The scientific evidence continues to mount. The climate is changing, the effects are already being felt, and human activities are a principal cause.“Without effective action, climate change is going to be larger and more difficult to deal with than we thought"

Production of rice—the world’s most important crop for ensuring food security and addressing poverty—will be thwarted as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas with continued climate change, according to a new study by an international team of scientists.

The wooden trolleys and rusty winch on the beach may look like they belong to a bygone era, but for hundreds of fishing families they are essential weapons against climate change.

Greenpeace Philippines said climate change could amplify the proliferation and transmission of water-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever because of changes in water distribution, rising temperature and the explosion of microorganisms.

Not too many Filipinos are aware that we are now experiencing the El Niño phenomenon, which will last until middle of 2010. This is the reason why the Department of Agriculture (DA) has already created a task force which would carry out mitigating measures to avert the adverse effects of the dry-spell on food production of the country.

Outcome of COP 15 in Copenhagen: A Review and Analysis By Saleemul Huq, Achala Chandani and Simon Anderson.

The President of Timor Leste, Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told Gaia Discovery in an exclusive interview at his residence in Dili on 27 December 2009 that countries should get over the stalemate that strangled positive outcomes at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. He proposed having an Asian Climate Change Summit to focus on Asian issues and needs.

A 40 chapter interactive multimedia disc of innovative, proven, cost-effective new technologies for integrated sustainable development, adaptation to rising temperature and sea level, and solutions for reversing global climate change was circulated to all United Nations Conference on Climate Change COP-15 delegations today.

Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane absorb heat, reducing the amount that escapes back to space. As the atmosphere abso€rbs heat energy it warms the oceans and the surface of the Earth. This process is called the greenhouse effect. An estimated 19% of the world’s methane production comes from rice paddies. As populations increase in rice-growing areas, more rice and more methane are produced.

With more Filipinos added daily to the current population of 87 million, the use of fossil fuels is most likely to increase. “Unless new oil fields are discovered and developed, the crude oil supply will be critical within the next 40 years apart from becoming prohibitively expensive,” warned Dr. Renato Labadan, one of the most prominent scientific minds in the country.

The International Institute for Environment and Development has published some papers on climate change.

The climate change summit may have ended in failure, but it showed rare unity of purpose between India and China which took on the industrialised world together at the closing moments of the climate summit here. The Indian position also received support from Pakistan.

An extra billion people will face water shortage, cereal production in developing countries will drop and coastal regions will face more damage from floods and storms because of delay in combating climate change, says a leading expert.

The climate summit ended in the early hours of Saturday with the collapse of a key deal to pay developing countries to cope with global warming. The senior-most member of the Indian government delegation said: "This is one of the saddest moments I have witnessed" during his attendance in 12 such summits.

A "green new deal" to get the world out of the financial and climate crises at the same time - that was the message of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as he opened the 'high-level segment' of the Dec 1-12 climate change summit here Thursday, with praise for India's plan to fight global warming.

Mossy pine groves and picture postcard lakes give way to huge grey gashes in the earth where giant machines scoop up brown coal and deliver it to the power plant next door. The mine and the power plant were once proud signs of industrial activity. Today they are badges of pollution.

Climate change is already drowning homes of people in coastal areas, especially in the developing world. The money available to them from the international community to adapt to a new life is less than a percent of what the UN says will be needed.

Lech Walesa started the Solidarity movement in this country 25 years ago. Monday, at the inauguration of the annual UN summit on climate change, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for a new global solidarity to combat the menace.

If your company is looking to make a commitment to fade its carbon footprint or increase ways to benefit the environment, it can do so by pledging to become “climate neutral” through the Climate Neutral Network. Also called CN Net, this unique internet platform extends to communities, associations, cities and countries (Costa Rica, Iceland, New Zealand and Norway have since joined). Even individuals can take a pledge to do their bit.

Caring for Climate: The Business Leadership Platform launched in July 2007 seeks to involve and engage participating companies worldwide to sit together – maybe over doughnuts and coffee - to jointly tackle environmental crises