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
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and private sector companies are taking the initiative in formulating plans for converting greenhouse-gas emissions rights into financial instruments ahead of the
The White House was preparing to issue a revised 10-year global warming research plan that sets five goals, chief among them identifying
Seven months after with a promising to come forward with a plan to look into the causes of global warming, the Bush administration released a comprehensive proposal for 13 federal agencies to
The European Union emissions trading directive has been adopted and finalised by the European Council, formally creating the largest emissions trading scheme in the world.Company emissions can now be
With the U.S. having abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty's fate now hinges on Russia, which is dragging its feet in what some see as an attempt to extract greater economic rewards
HIV positive haemophiliacs sue US pharma giants
The latest meeting on climate change did not bring the Kyoto Protocol any closer to being implemented. The protocol, established in 1997, asks industrialised countries to cut emissions of
In an indication of how successfully the US is undermining an internationally-negotiated agreement on checking climate change, visiting US assistant secretary of state John Turner said that his
<p>Extreme climate events such as aridity, drought, flood, cyclone and stormy rainfall are expected to leave an impact on human society. They are also expected to generate widespread response to adapt and mitigate the sufferings associated with these extremes.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_085_01_0046_0059_0.pdf" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
Most of the nation's largest carbon dioxide emitting companies are failing to assess, disclose and address the financial risks posed by climate change, according to a new study of 20 of the world's
