Three steps to leadership
A report presented at CoP 5 calls on the EU to stop waiting for the US and take leadership of the climate process
A report presented at CoP 5 calls on the EU to stop waiting for the US and take leadership of the climate process
The Kyoto agenda shuffled along at the recent climate change meeting in Bonn, but climate change mitigation was still not in sight
Even full adherence to the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions would have little impact on global warming, a leading Australian scientist said yesterday. Graeme Pearman, chief of the
Business leaders have said that UK government negotiations with manufacturers on complex pollution agreement may not finish before the October deadline, plunging a proposed climate change levy into
Arctic temperatures in the late 20th century, which were the warmest in four centuries, have been accompanied by a variety of other environmental changes, according to a review paper published in
A new report sponsored by the Pew Climate Center singles out 13 companies that are making voluntary efforts to track their greenhouse gas emissions. "You can't manage what you can't measure," said
The 11,000 inhabitants of a tiny Pacific country that was predicted to vanish under water because of the effects of global warming have been given a reprieve because sea levels have begun to fall. In
Analyzing sediments extracted from the cold, unfriendly depths of the Pacific Ocean, a Northern Illinois researcher has discovered that a vast undersea river dramatically affects the process by
Evidence that modern agriculture is making the landscape vulnerable to global warming has emerged from a simulation of climate change at two sites in Britain. Using soil heating cables, spray nozzles
The devastating floods and massive forest fires in the US are almost certainly connected, and appear to be the predictable consequences of global warming. Many scientists believe that that global
The Environment Agency has decided to submit a bill on attaining Japan's reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions to the 150-day regular Diet session beginning in January 2002, agency sources
The US is set to clash with the European Union over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions agreed as part of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In a submission to the United Nations
The first national report on climate change has been published in Uzbekistan. It was prepared as part of the "Uzbekistan-study of climate change in the country" project with financial support from
Tackling the climate-change problem will only result in a minor cooling of what is expected to a be a red-hot economy over the next 10 years, two new studies prepared for the Canada government has
Huge forest fires in the tropics may be a contributing factor to global warming, according to a study carried out by the Meteorological Research Institute. In addition to smoke and soot, the fires
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Laboratory has joined forces with seven companies to launch a new industrial consortium that will support research on carbon sequestration, a
The planet Mars has claimed another victim. After days of trying to make contact with Mars Polar Lander, an unmanned probe that was supposed to have touched down near the planet's south pole on
The Clinton administration proposed new rules to protect environmentally sensitive wetlands from development, a response to what administration officials called a recent rash of destruction.
The Bhutan government has banned the import of all second hand cars, regardless of origin, with immediate effect to control environmental pollution. A press release from the Cabinet Secretariat
Spain's newly-presented National Hydrological Plan, which aims to distribute water evenly throughout the country, has met with heavy criticism from water-rich regions and environmentalists. The most