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China, India Still Balk at Efforts to Curb Greenhouse GasesThe leaders of the countries most responsible for greenhouse gas emissions pledged Wednesday a shared effort to combat global warming, but developing countries like China and India continued to balk at the approach favored by the United States.
The 16 countries, along with the heads of the […]

US President George W. Bush pledged Sunday to play a “constructive” role on climate change at a summit of rich nations, but hopes for a breakthrough were dim as he pressed developing countries.Japan, the host of the three-day Group of Eight summit, pushed for progress in the fight against global warming but environmentalists said that […]

European Union energy ministers announced during an informal meeting Saturday that they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels.Documents issued by the EU since the ambitious energy and climate plan was unveiled in January 2007 have consistently […]

Global warming could cause a dramatic decline in plant species diversity on the rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwest China, say Chinese and U.S. scientists. Research into climate change and grazing conducted in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 1998 to 2001 showed a 26 percent to 36 percent decrease of plant […]

On the eve of a G8 summit due to address climate change, Britain admitted on Wednesday that it, and by implication others, has been drastically understating its true carbon emissions.The government, which boasts of its success in curbing national emissions of climate warming carbon, said the real picture was reversed if carbon linked to imported […]

The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers where he pleaded with the […]

Environment ministers from South Asian countries adopted a three-year action plan on Thursday for regional cooperation to combat climate change effects.The meeting agreed to share information and best practices on nationally appropriate actions to mitigate carbon emissions, technology transfer, increasing climate change awareness and other areas.
The meeting was also attended by environment experts from the […]

Governments are not acting fast enough to reduce carbon emissions, a climate change rally in Melbourne has heard.Wearing red, members of more than 60 environmental groups rallied in the city centre and marched to the Alexandra Gardens where they formed a human “sign” 140 metres long, spelling “Climate Emergency”.
The demonstration followed yesterday’s release of economist […]

A major climate change report for Australia’s government on Friday recommended the rapid introduction of an emissions trading scheme to curb greenhouse gases and warned that delay could be disastrous.”Without early and strong action, some time before 2020 we will realise we’ve indelibly surrendered to forces that have moved beyond our control,” said the report’s […]

An ice climber based in the Highlands has warned warming temperatures threaten the future of the winter pursuit in Scotland.Neil Smith, of Kyle of Lochalsh, is one of a number of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) climate change witnesses.
The conservation charity has published new research showing the UK is leading the G8 nations in meeting […]