In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
To reduce carbon emissions, the New Zealand government recently decided to tax power generators and the industry from April 2007 for using coal, oil and gas. The tax of us $11 per metric tonne of carbon dioxide will be paid when companies buy the fuel, said Pete Hodgson, convener of …
Pointless: A US federal appeals court recently heard arguments on a five-year-old battle over whether the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from motor vehicles. The results were as unclear as ever. The plaintiffs in the case comprise 12 states, one territory, …
if people in Africa were to switch to charcoal as cooking fuel from wood, it would not only significantly reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions but also save millions of lives, claim researchers. Led by Dan Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, the scientists calculated the health and environmental effects …
The us Senate Environment Committee rejected the Bush administration's controversial Clear Skies bill on March 9, 2005. The bill imposes cuts on emissions of mercury, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from the country's coal-fired power plants. But environmentalists point out that it ignores the more urgent need of cuts in …
Market-based instruments (mbis), such as effluent taxes and subsidies for using environment friendly technologies, are increasingly being projected as efficient and cost-effective methods of environmental management all over the world. Economists have long argued for the greater use of such methods; over the last decade and a half, international conventions …
concerned at the urban air quality due to emissions from diesel vehicles, the Clean Air Initiative for Asia (cai Asia) sponsored a study in three typical Asian cities
The government of Australia's Victoria state has charged the country's federal government with discontinuing crucial research on cutting the emission of greenhouse gases (ghgs) merely on pecuniary grounds. The federal government has withdrawn funding for Cooperative Research Centre for Clean Power from Lignite, Mulgrave, Victoria. The centre was exploring ways …
this was one New Year the European businesses did not celebrate. From January 1, 2005, the energy-intensive industries in the eu, for the first time, have been compelled to cut their carbon dioxide (co2) emissions or face penalties under the eu Emissions Trading Scheme (ets). The scheme aims to enable …
This report examines greenhouse gas emissions at the global, national, sectoral, and fuel levels and identifies implications of the data for international cooperation on global climate change. Emissions are assessed within the broader socioeconomic context faced by countries, inclduing factors such as economic output, population size, trade, investment, and sectoral …
The Taskforce's recommendations are to all governments and policymakers worldwide. They are published in the year when the UK holds the presidencies of the G8 and EU, during which the UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to make climate change an agenda priority as one of the most serious …
Japan's environment ministry has proposed a new carbon tax to cut carbon dioxide emission and enable the country meet the requirements of Kyoto Protocol, a global treaty to fight climate change. Who will pay how much of the "environment tax' would vary with the kind of fuel. Processors and importers …
vapid cure is better than prevention. That's the us' policy on global warming. The us has now devised a new strategy to deal with the second most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
The EU has taken a major step towards implementing its emissions trading scheme (ETS), scheduled to begin in January 2005. On October 20, 2004, the European Commission (EC), the EU executive, gave a green signal to eight national allocation plans (NAPs) for regulating industrial emission of carbon dioxide. While the …
state governments across the country have missed the October 1, 2004, deadline to implement the new in-use emission norms for vehicles, better known as the pollution under control (puc) certificate programme. The Delhi government has extended the deadline by one month and the West Bengal government by one-and-a-half months. The …
The European Commission has traversed an important milestone towards emissions trading by approving eight national allocation plans for carbon dioxide emission allowances. While the plans of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden were cleared without any alterations, those of Austria, Germany and the UK were approved subject to some …
The uk's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been insisting that the issue of climate change is "very, very critical', and environment secretary Margaret Beckett claims that the country is a world leader in reducing emissions. Official statistics would, however, have told a different story had it not been for some …
the European Commission (EC) has decided to initiate legal action against six member countries which have not submitted their National Allocation Plans on carbon dioxide emissions. The deadline for the submission of these plans was March 31, 2004. These country-specific plans, allocating emission limits to domestic companies, are a step …
