A price on carbon
Negotiators from 165 countries have agreed on rules for implementing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls on about 40 industralised nations to limit carbon emissions or cut them to below-1990 levels.
Negotiators from 165 countries have agreed on rules for implementing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls on about 40 industralised nations to limit carbon emissions or cut them to below-1990 levels.
After all-night talks at the end of the COP7 conference in Marrakech, delegates from 171 governments have now finalised the "rulebook" for the Kyoto Protocol.
In what as been hailed as the most comprehensive study of its kind ever, 16 of the UK's biggest government and private conservation groups have assessed the future of 50 species under current
How environment friendly is biodegradable plastic? The debate rages
A common Great Plains prairie plant, the partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata), could face severe reduction in numbers if climate conditions in the Midwest, USA, change to the extremes predicted
Polythene culture in Puri is driving the palm leaf packets out of use
What the government and the scientific community need to do
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that its climate change programs have significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.
A new study reports that the Earth's forests and other land-based ecosystems absorbed all of the carbon released by deforestation plus another 1,400 million tons emitted by fossil fuel burning during
Illegal abstraction and drilling of ground water continues undeterred in Gurgaon. This is despite of the fact that Gurgaon and its adjoining industrial areas were declared as notified are for the
If it was power yesterday, it is water today. Kudos to the Andhra Pradesh Government for its initiatives on water sector reforms, particularly its decision to set up an independent water supply
All night negotiations at the United Nations conference on climate change ended in a compromise package, hailed by all parties as paving the way for ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce
Officials from more than 160 countries haggled over the fine print of the Kyoto pact to limit global warming, seeking a deal to bring the landmark treaty into force hopefully by next year : A
The global warming treaty conducted this weekend in Morocco by 160 countries was an important victory for European and environmental leaders in rallying the international community behind a document
Gujarat Chief Minister Modi is likely to seek an assurance from his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Dijvijay Singh that MP would complete the rehabilitation of hundreds of Narmada dam oustees before
The incident of a Maruti van running on a domestic. LPG cooking gas cylinder catching fire near Malviya Nagar here on Friday has once again raised the issue of large-scale proliferation of such
Environment and energy ministers of a number of countries reached an agreement on the final draft of Kyoto pact to limit global warming, paving the way for its implementation next year, delegates
International delegates agreed on Saturday to the first-ever rules aimed at stopping global warming - a pact the United States, the world's biggest polluter, has rejected. "This is the first
World environment and energy ministers struck a last-minute deal on Saturday on the details of the landmark Kyoto pact to limit global warming, paving the way for its implementation next year.
The head of the Russian Delegation at UN talks on "climate change" on Saturday said a deal reached on the legal language of the 1997 Kyoto pact should make it possible for Russia to ratify it. This