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
Global warming feeds fire potential : Global warming may greatly accelerate the fire cycle in the desert ecosystem of North America, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Elevated
Deposits of methane gas so large they are capable of influencing the greenhouse effect and possibly sinking ships have been discovered by Dutch scientists in submarine lakes and mud volcanoes under
The European Union agreed yesterday to form a united front in demanding tough rules for compliance with a global agreement to cut greenhouse gases in high-level international talks that start next
The European employers' federation said on Monday governments should not ratify an international agreement to tackle climate change before the rules on how it will work are clarified. Unice, a
Australia will not meet its Kyoto target to reduce greenhouse emissions given the Federal Government's environmental efforts, a Senate committee report said yesterday.The report comes as the
A top environmental agency does not want "carbon sinks", where forests absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, endorsed under a UN convention on climate change.Saksit Tridech, secretary-general of the
Carbon dioxide emissions cannot be drastically reduced quickly enough to meet the objectives of the protocol if protracted negotiations were to delay its adoption until just before the goal of
Recent extreme weather around the globe may have reminded people of the need to stem climate change. But it is proving very hard to get agreement on filling in the many gaps in the 1997 Kyoto
A row has broken out between environment groups and the Howard Government over its stance on developing countries and the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Federal Environment
The US and much of Latin America have struck a landmark deal to push for full-scale trading to greenhouse gas emissions as a solution to global warming. The alliance between the developed and the
