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
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said yesterday he welcomed a visit by European Union delegates who are seeking to shore up support for the Kyoto climate treaty. The European Union (EU)
Global warming shrinking the Arctic icecap is making life harsher for Inuit and polar bears and might paradoxically chill Europe by shutting off a warm ocean current. Inhabitants of the Arctic say
Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the Bush Administration considers the Kyoto Protocol on global warming to be a "dead letter" but the Kyoto process itself is not dead. Powell, interviewed
Prime Minister Goran Persson of Sweden, which currently holds the European Union's rotating presidency, on Saturday urged Japan to take a resolute stand toward ratifying the Kyoto Protocol aimed at
This prospects for operationalising the Kyoto Protocol on climate change remain as dim as they were prior to the U.S. President, Mr. George Bush's recent meetings with the heads of government of the
The best that can be said about US European Union discussions last week on global warming is that both sides had a chance to air their views. President George W. Bush insisted that the Kyoto Protocol
The European Union sought to underline its claim to "green" credentials at the summit Gothenburg by promising rapid ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gas emissions and mapping
President George W. Bush's overseas trip has done nothing to narrow the gap between his administration and Europe on global warming. For their part, the Europeans accept the over-whelming scientific
Proposals put forward by U.S. President W. Bush on combating global warming would set efforts to grapple with this environmental challenge back by 10 years. Some of the measures Bush announced before
A pro-Narmada dam non-political and non-government organisation to counter the campaign by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) was launched in Gujarat under the banner 'Narmada Samarthan'. Talking to
