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
Australia will suffer economic pain as it attempts to meet greenhouse targets, the nation's environment ambassador told a parliamentary committee reviewing the Kyoto Protocol. Dr Ralph Hillman said
Australian scientists, looking for ways to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, have dumped 10 tonnes of iron in the ocean off Antartica. The iron caused giant blooms of marine
The Canadian cabinet has approved a $500-million plan to combat global warming that goes one-third of the way to meeting the emissions-reduction targets it agreed to in Kyoto, Japan, three years
Several Republican senators expressed strong concerns that talks to flesh out details of a global-warming treaty signed by the administration in 118 would never produce a document that the senate
As cities grow, they become hotter, more humid and - in summer - less tolerable as places to live and to work. Although meteorologists have recognised the "urban heat island" phenomenon for decades,
Several U.S. companies are taking concerns about global climate change seriously and launching voluntary programs to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released
A global warming pact reached by a U.N. conference will have significant but varied economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets, Australia's Bureau of
A global warming pact reached by a UN conference will have significant but varied economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets, Australia's Bureau of
PCB-contaminated waste from U.S. military bases in Japan will be moved from Japan to Wake Island in the central Pacific by May 18 until a final decision on how to dispose of the waste is made, the
The World Bank and the Canadian Government are to set up a Can$20 million (US $14 million) trust fund to help developing countries reduce the release of persistent organic pollutants
