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
U.S. environment chief Christine Todd Whitman defended Washington's commitment to fighting global warming yesterday, despite ending its support for the Kyoto treaty, which Canada insisted is not dead
The rejection by the United States of the 1997 Kyoto pact on greenhouse gas cuts was very disappointing, a top official from a global panel on climate change said yesterday. But Tomihiro Taniguchi,
The European Union officials are both alarmed and perplexed with the Bush administration's decision to reject and abandon the Kyoto treaty, designed to combat global warming. The U.S. accounts for
No, this is not a column on global warming, or about the needs of developing economies to have more quota for carbon emissions. Nor are we going to discuss the vulnerability of the Indian economy to
There was a sharp reaction here to the Bush administration's decision to pull out of the Kyoto treaty on climate change with observers seeing it as the British Government's first real taste of
US President George W.Bush walked into a hail of protest on Thursday after ditching the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at staving off global warning, with Pacific islands warning rising seas could wipe them
The tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati warned yesterday it could "drown" if the world did not act to halt global warming. A collection of low-lying atolls in the immensity of the South Pacific,
As the new U.S. administration rejects the Kyoto global pollution pact, Europe must decide whether to rip up the treaty it fought so hard for or forge ahead without the world's biggest polluter. The
The US Department of Energy predicted on Wednesday that developing countries would be mainly responsible for a nearly 70 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions between 1999 and 2020. The
Australia has vowed to try to persuade the United States to continue negotiations on global warming after Washington effectively abandoned the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at curbing greenhouse gas
