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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Vast grasslands provide a promising future for clean energy in China, with rich reserves of solar and wind power and great biofuels potential, experts at an international conference here said. Zhang Yingjun, a professor who specializes in grassland research at Beijing-based China Agricultural University, said to develop liquid fuels (mainly ethanol, at […]

Global warming legislation will be enacted for the first time in Pennsylvania when Governor Ed Rendell signs the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act as he is expected to do. The measure was overwhelmingly approved today by both houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.A coal-rich state, Pennsylvania emits one percent of the world’s greenhouse gases responsible for […]

Following the U.N. conference on climate change in Bali last year, negotiations on an international framework to follow the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 are now under way. So naturally, climate change will be a key agenda item at the G-8 summit Japan is hosting this month.As it stands, the Kyoto Protocol covers only around 30% […]

China said it is open to general discussion of longer-term goals and industrial targets to combat global warming at the G8 summit, but fended off talk of any specific pledges, stressing rich nations should lead the way.Despite its growing economic and diplomatic clout, China is not a member of the Group of Eight industrialised countries […]