With the price of carbon credits continuing to slide in the global markets and the first commitment period for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, under which carbon trading is permitted) coming to ...More

Energy firms will be allowed to triple the amount of money they add to customers' bills to pay for renewable power, nuclear and other environmental measures, under plans to be announced by the governm ...More

The climate change meet at Doha is expected to yield little, with the US and the EU focused on economic recovery. The 18th Conference of Parties (COP 18) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cha ...More

The climate change meet at Doha is expected to yield little, with the US and the EU focused on economic recovery. The 18th Conference of Parties (COP 18) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cha ...More

A U.N. report on rising greenhouse gas emissions reminded world governments on Wednesday that their efforts to fight climate change are far from enough to meet their stated goal of limiting global war ...More

Talks on a new climate change treaty in Qatar next week will not advance unless rich countries promise more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, four major developing nations said. The four na ...More

NAIROBI, Nov. 21 — A public-driven initiative to conserve the environment and ensure its sustainable exploitation was launched in Kenya on Wednesday. The initiative dubbed Changieni Rasilimali (Cont ...More

Talks on a new climate change treaty in Qatar next week will not advance unless rich countries promise more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, four major developing nations said. The four na ...More

NAIROBI, Nov. 21 — A public-driven initiative to conserve the environment and ensure its sustainable exploitation was launched in Kenya on Wednesday. The initiative dubbed Changieni Rasilimali (Cont ...More

A coalition of the world's largest investors called on governments on Tuesday to ramp up action on climate change and boost clean-energy investment or risk trillions of dollars in investments and disr ...More

A "rogue pack" of senior Conservatives is undermining promises made by David Cameron to tackle climate change, the leader of one of Britain's largest green groups said on Tuesday. Calling on the prim ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The world may turn into a hot kettle, with temperatures rising by four degree Celsius, by the end of this century, warns a World Bank report that probed into climate change and ris ...More

NEW DELHI: A week ahead of the Doha round of United Nations sponsored negotiations on climate change, the BASIC countries-Brazil, South Africa, India and China-met in Beijing to chalk out their strate ...More

NEW DELHI: Fears and grim predictions of climate change impacting the ecology may soon be a reality. World Meteorological Organisation, in a statement released on Tuesday revealed that the amount of g ...More

Commuters climb aboard a bus in floodwaters in the Lat Phrao shopping and business district in Bangkok. Climate change threatens all countries but poor nations in particular, says the World Bank Photo ...More

Putting a price on carbon is fundamental. If consumers and businesses do not bear the cost of their carbon pollution, they won’t do much about it. This price should not discriminate between locations: ...More

GENEVA: Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin on Tuesday. ...More

A slew of short and long-term measures including ban on entry of commercial vehicles not bound for Delhi, restriction on use of diesel generator sets during social functions, imposition of Rs.2,000 fi ...More

Scientists have discovered that unlike the dramatic losses in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change. The first direct evidence that marked change ...More

Negotiations towards a new global treaty on climate change took a small step forward on Friday as the Australian government announced it would join up to a continuation of the Kyoto protocol beyond 20 ...More