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
And now for a wild prediction. Within 12 months President Bush, vice president Dick Cheney and all their backers in the oil industry will be begging--begging--to revive the Kyoto Protocol on climate
President Bush now has "a basis of sound science on which decisions can be made" on global warming, his spokesman said Thursday, a day after the White House got a report concluding the phenomenon is
President George W. Bush will present proposals on controlling global warming to European leaders in a bid to soothe anger over his abrupt rejection in March of the 1997 Kyoto accord on climate
The Tamil Nadu State Government should take immediate steps to execute the Gulf of Mannar biosphere reserve preservation project, Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, said today. For
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee made it clear on World Environment Day that owners of old taxis and buses would have to replace their engines or switch to liquefied petroleum gas,
Italy's outgoing centre-left government will approve in full a European Union draft declaration backing the 1997 Kyoto protocol on global warming, Environment Minister Willer Bordon said this week.
Australia's glaciers are melting. In the land of outback deserts this is not as strange as it sounds. Scientists say the shrinking of Australia's little-known glaciers on remote, sub-Antarctic Heard
The West Bengal government will soon come out with its first biotechnology policy, laying emphasis on revenue generation from the agriculture and food processing industries. A vision committee
"Banjar dharti kare pukar, vriksha laga karo shrinagar"--this was just a slogan a few years back, a cry of the barren land simply unheard by people in general. For watershed development was supposed
Denmark's parliament on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the government to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Treaty on global warming by a sizeable majority. In the 179-seat house, 88 voted for recommending that
