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
Once fallacious statement one often hears in political as well as in academic discussions is that welfare of the people is possible without changing the natural environment for the worse. The
Before leaving for Europe where his environmental policies have come under attack, U.S. President George W. Bush announced new initiatives to study the rise in the Earth's temperature. He reasserted
In the uproar surronding his reunciation of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, President George W. Bush said he would ask a cabinet level group to come up with new U.S. proposals to address
President George W. Bush plans to tell European allies that he wants to spend millions of dollars on research into the causes of global warming and the technologies to reduce it, but he will not back
U.S. and European companies have been the main players in shaping the global trade in carbon-dioxide emissions rights. But now Japanese companies are starting to make their presence known as well.
About 300 people demonstrated through the crowded streets of Shibuya and Harajuku in central Tokyo on Saturday to urge the Japanese government to stick to the floundering 1997 Kyoto Protocol on
Terrestrial scientists planning to sprout genetically altered weeds on Mars hope to take part in a $300 million mission to the red planet that could pave the way for human colonization. The plants,
With a new scientific report in hand that affirms the reality of global warming, the Bush White House has readily acknowledged that climate change is a problem, but he has given little clue as to
A National Academy of Sciences report reaffirming the threat of global warming, and declaring fearlessly that human activity is largely responsible for it, virtually requires President George W. Bush
Its five glaciers, 13 peaks and miles of meadows have been shielded from human gaze and tough for the last 19 years. Now, in a controversial decision, the Uttaranchal Government has decided to throw
