State of the climate in Asia 2023
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-hit region from weather, climate and water-related hazards in 2023. Floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses, whilst
Climate Change
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Powerful new greenhouse gas on the rise
Scientists have found rising concentrations of a newly identified gas in the air that traps heat more effectively than all other known greenhouse gases, the dozens of compounds released by industry
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Government announces 30 million for UK emissions trading scheme
The Government has announced a
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The stage is set for US to resume leadership of global climate stabilisation
The Global Climate Coalition (GCC), the organisation of business trade organisations which undermined US leadership in Kyoto, is no longer a dominant player in the global climate debate, says a
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Field trials on gas emissions
Scientists have developed a new way of tackling global warming - by feeding cattle a daily dose of bacteria to stop them belching out methane as they graze.Scientists had tried to tackle the problem
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Green tax eyed to meet Kyoto Protocol
The government of Japan is considering an environment tax to help it cut greenhouse gas emissions under a 1997 protocol, according to a draft version of measures that are to form the mainstay of a
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Developed nations urged to protect coastal states
Environment experts and journalists called upon the developed nations, especially USA, Japan and European Union to sign immediately Kyoto Protocol to help enforce it amd mitigate the adverse impacts
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U.S. says Kyoto too tough without emissions trade
The chief U.S. negotiator on climate change said that the United States was unlikely to meet its target to slash greenhouse gas emissions as laid down in Kyoto in 1997 without relying heavily on
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NASA gauges melting of Greenland Ice
The massive Greenland Ice Sheet-which contains nearly 10 percent of the all the frozen water on Earth-is melting at a rate of about 12 cubic miles per year, accounting for 7 percent of sea-level rise
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Bovine burp map helps to help track greenhouse emissions
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, (CSIRO), has come up with a novel way of tracking emissions of the greenhouse gas, methane; a map detailing the level of cow
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Study
Greenland ice cap is melting : A warming climate is melting more than 50 billion tons of water a year from the Greenland ice sheet, adding to a 9-inch global rise in sea level over the last century