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The article discusses the rising global backlash against pro-climate policies, where various political movements oppose climate action and question the need for major changes to combat climate change. This backlash is fueled by concerns about economic disruption and the potential costs of transitioning to cleaner energy sources. Populist politicians are using this skepticism to their advantage, and this partisan divide on climate change is undermining effective climate policy.

The article highlights the importance of compliance with the Paris climate target agreement in light of the climate crisis in 2021. Topics discussed include the aim of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius, impact of a two-degree-Celsius warming on small-island states, 420 million people and Arctic ice cover, and implication of the failure of governments to enact the announced environmental policies to address climate change.

The author reflects on how to stabilise the global climate, particularly on stopping electricity generation from generating fossil-fuel-derived emissions. Also cited are the importance of greening and expanding the electricity grids worldwide to address climate change, and the challenges in advancing green electricity projects like limited investments and planning regulations.

The article looks at environmental conditions and environmental policy in China in areas including air pollution, water pollution and water supply, and energy production. Topics include trends in China's carbon dioxide emissions in the context of concern about global climate change and its intensive use of coal for electricity production.

The article discusses the impact of climate changes including Supercyclone Amphan and the need for more and better climate-adaptation policies and societies must prepare for impacts. Topics include Bangladesh's policies regarding adaptation to climate risks such as cyclone shelters, new rice varieties and floating farms; how businesses need to look at their vulnerabilities to climate change; and a study which found that parts of the tropics could become too hot to sustain human life.

The article discusses the ongoing battle faced by German electric utilities company RWE with environmentalists. Topics covered include the standoff between the German police and activists protesting against coal mine expansion in Hambach forest, a lawsuit filed by a Peruvian farmer against RWE for its contribution to climate change, and the company's vow to become carbon neutral by 2040.

This article reports on environmental policy in Australia in 2011. The article discusses Australian environmentalism related to climate change, natural disasters like droughts and storms, and natural resources. Information is also provided on climate change skepticism, flood control, and agriculture.

This article reports on the success of the carbon market, which allows industries to buy and sell carbon dioxide credits. The purpose of setting up the market was, first, to establish a price for carbon and, second, to encourage efficient emissions reductions by allowing companies which would find it expensive to cut emissions to buy credits more cheaply. It has had some success on both counts. INSET: Irrational incandescence.

The article focuses on Jason Kenney, conservative leader of Alberta and a formidable opponent to Justin Trudeau, the Liberal prime minister of Canada. Topics discussed include the national climate-change plan that Trudeau created in 2016 with eight of Canada's ten provincial leaders, opposition from some provinces to Trudeau's plans and opposition of environmentalists and some indigenous groups to an oil pipeline that would pass through Alberta and British Columbia.

The article discusses the U.S. policy on climate change. Topics discussed include President Donald Trump's criticism against the Paris climate agreement in 2015, his plan to withdraw from the agreement and the U.S. role in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Also discussed are Trump's threat not to honor former president Barack Obama's pledge to reduce U.S. carbon emissions below 2005 levels by 2025 and the outlook for climate pledges for China and Germany.

This article presents information about the increase in skepticism about global warming and its potentially catastrophic effect on the planet. With an impending United Nations meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss the problem, surveys indicate that Republicans in the U.S. sharply disagree with warnings about climatic change. Many of those who support the urgency of responding to global warming believe that an optimistic approach would receive a better support response from the public.

The article discusses efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions in India. Topics include the public health impact of air pollution in India, the relation between economic growth and pollution in India, and the project environmental impact of climate change on India. The use of economic considerations to argue for renewable energy production is addressed.

This article presents an editorial discussing the major issues to be addressed at the forthcoming Group of 8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland. In less than two weeks the leaders of the world's largest economies will meet at Gleneagles, a posh golf resort in the Scottish highlands, for the G8 summit. Astonishingly, these get-togethers have not always achieved a great deal. Since their creation 30 years ago, G8 summits have often been blown off course by random events, or been marred by empty grandstanding before the accompanying media circus. In one way, things look more promising this year. Britain, which is currently chairing the G8, is determined that the leaders should focus on two big issues--African poverty and climate change--which are both huge problems and need to be addressed at a global level. In another way, things don't look so promising: the rich world's leaders will probably pass up on the chance to discuss the most important thing they could do to slow climate change--set up a global system for trading carbon-emissions permits. That's because U.S. President George W. Bush is adamantly opposed to the limits on pollution that any such scheme requires.

The article discusses the political debate over global warming. "The intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history." So warns Michael Crichton at the end of his current, popular novel, "State of Fear". He argues that wilful obfuscation by politicians and wild-eyed greens is leading to a herd mentality over global warming, akin to the uncritical embrace of eugenics a century ago. "Once again," he intones ominously, "critics are few and harshly dealt with." At first blush, it appears that Dr Crichton might have a point. Of course, there was once an intense global debate over global warming's most sacred cow--the Kyoto protocol on climate change. The treaty calls for immediate reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases by industrialised countries. George Bush upset many greens by abruptly confirming in 2001 that America would never ratify the Kyoto treaty. But other countries did ratify it, and it is due to come into full force for them on February 16th. Despite Kyoto's coming into force, vigorous debate between and among climate skeptics and climate hawks continues. First, consider the ongoing haggling over the science. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a body of leading scientists which advises the UN on climate issues, has established that the Earth is indeed warming, thanks in part to man's burning of fossil fuels. However, questions still remain as to the particulars. For example, when Kevin Trenberth, head of the IPCC's panel on hurricanes, recently suggested that there exists a link between climate change and the wave of powerful hurricanes last year, he was immediately challenged. Christopher Landsea, a hurricane expert at America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, resigned from the IPCC panel, arguing that Dr Trenberth's comments went beyond what the peer-reviewed science could justify.

Presents the view that nations should work on global mechanisms for dealing with climate change as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol. Topic of efforts of Europeans to revive interest in the treaty, and view that it may collapse; Question of what countries should do regarding climate change if the treaty fails; View that the best approach to tackling climate problems is with a binding global treaty.

The article offers world politics news briefs. Venezuela set a date for congressional elections, leading jailed opposition leader Leopoldo López to end a hunger strike. A Netherlands court issued a ruling on the responsibility of the government in the area of climate change. The gross domestic product of Syria has dropped sharply in the context of the country's civil war.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Worse Than Useless," published in the January 25, 2014 issue.

The article focuses on the climate change predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Topics include why some of the climate change forecasts released by the IPCC have been incorrect, the warming of the oceans, and how the world should respond to revelations that global warming is continuing.

An editorial is presented on the subject of environmental conditions and environmental policy in China. It notes that China's emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a matter of global concern because the country is so large and because of the problem of climate change. Topics include bilateral negotiations between China and the U.S. over greenhouse gas emissions, the relationship between pollution and industrialization, and the health impacts of pollution within China.

The editorial focuses on global warming, noting climate change might not be happening as fast as researchers predicted but governments still need to develop climate policies, and also refers to an article in this issue. The editorial notes climate change seems to have plateaued but the risk remains uncertain. It also notes concerns about the loss of Arctic ice and industrial carbon-dioxide emissions.

The article discusses efforts to gather electricity from ocean tides and waves. Tidal power stations are already operational in many countries including China, France, and Portugal. A legislator from Washington state is urging the U.S. Congress to spend $50 million on ocean-power research. The drive for clean, renewable ocean power is a reaction to high oil prices and concern over global climate change.

This article reports on the issue of climate change within the politics and policies of the European Union. At a recent summit European leaders agreed to some ambitious targets. By 2020, the 27 EU countries will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% below the 1990 level. Unfortunately, there were very few concrete proposals as to how to meet those goals.

This article reports on grass-roots efforts for environmental protection in the United States. Could the next grass-roots revolution in America be over climate change? George Bush stomped out of the UN's Kyoto treaty on global warming three years ago and did a U-turn on campaign pledges to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). Since then, he has refused to come up with sensible domestic policies. Yet that very obstinacy has fomented a backlash in the states. Massachusetts led the way by imposing curbs on CO2 emissions from power plants. The New England states have also joined the eastern provinces of Canada in vowing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 12% by the end of the decade. Not to be outdone by Yankees, California, Oregon and Washington have now banded together to tackle climate change. California has passed the country's first law regulating emissions of greenhouse gases from cars.

The article focuses on the success and failure of various environmental protocols. In Montreal, the threat came mainly from the harm that chlorofluorocarbons do to the ozone layer; in Kyoto, from gases such as carbon dioxide that many scientists say are changing the climate. Both treaties thus tried to tackle problems that potentially affect every country, and are caused by activities that occur in every country. Both were negotiated against a background of scientific uncertainty. The science of ozone depletion was uncertain when the Montreal Protocol was negotiated in 1987; the uncertainties surrounding the science of climate change are huge.

At the beginning of 2001 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released, as the main result of its massive Third Assessment Review, a set of figures that have become the most-cited numbers in the field of environmental policy, and quite possibly the most-cited numbers in any field of public policy. Two distinguished commentators--Ian Castles of the National Centre for Development Studies at Australian National University, formerly the head of Australia's national office of statistics; and David Henderson of the Westminster Business School--have put together a critique of the panel's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. The projections imply that, even for the lowest emission scenarios, the average income of South Africans will have overtaken that of United States citizens by a very wide margin by the end of the century. In fact the U.S. per capita income will then have been surpassed not only by South Africa's, but also by that of other emerging economic powerhouses, including Algeria, Argentina, Libya, Turkey and North Korea.

Discusses the views of United States President George W. Bush on global warming. How he rescinded on a campaign promise to curb carbon dioxide emissions; His views on the role of the U.S. in stopping climate change; Opinion that Bush's environmental policy is hypocritical; Efforts of the European Union to stop global warming.

Discusses the outlook for legislation regulating the production of greenhouse gases in light of a November 2, 1999 United Nations climate-change conference. History of the legislation; The accord reached in Kyoto, Japan; Challenges facing the legislation.

Reports on the meeting of environment ministers in Washington D.C. to negotiate a treaty on global climate change. Persuasion of countries to reduce greenhouse gases; Cooperation of sovereign powers; Cost of the controlled output of carbon dioxide.