Law fixed on greenhouse gas target
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 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
The UK and Germany have set out their common aim to see the Kyoto Protocol enter into force by 2002, and call on developed nations to show leadership by taking domestic action.Michael Meacher, UK
According to new policy documents published by both parties in UK, the Conservatives would introduce targeted incentives and tradable emissions permits as a system for protecting air quality, whilst
New government figures show that greenhouse gas emissions in 1998 were 19% above the level set under the Kyoto Protocol, placing Canada's targets in severe doubt. Environment Canada, the federal
If any explorers had been hiking to the North Pole this summer, they would have had to swim the last few miles. The discovery of open water in the Ple by an icebreaker cruise ship in mid-August
The periodic El Nino warming of the Pacific Ocean also reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the air -- a condition some say contributes to global warming, according to a study being published in
As international negotiations on climate change accelerate under the mantle of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, pressure on Seoul, the world's 11th largest emitter of carbon dioxide, is increasing.
An international team of scientists sifting through historical records has found unusual evidence of long-term global warming:Many lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere typically freeze over a
As forests fire rage in the American West, a link between forests and global cooling may not be immediately apparent. But limiting the emission of carbon dioxide into the air from fuel burning
Ford Motor Co. said it was quitting the Global Climate Coalition because the industry funded lobbying group was standing in the way of the automaker's own efforts to make progress on the environment.
Putting the Kyoto Protocol into effect would have significant economic impacts on developing countries, even though they have no emission targets under the treaty.An Australian think tank has claimed