Climate change: special report

After months of hype the Copenhagen climate change summit took place in December 2009 but resulted not in a binding deal between the world’s leaders, but an “accord”.

Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on India’s power surge as the country ramps up its plan to connect the entire population to electricity, telling the west to stop preaching over climate change.

Science Correspondent Tom Clarke reports from the Canadian Arctic, where scientists are investigating ocean acidification – one of the least publicised but most worrying effects of climate change.

What does it feel like to sleep on an ice block floating on top of 200 metres of ocean? Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke blogs from his tent in the Arctic.

The Copenhagen summit took place under a cloud of sceptism after leaked emails appeared to show UK scientists exaggerating the threat of climate change.

Burning coal is the cheapest way America makes electricity but it is dirty. Sarah Smith visits the coal mining heartland of West Virginia and finds a way of life under threat.

Should rich countries pay to save the world’s rainforests? Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller travelled through the Amazon to find out if a strategy called the Redd plan can really work.

Channel 4 News spends a week in Brazil and finds an emerging economic power house approaching environmental crossroads.

If every home in the UK was properly insulated carbon emissions would drop by 3.8 million tonnes. But can ageing British housing stock keep up with the green revolution?

Agriculture is the second largest source of UK greenhouse gases contributing to seven per cent of total emissions. So how will cultivation evolve in order to meet climate targets?

A threat to civilisation or a natural cycle in the life of planet earth? Although the scientific consensus is that man-made global warming is with us, there are still prominent deniers in the debate.

Hailed as both climate saviour and food stock stealer biofuels are one of the most controversial technologies in the fight against greenhouse gases. Do our experts think they are the answer?

What holds the greatest promise for tackling climate change? Channel 4 News posed the question to scientists before the Copenhagen summit in December 2009. Here are their 10 climate-saving ideas.

Could cloud whitening and sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere balance the effects of climate change? Our scientists give us their geoengineering ideas.

In order to keep many businesses running computers must be cooled. But that comes at a price for the economy and the environment. So can companies continue to keep cool?