Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
Arctic peoples aim to team up with tropical islanders in a campaign against global warming, arguing that polar bears and palm-fringed beaches stand to suffer most. The proposed alliance between some
Fighting global warming will get tougher once the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012 and the world must try to get Washington involved in the long term, the head of the UN Environment Programme said. Klaus
Global warming is leading to an increased incidence of high-cost storms and floods across the globe, Insurance Australia Group chief executive Michael Hawker warned. "Sea temperatures have been
Two leaders of the U.S.'s biggest public pension fund are calling on the fund to use its financial muscle to pressure the auto industry to accept California's pending restrictions on global warming
For decades most Asian business leaders have dismissed concerns about the global environment as a western preoccupation of no importance for profits or prestige.
Space for Waste: Planning for the Informal Recycling Sector
A malaria vaccine shows encouraging results in trials
This month, even as the Russian cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol and sent it on to parliament for ratification, the price of oil crossed US $50 per barrel a 60 per cent increase in the price of
The European Council (EC) has decided to reduce the emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases (f-gases), agreeing to phase out some of them completely. f-gases, used in refrigeration, air
With the re-election of President Bush, state governments and big business will likely be the biggest forces over the next four years to craft new policies and develop innovative technologies aimed
