Europe, not U.S., blocking climate accord: Anderson
European intransigence, and not U.S. President George W. Bush, is behind the "fallen down" Kyoto accord on reducing greenhouse gases, Canada's Environment Minister David Anderson said Thursday.
European intransigence, and not U.S. President George W. Bush, is behind the "fallen down" Kyoto accord on reducing greenhouse gases, Canada's Environment Minister David Anderson said Thursday.
Japan on Wednesday began direct communication with the United States over Washington's decision to abandon the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a treaty aimed at curbing global warming. Foreign Minister Yohei
The Bush Administration has turned down a European request that it reconsider a decision seen as likely to doom the international treaty on global warming known as the Kyoto accord.
The Bush administration has turned aside pleas from European Union officials to reconsider its decision to abandon a global warming agreement and says it will move ahead to develop alternative
Japan said that it will send a mission to the United States to try to persuade the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide to reverse its decision to reject an international treaty on global
Petroleum minister Ram Naik today criticised the Delhi government for the ongoing transport crisis saying the state government had failed to make a realistic demand assessment of compressed natural
How many commuters have noticed the bursts of pink cockscomb along the Panvel-Kurla rail run during the monsoon, or the purple railway glory? How many of those spilling our of Churchgate station or
The Delhi Chief Minister, Ms. Sheila Dikshit, today announced the decision to set up a high-power Environmental Protection Board to prepare an environmental development plan for Delhi with particular
A German-led consortium won a major contract to build the underground portion of a light-rail system in India's sprawling capital city of Delhi, which is currently gripped by a bus crisis that
The move by U.S. President, Mr. George W. Bush, to withdraw from a global treaty on climate change could prompt greater attention to environmental issues, the United Nations Secretary-General said on
The majority of one by which the US Supreme Court stopped the recount of presidential votes in Florida may well prove to have repercussions for the world's environment.
Upset by the silence of the Government on the American refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today said the U.S. should be declared a rogue nation "for
Australian Prime Minister John Howard yesterday dismissed reports his conservative government was set to follow the United States in abandoning the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas reductions. Howard
The Bush administration turned down a European request today that it reconsider a decision seen as likely to doom the international treaty on global warming known as the Kyoto accord. In meetings
European Commission President Romano Prodi said Thursday the European Union intended to go ahead with the Kyoto agreement against global warming-with or without the United
While changes in climate can contribute to some disease outbreaks, it is not yet possible to determine in global warming causes disease to spread, a panel of independent US scientists has
A delegation from the European Commission was expected to reaffirm the EU's commitment to press ahead with plans for a new round of climate talks in Bonn in July in talks with the Bush
The Bush Administration rejected a personal plea from European officials to reconsider its abandonment of the Kyoto treaty on global warming. The rebuff is the latest in a series of policy clashes
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has singled out by proclaiming its "understanding" of President George W. Bush's decision to abandon the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.
The European Union today embarked on a diplomatic offensive to persuade the Bush administration not to reject the Kyoto treaty on global warming, to which the U.S. contributes between 25 and 40 per