Many economists are failing to assess the value of their countries' natural resources, putting billion's of people's well-being at risk and contributing to catastrophic species loss, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme report.

The agreement, if it is reached, could determine how the forests of Africa are managed in decades to come, and whether or not local communities will benefit from it. This law could turn into a "massive human rights disaster" if it is not worded correctly,

President Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month, according to a senior administration official, a sign of the president's increasing confidence that the talks will yield a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhou

China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal.

Climate change is likely to increase the risk of conflict in African countries over the next 20 years. The reasons are documented in this column.

Canada is engaged in the dirtiest project ever engaged by humanity...

s author and 350.org founder Bill McKibben says, addressing global climate change is simply "the biggest problem humans have ever faced."

this story should never have been called ClimateGate. Given the similarities between this smear job and the Swift Boat attacks on Senator John Kerry, SwiftHack is a far more appropriate name.

The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month's UN climate summit, according to a White House official.

Large sums promised to developing countries to help them tackle climate change cannot be accounted for, a BBC investigation has found.