State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>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
Climate Change
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Sydney exchange discusses pollution market
The Sydney futures exchange and the New South Wales government met to discuss the development of a sulphur and carbon emissions trading market. Sydney aims to "take its place with Chicago and London
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Emissions targets are well within reach, say ministers
National targets for reducing greenhouse gases were "well within reach", the UK government said. The UK, which is legally bound to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent between 1990
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The Kyoto road
Combating global warming was never going to be easy. The UK government's consultation paper on its strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions shows just how difficult it likely to be. Most
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Energy tax proposed for UK firms
The UK government is planning to hit businesses with a GBP2bn/a energy tax to help the country meet its target of a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2010. But large industrial companies have
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India team to attend weather meet
India will send an official delegation to the international meet on climatic changes to be held in Buenos Aires from Novemebr 2 to 13. The agenda of the meeting is crucial for India and other
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NASA helps "hot" cities cool down
Environmental planning for the 2002 Olympic games, strategies to reduce ozone levels, focussed on tree-planting programs and identification of cool roofs are early spinoffs from a NASA urban study
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African environment ministers agree common position on the Kyoto Protocol
Meeting in Nairobi under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), African ministers of environment agreed on a common position with regard to the Clean Development Mechanism
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Global warming irrelevant to India
Negi : India need not fear the global warming phenomenon gas emissions is negligible compared to developed countries, according to eminent geophysicist Dr J G Negi.The panic being created over global
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Researchers find signs of warming in Arctic air, ice and water
The $19.5 million project, called Sheba, for Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean, is a detailed measurement of heat flowing among the water, ice and air of the Arctic, and the results are
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U.S. protests formation of group for global gas-emissions trading
The formation of a private, global organization to market so-called greenhouse gas emissions trading certificates on the Internet has triggered a protest by some U.S. traders, who say it may violate