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
Canada will not ratify the Kyoto protocol on global warming until aspects of the treaty are clarified, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said this week. A Canadian decision against ratification would be a
US greenhouse gas emissions increased at a faster rate during 1999-2000 than the average annual rate throughout the 1990s, according to the latest official US figures under the Framework Convention
With the US refusing to implement even the diluted version of the Kyoto Protocol on reduction in ecologically harmful emissions, the task of averting an imminent change in global climate has become
According to a report released at the UN climate change talks by the Untied Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), global warming could reduce harvests of staple crops like rice, maize and wheat in
Electricity retailers will be fined if they fail to meet greenhouse emission benchmarks over the next five years, the New South Wales state government announced. "This decision will add little or no
Another large iceberg has newly calved from the Ross Ice Shelf, the National Ice Center has confirmed. Iceberg C-18 is the latest in a series of bergs to break away from the warming Antarctic ice
The Energy Department asked for public comments this week on ways to improve its voluntary reporting program to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for warming the atmosphere. The
More doubt was cast on Canada's wavering commitment to the Kyoto Protocol to tackle global warming with the release of a letter from Industry Minister Allan Rock stating that Ottawa should develop
Royal Dutch/Shell and Elsam, Denmark's largest electricity generator, have swapped carbon pollution permits, establishing the first trading link between the only two government backed emission
The European Union is committed to reducing the pollution blamed for causing global warming, so why is it pumping vast subsidies into fossil fuels such as coal and diesel which are the main sources
