Broadly speaking, climate reparations represent two strands of support that the rich western world needs to provide the poorer, third world areas of the world to help them deal with climate change.

When the UN was set up after the Second World War, environmental issues were not a major concern. In fact, for the first 32 years of its existence, environmental issues were dealt with under the auspices of the UN World Meteorological Organisation. It was in 1968 that the first UN Conference on the Human Environment started laying the groundwork for what would eventually become the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Keep reading to find out more.

Our interest in Greenhouse Gases dates back much further than people realise. Initially sparked by research into lunar radiation on earth, these calculations were astonishingly accurate and began to kindle the first research into the effects of greenhouse gases. Here is what you need to know about the research to date, how it put a name to climate change and what global stakeholders are doing about it.