State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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SOIL SANITY
Cultivable lands in southern Bangladesh have been badly affected by saline water from the Bay of Bengal. Seawater and river water due to unplanned construction of embankments, reports the
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Mangroves' rescue act
Scientists stress that conserving mangroves will provide an important buffer to save coastal regions from the ravages of sea level rise due to global warming
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Pawns in the game
The adverse effects of climate change will be felt more in the South than the North. If preference for fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas is not curbed, developing nations will have to bear the
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That E word again
Most Northern groups that dominate the civil society opinion making process within the climate convention have consistently ignored Southern demands for equity
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Man's ancestor did not mingle with Neanderthal cousin
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
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Coal ban at Huntly' at a price
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
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Danish emission trading to start in January 2001
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
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Australia greenhouse emissions overshooting target
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
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Environment ministers say progress made of greenhouse gas plan but Quebec walks out of meeting
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
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UK says emission trade to meet 3-11% Kyoto target
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