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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Papers see Bonn as political win, environment loss
European newspapers hailed the hard-fought compromise on the Kyoto climate accord as a political victory over the United States, but questioned how much environmental value the new deal would have.
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Partial success
The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change has been saved, but only just. It has been agreed that there will be no cap on the role of carbon sinks, which will enable countries with large forest covers to
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New climate accord leaves U.S. out in cold
The agreement struck in Bonn by environmental ministers from Europe, Japan, Canada and Australian has left President George W. Bush more isolated than ever on the issue of global warming, putting him
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Isolated on warming
A wallflower at what might have been its own victory party, the United States could only watch as 178 countries agreed on a deal which salvages the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and commits the rest of the
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Winners and losers wait for fog to clear around Kyoto
The deal reached in Bonn to rescue the Kyoto Protocol on climate might have set up some countries as future winners and others as losers. But it is not clear which is which. In the short term, US
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Global warming after Kyoto
As political fudges go, the deal struck on the Kyoto Protocol was not bad-and certainly better than a breakdown in negotiations. Industrialised countries achieved their main aims. European nations
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Energy Department studies way to capture heat-trapping emissions
The private sector has responded enthusiastically to a U.S. initiative that will study ways to capture and store carbon dioxide--one of the most potent greenhouse gases that causes global warming.
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Leaders hail Kyoto rescue deal
An historic agreement to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming was concluded by 178 countries. It is the first international treaty to restrain energy
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No US plan on Kyoto
The US has said that President George W Bush had made no commitment to proposing an alternative by the autumn to the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty which it rejects. The White House on Sunday disputed
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Kyoto Protocol rescued by agreement in Bonn
The Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that is intended to control global warming, was rescued this morning from an impasse that has