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
canada's greenhouse gas emissions, in 1998, were 19 per cent more than the target set under the Kyoto Protocol, the country's environment ministry has revealed. The ministry says that
Indian industries use more energy than necessary. But there are ways to conserve
The last time there was a major push for renewable energy alternatives to polluting fossil fuels was in the aftermath of 1970s oil shock. And then, everyone conveniently relegated the issue to the back burner. With oil prices spiralling through the roof i
Bolstering the theory that iron is a vital -and often missing - link binding the atmosphere, oceans and climate, scientists have found that dispersing small amounts of the metal in biologically
Due to constantly decreasing water level in and around Delhi, City government on Monday decided that storage of water would be mandatory in all government buildings.The decision to this effect was
The hole that opens in the ozone layer over Antarcticaeach southern spring formed earlier and grew bigger this year than at any time since satelliteshave been monitoring the polar atmosphere,
But even here, on Ellesmere Island, North America's northernmost tip, the inhabitants think they can see hints of climate change. Glaciers are receding. Winter rains are blamed for declining
The heat is on for governments to agree on action at a major climate change conference in the Netherlands next month to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Unless countries resolve
An industrial consortium has launched a major research project on ways to capture carbon dioxide emissions at electric power plants and other sources to prevent their buildup to the atmosphere. The
Environmental ministers from the leading industrialized nations ended a conference in Japan without agreeing on a deadline for ratifying a key agreement on global warming. Ministers from the Group of
