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
Most Northern groups that dominate the civil society opinion making process within the climate convention have consistently ignored Southern demands for equity
Modern humans are not descended from Neanderthals but co-existed with them about 40,000 years ago, scientists have said. An analysis of DNA extracted from the ribs of a 29,000 year-old Neanderthal
Banning coal fired generation at Huntly power station would significantly lower New Zealand's green house gas emissions-but at a price, a report to the Government says. Electricity prices could rise
Denmark's Ministry of Energy and Environment said domestic trading in carbon dioxide emission quotas will start in 2001 and added it hoped its Nordic neighbours and other European countries would
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions would overshoot Kyoto commitment levels by 10 to 12 percentage points on current estimates, Australian Greenhouse Office chief executive Gwen Andrews
Federal Environment Minister David Anderson and most of his provincial counterparts emerged from a meeting insisting that Canada is on schedule to meet its international commitment to cut greenhouse
A planned UK greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme could account for up to 11 per cent of Britain's carbon reduction targets by 2010, a government official said. But in the worst case it could
India and US signed a joint declaration on energy efficiency and environment protection during President Clinton's visit last week. A key element of this declaration is the intent to push forward the
The earth's ice cover is melting in more places and at higher rates than at any time since record keeping began. According to a report compiled by Lisa Nastny of the Washington-based Worldwatch
Union minister for environment and forests T R Balu has emphasised the need for transfer of financial resources and technology to developing countries for controlling greenhouse gases under the
