Copenhagen Accord

Almost every country in the world has signed up to the “historic” agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) launches its latest report on the prospects for the world’s environment.

The biggest social housing landlord in the north west says almost a quarter of its tenants subject to the so-called “bedroom tax” are being forced to leave their homes.

After talks running over into Sunday morning, the Durban UN conference on climate change finally ends with an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire next year.

Negotiations at the UN climate change conference in South Africa continue into Saturday – but prospects are fading for any internationally binding deal before the Kyoto Protocol expires.

The government has abandoned plans to fund a commercial carbon capture and storage (CSS) project at ScottishPower’s plant at Longannet, Fife.

What has been called a ‘modest’ climate change deal has been agreed by nearly 200 nations at a UN conference in Mexico. But there were objections from Bolivia who said the deal did not go far enough.

Most scientists agree that the world is getting hotter due to climate change, yet there remains little agreement on the solutions.

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”.

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.

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

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?

Governments are already striving to replace nuclear fission reactors with cleaner alternatives, but given the scale of climate change should we be investing in fusion? Channel 4 News asks the experts.