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Right now, climate change minister Chris Huhne is preparing to attend world climate talks in South Africa. That means it’s a crunch moment on climate change for the government that promised to be the ‘greenest ever’. Please take a minute to send Chris Huhne an email to help him realise...

The RSPB and The Stop Climate Chaos Coalition are excited to announce the launch of the African Climate Connection. From 26 November until 3 December there's a host of African themed events taking place with the aim of showing MPs how much people in their constituencies care about climate change...

The UK Government is proposing to incentivise highly damaging bioenergy projects as it tries to meet renewable energy targets. Bioenergy is energy produced by burning organic materials such as wood, crops or wastes and RSPB research has shown that under current plans 33 million tonnes of wood could be...

The Government today finally published their proposals for future support for renewable energy. We and many others have been waiting for these for some time, concerned about rumours that they had got held up by Treasury and then in Number 10. There have been no shortages of critics of renewables...

Posted by John Lanchbery, Principal Climate Change Adviser, from the climate conference in Panama Sunday in Panama City began with a huge thunderstorm at about six o’clock but the UN climate talks continued as usual; first with country grouping coordinations at eight or nine o’clock and...

Climate check – It’s report time for the Coalition The RSPB has been working on a Green Alliance-led project with fellow NGOs WWF, Christian Aid and Greenpeace to carry out a rigorous assessment of the Coalition Government’s performance on climate change, 16 months on from when it...

We’ve had two bits of bad news so far this year. The first was that global greenhouse gas emissions reached record levels last year in spite of the economic downturn ( IEA 2011 ) . As it stands, it is likely that the world will have increased in temperature by an average of 4 o C by 2070s (...

Today, the RSPB has joined forces with fourteen other organisations to send the Prime Minister a letter - a kind of end-of-year exam to let him know how he's getting on. Not surprisingly, it's a bit mixed. There are good things, bad things and quite a lot that's simply too early to judge...

After nearly a year on the road, around 5,000 miles covered and 250 species in the bag, Gary Prescott, aka the biking birder, has finally become the first person ever to visit every RSPB nature reserve in one year, and on a bike no less! Gary, a special needs teacher from Warwick, finally finished...

To much applause from those assembled, early on Saturday morning (11 December) a deal on climate change was agreed here in Cancun. Whilst the content of the agreement will scarcely scratch the surface of the climate crisis, the fact that agreement was possible is remarkable following the bad faith and...