A copy of the much anticipated US Senate climate bill reveleas a proposal that calls for a cut in US greenhouse gas emissions of 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 - a more ambitious …
Economic stimulus packages should boost investment in green projects, the United Nation’s Environmental Program (UNEP) said this week.
Investments in environmentally-friendly projects fall short of the $750 billion or one percent of global GDP recommended …
Chinese President Hu Jintao has announced that his country aims to significantly curb its carbon emissions over the next decade, by a “notable margin” by 2020 from the 2005 levels.
The move prompts hopes that a …
Some 10,0oo industrial sites in the US will have to fully report their greenhouse gas emissions to the federal government as of January 1, as part of ambitious action by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …
More top corporations are paying attention to their greenhouse gas emissions and are assigning top managers to curb them, according to a new survey.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a UK-based nonprofit that presses businesses to …
The world can fight poverty and climate change at the same time, but it will cost, according to the World Bank’s ‘World Development Report 2010.’
Poor countries will need nearly $500 billion annually by 2030 to …
Australia ranks last among wealthy countries in its ability to compete in a clean energy future, a new report has found.
Australia ranked 15th among G20 countries for its readiness to stay wealthy as it shifts …
In an effort to push global climate change talks forward, the European Union last week offered to pay up to 15 billion euros per year to help poorer nations confront climate change.
That adds up to …
The world’s richest nations will have to put US$10 billion “on the table” during the Copenhagen climate change summit, if the negotiations are to succeed, said Yvo De Boer, head of the United Nations Framework …
The Australian parliament has passed an amended greenhouse gas and energy reporting bill, which removes the requirement for Australian firms to publish corporate-level energy production, PointCarbon reported.
The legislation was first introduced in 2007 in preparation …