In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
U.S. wavering on climate commitment could undermine action to save the planet, the director of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said on the sidelines of a conference on Monday. Preserving the Greenland ice cap was the defining action needed to prevent several meters of sea level rise and …
The European Union and the United States are holding talks on forging a pact with OECD countries and China to eliminate duties on green goods as part of incentives to Beijing in a potential global climate deal. EU diplomats told Reuters that under a plan being discussed by Brussels and …
President Obama will announce Friday that the once elite club of rich industrial nations known as the Group of 7 will be permanently replaced as a global forum for economic policy by the much broader Group of 20 that includes China, Brazil, India and other fast-growing developing countries, administration officials …
World leaders gathered here for a global summit meeting on climate change made modest proposals on Tuesday for combating the problem, underscoring the way domestic political battles still trump what United Nations officials had hoped would be a sense of global urgency. The negotiations for a new international agreement to …
WHAT might a truly fair and effective solution to climate change look like? One answer to that question has just been released and it makes for disturbing reading. For one thing, the scale and speed of emissions cuts required by developed nations is far greater than the commitments governments are …
Major developing nations have announced steps over the past year to curb their growing greenhouse emissions as the world tries to negotiate a broader, and tougher, U.N. pact to slow the pace of climate change. Rich nations have demanded China, India, Brazil and others to set binding emissions reduction targets …
Rio De Janeiro: Cars running on sugarcane ethanol can produce as many harmful pollutants as those using ordinary petrol (gasoline), according a study published by Brazil
Experts from 18 countries have arrived in India to participate in the first meeting of the working group of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which gets underway in Delhi on Wednesday. The two-day meeting is part of international consultations aimed at developing a standardised methodological framework for …
Brazil's prospects of becoming a leading oil producer increased yesterday when it emerged that a giant offshore field could be double the size of BP's discovery last week in the Gulf of Mexico. Petrobras, the national oil company, reported that the Guar
Biofuels investor Clean Energy Brazil has sold its stake in a Brazilian sugar mill for much less than its initial investment after the plant's debt pile proved too much of a burden in a tough ethanol market. Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of cane-based ethanol, used as …
The current issue of the UGEC Viewpoints was conceptualized at the end of the 7th Open Meeting of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change which was held in Bonn, Germany between April 26-30. The conference was deemed a great success with nearly 1,000 participants including researchers, NGOs, …
Lack of international recognition of fundamentals of Brazilian history has arguably been a key factor leading to a clash of concepts of international responsibilities and national rights which has inhibited past conservation efforts in respect of Brazil
The Greenpeace India guide to GM-free food that gives consumers an insight into the positions of food brands, on the use of genetically modified ingredients. Has categorized 17 food companies in India into 'red list' & 'green list' based on their policy on the use of GM ingredients. Consumers and …
"The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to bomb all the roads." That might sound like an eco-terrorist's threat, but they're actually the words of Eneas Salati, one of Brazil's most respected scientists. Thomas Lovejoy, a leading American biologist, is equally emphatic: "Roads are the seeds of …
