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 Prime Minister John Howard yesterday dismissed reports his conservative government was set to follow the United States in abandoning the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas reductions. Howard
The Bush administration turned down a European request today that it reconsider a decision seen as likely to doom the international treaty on global warming known as the Kyoto accord. In meetings
European Commission President Romano Prodi said Thursday the European Union intended to go ahead with the Kyoto agreement against global warming-with or without the United
While changes in climate can contribute to some disease outbreaks, it is not yet possible to determine in global warming causes disease to spread, a panel of independent US scientists has
A delegation from the European Commission was expected to reaffirm the EU's commitment to press ahead with plans for a new round of climate talks in Bonn in July in talks with the Bush
The Bush Administration rejected a personal plea from European officials to reconsider its abandonment of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. The rebuff is the latest in a series of policy clashes
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has singled out by proclaiming its "understanding" of President George W. Bush's decision to abandon the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.
The European Union today embarked on a diplomatic offensive to persuade the Bush administration not to reject the Kyoto treaty on global warming, to which the U.S. contributes between 25 and 40 per
Greenpeace activists on Monday ended their occupation of a US oil rig off Scotland--the first major protest by the group since President George W.Bush pulled out of the Kyoto
Ten prominent figures ranging from ex-Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to actor Harrison Ford have written an open letter to US President George WW. Bush urging him to develop a plan to cut
