Countries launch carbon trading market
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Senior officials from the European Union, three U.S. states, Canada, Norway and New Zealand launched an international effort Monday to fight climate change by building a global carbon trading market.
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European and Asian leaders pledged Monday to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond those now set for 2012 under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. But they set no firm targets now, bowing to Asian reluctance to do so.
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Britain on Tuesday became the first country to propose legislation setting binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions as it stepped up its campaign for a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
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By Justin Harper, Daily Mail, London  Feb. 17--One of the key themes in politics and business this year is  saving the planet. The World Economic Forum meeting in Davos focused on the  need for governments to fight climate change. Big businesses are starting to  take heed.
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By Sun Xiaohua  The State Environment Protection Administration (SEPA) and Ministry of Finance (MOF) are working together to start a cap-and- trade system to curb China's world-leading emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2).
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PARIS, Feb 15  French President Jacques Chirac called today for developed countries to cut gas emissions to a quarter of current levels by 2050 -- exceeding targets set by the Kyoto pact to combat ...
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At the Climate Change Conference in Buenos Aires, the EU has focused attention on the post-Kyoto process. Now that Russia has ratified the pact and it goes into force next year, it is time to look beyond 2012.
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Signing the Kyoto Protocols is one thing, adhering to it something else again. Greenhouse gas emissions rise for the industrialized nations, who look like they're going to have a hard time reigning in their waste to meet 2012 goals.
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European Union transport ministers approve a plan to make airlines part of a carbon trading scheme.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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Britain on Tuesday became the first  country to propose legislation setting binding limits on  greenhouse gases as it stepped up its campaign for a new global  warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
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Prague. October 4. INTERFAX EUROPE ? Russian firm Carbonica-F will build a steam-gas power station in the Czech Republic in cooperation with an as yet unknown partner, reports the latest edition of the weekly ...
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The race for the first carbon-neutral, zero-emissions community is on, from Costa Rica to Libya to an island in San Francisco Bay.
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Can the emerging superpower fast-forward through the most carbon-intense phase of nation building?
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"The risk of the global economy taking a downward turn is increasing"  The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.Climate change returned to the fore at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, where Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda proposed a 2020 deadline for countries to boost their energy efficiency by 30 percent. He added that Japan would try to spread its high-quality environmental technology around the world. Read more
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The planet isn't the only thing heating up because of climate change. Some renewable-energy stocks have been pretty hot, too.
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The Environment Ministry unveiled a carbon tax Friday to discourage use of fossil fuels and promote the use of energy-saving appliances so Japan can meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.