Today Greenpeace activists locked down four excavators in the carbon-rich Kampar Peninsula belonging to pulp and paper company APRIL to highlight the need to immediately halt all deforestation in Indonesia.

Carbon emission from deforestation and degr... Read more >

Here at Sign On HQ, focus has well and truly shifted to the campaign’s big finale for 2009 – simultaneous marches in Auckland and Wellington, and a free concert in Myers Park at the end of the Auckland march, featuring Opshop, Midnight Youth, Kirste... Read more >

Imagine that you could write a love letter to the future - what would it say?

Future generations will be living with the consequences of whatever action we take - or do not take - on climate change, would you send them messages of hope and inspiration... Read more >

Oh dear, it gets worse.

"New Zealand is blaming the Kyoto Protocol for its low emissions target," a delegate (from where I couldn’t possibly divulge) just told me at the climate change talks in Barcelona today.

This comment came after New Zealand spo... Read more >

I received a curious email yesterday from our man at the UN climate talks in Spain, Geoff Keey. It began thus: “Last night, wind power supplied more than 40% of electricity demand here in Spain, with peaks of 44%. Spain has more than 17,000 MW of wind... Read more >

Scotland has adopted a 42% climate change target. That, and a wee rumour of free whisky, encouraged me to attend a side event organised by the Scottish Government.
Unfortunately there wasn’t any free whisky, but I did learn a lot about Scotland’s effo...

Kyoto Protocol negotiations will resume tomorrow after intense negotiations behind closed doors following yesterday's crisis.  The African group has been meeting with developed countries late into the night, also going public stating that the numbers ... Read more >