The availability of open, high-quality, consistent, and comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data is essential to understanding the global trend in GHG emissions, and for countries to see their
This article looks at the issue of climate change from a developing country perspective and develops an outline of a win-win-oriented climate policy around development priorities. It demonstrates how the great climate debate between the
The G8 or the world's most wealthy and developed countries have remained non-committal on setting targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, a demand being stressed by the emerging economies (G5) and other developing countries.
As President Barack Obama encouraged world leaders meeting in Italy to intensify the fight against global warming, legislation to cut U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases suffered a delay in the Senate on Thursday.
The Group of Eight rich nations and the G5 of emerging economies were among 40 nations and organizations represented at a three-day summit to discuss recession, climate change, trade and food security. Below is a comparison between aims going in to the meeting and the results achieved. EMISSIONS CUTS
Following are comments at a news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. OBAMA "While we don't expect to solve this problem in one meeting or one summit. I believe we made some important strides forward as we move toward Copenhagen.
As the G8 and G5 today broke the logjam on the Doha talks and agreed to refrain from competitive devaluation of currencies, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has struck notes of caution in his conversations with world leaders here, telling them that the situation is
PRESIDENT Barack Obama and his G-8 summit partners held tense discussions on Thursday about how both rich and emerging nations can live up to new clean climate goals adopted by leading industrialised nations.
Atmospheric aerosols (a mixture of solid or liquid particles suspended in the air medium) are short-lived, with a residence time of about a week in the lower troposphere. Unlike the principal greenhouse gases, aerosols are more concentrated in the source regions and exhibit strong spatial and temporal variations.
