State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration across the Mid-Pleistocene transition
The dominant period of Pleistocene glacial cycles changed during the mid-Pleistocene from 40,000 years to 100,000 years, for as yet unknown reasons.
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Gazprom and Dow Chemical Expand Emissions Alliance
Gazprom, the energy company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dow Chemical Company to expand trading in carbon dioxide emission credits intended to slow climate change, a business that is a growing sideline for the Russian company.
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Joint efforts a must to face climate change
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina emphasised joint efforts of the Southeast Asian nations for eradicating poverty through accelerating economic development and facing the challenges stemming from global climate change.
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Bluenext Edges Towards China Emissions Exchange
French emissions exchange BlueNext has taken its first step toward a carbon trading platform in China with a deal to offer its clients a database of Chinese carbon-cutting projects, its chairman said on Thursday.
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EU Leaders Agree Climate Funding Principles
The European Union agreed the basis of its financial contribution to a global climate change deal on Thursday, but environmentalists said more was needed to ensure success at global talks in Copenhagen in December.
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Carbon capture strategy
CCS is the marketing spiel to make coal look eco-friendly CCS is the marketing spiel to make coal look eco-friendly, but no one
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Britain Faces Severe Warming By 2080s: Study
Climate change could lead to a rise in average summer temperatures in parts of Britain that is nearly double the level which the European Union and others say is dangerous, a study said on Thursday.
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Borneo Project Aims To Yield Lessons On Saving Forests
Within a vast deforested area on Borneo island, Australia and Indonesia hope to turn an ecological disaster into a global lesson on how to help local communities save tropical forests and fight climate change.
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Climate Change Threatens To Knock Crop Yields
Rapid rises in temperatures worldwide may overwhelm farmers' efforts to keep up, say experts who want funds to breed new crops and freeze heat-resistant strains bred over past centuries. A Stanford University study to be published on Friday estimates that African growing seasons for the continent's staple foods -- maize, millet and sorghum -- will be hotter in nine out of 10 years by 2050.
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Emission trading rights and India (Editorial)
By combining participation in a global regime of tradable emission rights with faster energy efficiency improvement, India not only reaps a handsome climate policy dividend, but also helps mitigate global warming, says Vijay P Ojha