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 serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The European Union's Court of First Instance, the second-highest court in the union, has rejected Poland's request for a temporary suspension of a cut in its co2 emission quota, imposed by the European Commission. Poland had filed a lawsuit against the commission's decision to cut a quota proposed by the …
London Mayor Ken Livingstone's Climate Change Action Plan, framed in April 2007, says: "More widespread carbon pricing will be essential to incentivize demand for low-carbon vehicles and fuels, and to drive innovation in further developing these technologies.' The plans for the congestion charge to be weighted according to carbon emissions …
Ata-Ul-Haq is CEO of Green Technology Environmental Corporation, which set up Pakistan's first mega composting plant in Lahore in 2006. He tells Arnab Pratim Dutta that the model adopted for the plant can be replicated across South Asia Why a composting plant for Lahore? Getting this plant up and running …
It seems that industry in Europe cannot count on the European Commission as far as co2 emissions are concerned. The commission has ruled that in 2008-2012, the next phase of the carbon trading scheme, the industry will have to emit 10 per cent less than what national governments had asked …
More than 100 mayors of us cities congregated at Seattle on November 1-2 as part of a climate protection campaign. They sought an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions by 2050, but said that they cannot do it alone. "We are showing what is possible in light …
In 2006, Nicholas Stern former chief economist, World Bank and advisor to the UK government, wrote about the economic threat from climate change in the Stern Report. He veers round to an uneasy balance between consumerism and and climate imperatives in a conversation with Pradip Saha and Mario D Souza …
the growing demand for biofuels could lead to a shortage of food. Studies show biofuel plantations will eat up cropland, and trigger food and water crisis in many parts of the globe, especially in India and China. There is also evidence to show biofuels will not help in carbon emission …
Greenpeace activists took over the Kingsnorth power station in Kent, the UK, on October 8, in a protest aimed at stopping Prime Minister Gordon Brown from approving the country's first coal plant in over three decades. German energy giant E ON has proposed to build a coal-fired power plant at …
One of the largest power utilities in the US, American Electric Power, has agreed to spend US $4.6 billion to reduce harmful emissions from its 16 coal-fired power plants. The settlement, which was reached after eight years of legal battle over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, is the …
The Netherlands' Fortis Bank has won a bid to emit carbon dioxide in an auction that marks a new phase in the global "carbon market'. The bank paid more than euros 13 million (US $18 million) for the rights to emit 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is the first …
Several leading companies in the uk are now eager to please environmentally conscious consumers. Nine more companies have signed up for a trial to use a draft carbon footprint standard, currently being developed by Carbon Trust, an independent state-funded body, in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural …
The International Civil Aviation Organization recently adopted a programme to counter effects of global warming in the aviation industry. It, however, rejected eu proposals to cut carbon emissions made by the industry. After a 10-day-long meeting, on September 28 in Montreal, Canada, the majority of the delegates at the un …
US President George Bush played host to a party of the top polluters of the world called to discuss climate change. He exhorted his guests that the world needed to act and called for a "new approach" to reduce emissions. But if you think that he has changed his mind …
The Kyoto Protocol is a symbolically important expression of governments' concern about climate change. But as an instrument for achieving emissions reductions, it has failed1. It has produced no demonstrable reductions in emissions or even in anticipated emissions growth. And it pays no more than token attention to the needs …
Small cars have had it good for quite a while, but the market could undergo a drastic transformation with the advent of ultra-cheap, small cars led by the Tatas' Rs 1 lakh model. The Tata car, the stuff of dreams millions of potential vehicle owners haven't yet dared to dream, …
us President George W Bush has announced a climate meeting for the end of September. The announcement comes at a time when there is already a un-led initiative to hammer out an agreement on emission targets after the expiry of Kyoto Protocol, and must been seen as another instance of …
german Chancellor Angela Merkel's backing for allocating emissions budgets on a per capita basis will come as sweet music to leaders of the developing world. This has been one of their key demands in climate change negotiations, one that the developed world has almost unanimously refused to countenance till date. …
