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
Mumbai To tackle the issue of global warming, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will soon begin a baseline survey in 11 sectors that produce greenhouse gas. The effort of the civic administration is to tackle efficiently the global warming issues in the city and earn carbon credits in the bargain.
Rich and poor countries criticized a first draft text of a new United Nations climate treaty Monday but grudgingly accepted it as the basis for six months of arduous negotiations.
population." Experts studying images taken from space were initially baffled by reddish-brown splodges on the ice. "It turned out they were the feces, guano stains, of the emperors," Trathan said. "There's a really good contrast between the dark poo stains and the ice." Scientists widened the search for the tell-tale blots to 90 percent of the Antarctic coastline and found 38 colonies.
The U.S. climate change bill making its way through Congress is the best legislative bet to help the country take the lead in tackling global warming on the world stage, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Monday.
During one of the many meetings preceding the Copenhagen round of talks scheduled to take place in December, the developed countries have tentatively agreed on a plan to collectively raise $100 billion per year in order to provide financial support to the poor and developing nations as they try to make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy sources.
The United States may soon take the mantle as the global leader on climate change in part because of its strong research and development on energy, said oil historian and analyst Daniel Yergin.
Billions of people are already affected or are at extreme risk now, due to the effects of global warming such as floods The Guardian
Unless the impact of agriculture is taken into account, the plans to cut global warming will come a cropper Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 2, 2009, 0:54 IST
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ARTHUR MAX June 1: The 2,700 pigs on the farm that John Horrevorts manages yield more than ham and bacon. A biogas plant makes enough electricity from their waste to run the farm and feeds extra wattage into the Dutch national grid. He even gets bonus payments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
