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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Curbing carbon dioxide
The pressure on President George W.Bush to abandon his irresponsibly passive approach to global warming was ratcheted up last week. The attorneys general of seven north-eastern states announced their
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Impure water: violators go scott free
Bottled water in the Andhra Pradesh state must be the 'purest' because not a single case has ended up in conviction though the authorities have launched prosecution against more than 90 percent of
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Seven states sue Bush for global warming
Seven states in the US have filed a joint lawsuit against the Bush administration for its alleged neglect in regulating carbon dioxide emissions, the states said in a statement. "While individual
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Gippsland site tops toxic dump list
The Australian State Government appears to have abandoned its search for a new hazardous waste site near Melbourne and is to embark on a series of detailed studies of the environmentally sensitive
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Global warming endangers Amazon
warming as levels of carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere. "This is a simplified picture," Tom Wigley of the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research told the AAAS. "If we warm the world
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Firms fail to count cost of global warming
Most of the world's top 500 companies are failing to take action to deal with the risks of global warming, according to research on the corporate impact of climate change. Some companies in the heavy
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Hot potato
At the beginning of 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released, as the main result of its massive Third Assessment Review, a set of figures that have become the most-cities
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Voluntarism won't work
In a transparent bit of salesmanship that should not be mistaken for a serious policy, the Bush administration announced that it had persuaded several major industries to make voluntary reductions in
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Carbon trading exchange in Sri Lanka
sri lanka is all set to introduce a legislation to facilitate the country's first carbon trading exchange programme. The programme aims to include projects that reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions
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EU to certify buildings for energy efficiency from 2006
As per a new directive, the eu will certify buildings for energy efficiency from 2006 onwards. The European Climate Change Programme, established in 2000 to meet Kyoto Protocol targets, has