diesel vehicles
The French government, which owns about 15 per cent of carmakers Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroën, has pledged to “progressively” ban from 2015 diesel vehicles — which account for two-thirds of car sales
View ArticleGlobal warming poses ‘biggest challenge’ to National Trust
Year-long silverfish infestations, battered coastlines and other consequences of a changing climate mean global warming is now the biggest single threat to the National Trust, the charity’s head has...
View ArticleEbola still a mortal danger in west Africa, warn health leaders
Ebola remains a mortal danger in west Africa a year after the first cases were confirmed, health leaders have warned, as a fresh infection in Liberia dashed hopes that the country might be close to...
View ArticleMonsanto rejects claim weedkiller contains ‘probable carcinogen’
Monsanto has called for the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency to retract a report that found that glyphosate, the world’s most widely-used herbicide, a “probable carcinogen”. Brett Begemann,
View ArticleChina seeks to snuff out graveyard smoke
China urged its citizens to find greener ways to honour their dead, on Sunday calling for a “low carbon” tomb-sweeping festival free from the vulgarity of past years, which have seen the burning of...
View ArticlePolitics, red tape ‘turning EU clean energy into zombie industry’
The EU’s dysfunctional political system is turning clean energy companies into a “zombie industry” of the living dead, the head of one of the bloc’s biggest green power groups has warned. Manuel Sánchez
View ArticleObama’s climate change legacy at risk from conservative heartland
President Barack Obama’s attempt to leave a legacy of domestic action on climate change faces a proliferation of legal threats just as a global climate deal hangs in the balance, according to a state...
View ArticleUS accuses EU of undermining global food security
The US has accused the EU of undermining efforts to improve global food security by proposing new rules that would allow any of its 28 member states to opt out of decisions by Brussels to open the door
View ArticleAutomakers’ diesel pollution claims to be put to test by Brussels
Carmakers’ claims about their vehicles’ exhaust emissions — long criticised as wildly optimistic — are set to come under fresh scrutiny after the EU agreed to implement “real-world” testing for diesel
View Article$150bn needed to save world from climate change, warn scientists
They want large countries to spend an average of 0.02 per cent of gross domestic product a year for the next decade to encourage the technical breakthroughs needed to make renewable electricity cheaper
View ArticleStandard Chartered joins pact to prevent forest destruction
Standard Chartered bank has put palm oil and soy companies on notice that it will soon stop dealing with businesses whose operations drive the widespread destruction of tropical forests. The lender
View ArticleClimate talks advancing faster towards December deal
A groundbreaking UN climate-change deal is edging closer, according to a French government document, as countries scramble to avoid a repeat of the last big summit on the issue in 2009, which ended in
View ArticleNew emissions test still falls short, say critics
A tough new EU emissions test meant to better reflect carmakers’ performance will do little to bring official results into line with reality, a new report has warned. The car industry has long been
View ArticleGlobal warming alert as El Niño returns with a vengeance
The world is starting to heat up again, say British scientists, raising speculation that a 15-year slowdown in the rate of global warming could be coming to an end. A pause in the rate of global...
View ArticleUS views on climate change pose test for 2016 candidates
Global warming or hot air? Democratic politicians say climate change is a grave threat to the US. Their Republican counterparts accuse them of alarmism over a non-issue. A close study of public opinion
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