The Federal government has committed $4.5 billion to clean energy in the 2009-10 Budget, which it says will cut carbon dioxide emissions and tackle climate change.
The funding will include $2.4 billion in low-emissions coal technologies …

Australia’s carbon trading scheme will start a year later than planned, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced on May 4, blaming the climate policy shift on the global financial crisis

“The worst global recession since the Great …

Climate change is causing some of the mightiest rivers on the planet — such as the Ganges, the Niger and the Yellow river in China — to dry up, a new study has found.
The faster …

Australia’s carbon reduction targets are insufficient to reverse severe climate change, Chinese experts warned, urging wealthy nations to rein in their “wasteful and luxurious” lifestyles.
Media reports on April 15 quoted Pan Jiahua from the Chinese …

 
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by the end of the century would cause the Earth to warm by an average of about 2 degrees rather than twice as high if emissions keep growing …

A poll of climate experts commissioned by the London Guardian newspaper found that nearly 9 out of 10 respondents doubt the world can reach the 2-degree-Celsius target by the end of the century.
 
The poll surveyed more than 1,500 scientists, …

The world’s first retrofit of a power plant with carbon capture and storage technology will begin operating in April in the south of France, The Guardian reported.
Energy company Total has upgraded an existing gas-fired boiler …

Australia has submitted a proposal to U.N. climate negotiators outlining a scheme to use carbon credits to protect rain forests.
The submission is being reviewed by negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany, to discuss a new climate …

The United States will host a meeting of major economies in late April to pave the way for an international agreement on climate change and energy later in the year, the White House has announced.
The …

Two new afforestation and reforestation  projects have been approved by the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in March, according to the World Bank, which manages them.
The  Moldova Soil Conservation Project  is run by Moldova’s State …