Droughts, floods, sea-level rises and fiercer storms likely to undermine progress in developing world and hit food supply [...] Read more ...
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European Parliament Environment Committee approves backloading proposals, allowing vote to be put to the whole house in July [...] Read more ...
US President Barack Obama has called for more efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. Read more ...
If the Cap Fits says that the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is currently too weak, which could lead to a surge in new coal generation. It will also fail to meet the European Union’s own carbon reduction objectives. The paper argues that a more ambitious cap on Europe’s emissions is essential and makes recommendations for reform. Read more ...
The other day, an MP, some councillors (including His Worship the Mayor), a handful of teachers and a vicar — all supposedly upright and res [...] Read more ...
So long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe, Obama told a crowd of thousands. President Obama said he would ask Congress to reduce the U. Read more ...
US president renews call to reduce number of nuclear weapons held by Russia and US by one-third. Read more ...
President sticks to big themes of freedom and openness but acknowledges concerns over threats to privacy and drone strikes [...] Read more ...
US President Barack Obama arrives in Berlin at the start of a visit during which he will address crowds at the city's famous Brandenburg Gate. Read more ...
Speech from east side of Brandenburg Gate recalls Cold War history, focuses on challenges ahead. Read more ...
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday said all members of the Group of Eight leading nations, including Russia, agreed on the need for a transitional governing body in Syria to enable a political transition and an end to the bloody civil war. Read more ...
President Barack Obama, in a major foreign policy speech in Berlin on Wednesday, is set to make the case for a new phase in nuclear weapons reductions, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the plans. Read more ...
President Barack Obama will call for up to a one-third cut in nuclear warheads by the United States and Russia during a speech in Berlin on Wednesday [...] Read more ...
Ed Davey, Britain's Climate Change fool is on the loose again, still preaching the discredited texts of the Church of Climatology and liberally insulting any British voters who disagree with his be [...] Read more ...
Statoil is evaluating a new discovery of high-quality oil off the coast of Newfoundland, about 500 kilometres northeast of St. John’s, N.L., the Norwegian oil giant announced Wednesday [...] Read more ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce on Tuesday he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons, aiming to cut them by up to one third below the level achieved in the last [...] Read more ...
Some oil traders say they try to skew Platts oil-price benchmarks by offering to do small deals at a loss, with the goal of doing bigger ones at better prices. Read more ...
There's a new determination among major players like China to tackle climate change, the World Bank president says [...] Read more ...
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama will ask Russia to join the United States in slashing its supply of strategic nuclear warheads by about one-third, a senior administration official said. Obama will announce the goal during a speech Wednesday in Berlin -- a city rife with Cold War history. Read more ...
This was a card-shredder of a performance by Ed Miliband. He’s had some difficult outings lately but he barely even showed up at PMQs today. His team of phrase-makers and… [...] Read more ...
When you hear the same promises from leaders for years, or even decades, cynicism is inevitable. So I will forgive any readers who laugh when I predict there is going to be significant progress on one of the thorniest issues facing our community: the [...] Read more ...
Climate change sceptics are "crackpots and conspiracy theorists", Energy Secretary Ed Davey has said. Read more ...
US president's proposals will include one-third reduction in American and Russian arsenals, White House says [...] Read more ...
As Washington decides what to do about potential nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, Newt Gingrich returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to point out what he called an equally grave danger: an electromagnetic pulse. Addressing members of the Electromagnetic Pulse Caucus, the former Republican House speaker from Georgia said the fallout from a. Read more ...
There’s no word yet if the Russians will follow suit after President Obama. Read more ...
Whither the weather? As you may have heard, a conference of national forecasters assembled this week in Exeter: to discuss the future of the British climate, following the spate of harsher than expected winters, and unusually wet summers, since 2007. Already, commentators are asking if global warming is to blame. In particular, some are wondering [ [...] Read more ...
Cannes Lions: Top executive Astro Teller calls innovation unit 'moonshot factory of Peter Pans with PhDs kind of running amok'. By John Reynolds [...] Read more ...
Report on Options for Implementing Additional Nuclear Force Reductions [...] Read more ...
Many people believe that nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. As Pifer and O’Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, it is in fact of major relevance to some of today's key and urgent security challenges. Read more ...
After making steady progress on nuclear weapons in the first two years of his presidency, Obama stalled after Republicans waged a fierce battle against ratifying the New START treaty. Recent speeches -- and Obama's picks for secretary of state and secretary of defense -- indicate that he is ready to resume the fight. Read more ...
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