19.05.2010
Stake-holders ignored in climate change consultations
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State government is getting closer to finalise its action plan on climate change, environmentalists have expressed concern that important stakeholders have been ignored during consultation process. |
18.05.2010
ANALYSIS - U.N. climate chief faces widening rich-poor split
OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - Incoming U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica inherits a widening split between rich and poor nations over how to slow climate change, with almost no chance of a treaty in 2010, analysts say. |
29.04.2010
Romania to launch carbon trading scheme
BUCHAREST — The Romanian government on Wednesday gave its go ahead to a carbon trading scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions, hoping to earn up to 2.5 billion euros (3.3 billion dollars) until 2012. |
29.04.2010
Climate Bill Delay Stymies Voluntary CO2 Market
Delay to a draft of a U.S. climate change bill this week has frustrated some investors in the voluntary carbon market, who were tipping it to become the template of a federal climate change bill. |
28.04.2010
SAARC leaders to project "green and happy South Asia"
Heads of eight South Asian countries, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will on Wednesday seek a joint initiative to tackle climate change threats and also boost trade and regional cooperation among SAARC nations that more often than not do not see eye to eye with each other on most issues. |
27.04.2010
Climate change needs to be discussed in 'meaningful' way: India
THIMPHU: With climate change being the central theme of the SAARC summit, India hoped the eight-nation bloc would hold the dialogue on the issue in a "meaningful manner" and backed its "fresh" position on global warming to be adopted at the Cancun meet later this year. |
23.04.2010
Derivatives Bill Calls For U.S. Carbon Market Study
A tough new proposal to regulate U.S. markets calls for top regulators and government officials to conduct a study on transparency in emerging U.S. carbon markets as part of the financial reform package. |
21.04.2010
China-led bloc to consider Kyoto climate pact future
A bloc of the world's fastest growing carbon emitters, seen as key to a global deal on climate change, appears for the first time willing to discuss the future of the Kyoto Protocol to get the United States on board. |
21.04.2010
BASIC to discuss Kyoto Protocol survival
NEW DELHI: At their meeting this weekend, the four BASIC countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – will discuss the Kyoto Protocol's chances of survival. |
19.04.2010
W.Bank says East Asia can stabilise CO2 by 2025
China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, and five other East Asian nations, need a net additional investment of $80 billion per year to get on to a sustainable energy path, the World Bank said on Monday. |
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