Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 00:26
The EU today pitched for the need to "decouple" carbon emissions and GDP growth rates while asking major polluters, including non-parties to the Kyoto Protocol, to put in more efforts to reduce their emissions in the shorter term.
Last Updated: Monday, December 3, 2012, 09:53
Global discharge of green-house gases are growing three times faster than in the 1990s, which could produce a temperature rise of 4-6 degrees by 2100, a leading Australian scientist has warned.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 18:02
Scientists from the Arizona State University developed the new measuring system, called Hestia using data from a number of sources including air pollution reports, traffic counts and tax offices.
Last Updated: Monday, September 24, 2012, 15:33
Restricting world trade through policies such as CO2 tariffs, is not likely to lower global emissions significantly, warns a new report.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 09:43
India has joint the US and 15 other major countries in opposing European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which requires carriers flying to or from Europe to offset their carbon emissions.
Last Updated: Monday, June 11, 2012, 23:00
China said the current climate change problems were caused by developed countries in their long history of economic development.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 08:49
A split widened within the aviation industry today over EU charges for carbon emissions, as Europe's low-cost carriers accused Chinese and US rivals of "gunboat" diplomacy against the system.
Last Updated: Friday, December 2, 2011, 15:13
Under intense pressure to reduce its carbon emissions, China, the world`s biggest emitter of green house gases, has for the first time signaled that it may agree to a quantified target after 2020.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 20:48
European Union environment ministers said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto pact, on the condition that nations blamed for the rest join up too.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 7, 2011, 18:15
The CO2 in the atmosphere can be reduced to less than 40%, if people use every available means of reducing emissions.
Last Updated: Monday, May 30, 2011, 20:16
Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2010 were the highest in history.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 18:46
The report will highlight the policies needed for a low carbon growth.
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