A WHACKING 15,000 delegates descended on Cancun at the weekend. Expectations were not high. The problem for those seeking the Holy Grail of a deal to “save the planet” was that the climate change debate has changed.

Weather groups around the world have agreed to collect more precise temperature data to try to improve climate change science.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged environment ministers to reject attempts by sceptics to undermine efforts to forge a climate change deal, stressing that global warming poses "a clear and present danger".

Errors in an authoritative report about the impact of global warming on Himalayan glaciers should not detract from the overall conclusions drawn in the study, the UN climate chief said.

THE embattled chief of the United Nations climate change panel admitted yesterday that a mistake in a landmark 2007 report had damaged the body’s credibility.

A Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote the world's most authoritative report on global warming have apologised after five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph.

THE largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened yesterday, with organisers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last, best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.

THE world has failed to limit poverty and has instead increased the problems caused by climate change, a major European Union conference heard yesterday.

THE Arctic Ocean will be an “open sea” almost entirely free from ice within a decade, the latest data released yesterday indicates.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of some 150 governments today that time is running out for a new climate deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The United Nations’ leading climate change expert said Group of Eight nations had “clearly ignored” taking any concrete action to accomplish his panel’s new goal of limiting climate change.

CLOUD formation, sea level rises and extreme weather events are among areas set to get more attention in the next UN report on global warming due in 2014, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning panel has said.

CARBON taxes, parking levies and congestion charges should be rolled out to help slash Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions, a Dublin-based international think-tank said yesterday.

Carbon taxes, parking levies and congestion charges should be rolled out to help slash Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions, it was claimed today.

Rockers Bon Jovi are to headline India's upcoming Live Earth concert, according to internet reports.

IT’S everyone’s worst nightmare. You invite a group of friends over for a bite to eat and just as you’re all about to tuck in to a delicious dinner of smoked salmon and lamb cutlets, your old college pal’s latest girlfriend announces she’s a vegan.

CLIMATE change will be among the big issues at this week’s meeting of the world’s business and political elite in Davos, Switzerland, and they could start by confronting their own carbon footprint.

INDIA’S Tata Motors yesterday unveiled its $2,500 (€1,695) car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people.

Climate-change critics complain they have been kept out of the international debate by mainstream scientists who dismiss them as oil industry lobbyists or lunatics.

Climate change campaigner and former vice president candidate Al Gore today accused the US of blocking progress at the Bali talks.

Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today and called on humanity to mobilise at once against the dangers of a changing climate.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

Former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations’ chief climate scientist met Norwegian leaders early today to kick off the official programme leading up to them accepting the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo tomorrow.

Climate change campaigner Al Gore is favourite to win the Nobel Peace Prize announced tomorrow.

An international global warming conference today approved a report warning of dire threats to the Earth and to mankind unless the world adapts to climate change and halts its progress.

Scientists from around the world gathered in Paris today to complete a long-awaited, authoritative report on climate change, expected to give a grim warning of rising temperatures and sea levels worldwide.

Human-caused global warming is visible in the air, water and melting ice and destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative world report will warn.

EVIDENCE is growing that global warming is already starting to disrupt the world’s delicately-balanced climate system and the damage will reverberate for generations, a top science conference was told yesterday.