The availability of open, high-quality, consistent, and comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data is essential to understanding the global trend in GHG emissions, and for countries to see their
After seven years in critical condition, the Kyoto global warming treaty has a new lease on life, thanks to its recent ratification by Russia. Supporters and skeptics alike agree that the treaty will
• Environmental and development groups in London boycotted a World Bank financial consultation meet on November 1, 2004. The groups have taken umbrage at the way the Bank is carrying out
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China has disclosed data pertaining to its greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The information was part of a report China Initial National Communication on Climate Change it submitted to the un F
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smokescreen: As per a study by UK-based Lon don School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Philip Morris, the world's leading tobacco manufacturer, studied the effects of smoking 30 years ago, but it
The Calpers board, the biggest US pension fund, said it wants major car makers to meet with it and defend their lawsuit against California's new rules for reducing exhaust emissions. The landmark
DaimlerChrysler and General Motors Corp. will jointly develop new hybrid vehicle technology as they strive to catch up with Japanese rivals on the fuel-saving systems that reduce harmful emissions,
The World Bank has expressed its opposition to the implementation of the Rs 670 crore Sujala Watershed development project by gram panchayats and has asked the Karnataka government to entrust the
While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them to clean up the dirty practices that have made
