A floating city of half a million people on a vast plastic island. Does that sound like Waterworld? The vision could soon be a reality if Dutch conservationists have their way. Recycled Island is a plan to clean up 44 million kilos of plastic waste from the North Pacific Gyre, which stretches from California to Japan

Campaign group WWF will today advise the government that it could slash carbon emissions and save up to £100m by cutting the number of flights taken by civil servants over the next three years. The prediction forms the centrepiece of a new report, Excess Baggage: The case for reducing government flying, which argues that if the government followed its own recommendation…

Britain’s central government will cut its emissions of climate-warming carbon by 10 percent in the next 12 months, while speeding up the wider move to a low-carbon economy, the new UK Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday.

The climate crisis needs plenty of quality debate, around how best we should respond to a very urgent situation, but it does not need disgraceful distortions, and those who commit them (on either side) should have no legitimate part. Climate scientists are under pressure to be 100% accurate.

Ecosystems are buffering humanity against the worst impacts of global warming and also alleviating poverty, says United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The UK government has said it is “disappointed” the Copenhagen climate talks did not achieve legal commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month’s Copenhagen meeting.

Brazil will make its ambitious 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding even though global climate talks failed this month, the country’s environment minister has said.

U.N. climate talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates “noted” an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference’s original goals.

Getting the world to agree a new U.N. climate deal is as difficult as forcing schoolchildren to do their homework or to make horses drink, hosts of deadlocked U.N. talks said on Tuesday.