The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to craft a tough global climate agreement by December.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2009
The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to craft a tough global climate agreement by December.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2009
European Union countries are split over plans to introduce an EU-wide carbon tax on fuel, which could be proposed early next year.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
Carbon emissions from a group of richer developing nations including Russia, China, Brazil and the Middle East must stop growing by 2020 to control global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies on Monday to set a goal within 90 days for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the White House said, aiming to lead by example in fighting climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
Renewable Energy Certificates are not carbon offsets and should not be eligible as such under a U.S. climate bill, an environmental policy expert told Reuters.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.'s main weapon in the fight against global warming, as nations try to craft a broader climate pact.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
The world is in danger of spending its carbon budget by about 2025 and risks temperatures rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius unless nations adopt a flexible carbon accounting system, conservation group WWF says in a report.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in the Thai capital, the U.N. said on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
Developing countries will need to spend as much as $100 billion annually for the next 40 years to adapt to more extreme and severe weather changes, according to a World Bank study issued on Wednesday.
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Oct 02, 2009
The largest private forest owner in California, Sierra Pacific Industries, is entering carbon markets with a deal to preserve redwoods and other trees and sell credits for soaking up greenhouse gases to power companies and investors, the company said on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 01, 2009
Investors such as UBS, Citigroup and Blackrock back a potentially multi-billion dollar carbon credit market centered on saving forests but regulations and cash were needed to build a market first, a survey has found.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 29, 2009
Darren Ennis
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 28, 2009
World leaders pledged last week to step up efforts to reach a U.N. deal to fight climate change, but they will have to match rhetoric with rapid action to break a crippling deadlock before a December deadline.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 28, 2009
The European Union's ambition to lead the fight against climate change faces a setback as its target of rolling out full-scale carbon capture and storage plants by 2015 is increasingly seen by experts as unrealistic.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 25, 2009
A summit of world leaders has dimmed hopes for a strong new U.N. climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, with details looking ever more likely to be left for 2010.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 23, 2009
The most anticipated climate meeting in years will be held in the Danish capital in December. Out of those talks a broader climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol is expected to emerge.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 23, 2009
World leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks on Tuesday but new proposals by China and a rallying cry from U.S. President Barack Obama did little to break a United Nations deadlock.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2009
A U.S. climate bill will cripple Texas's vital energy sector and damage the state and national economies, Republican Governor Rick Perry said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2009
The U.S. government will begin requiring big companies to monitor and report greenhouse gas emissions, officials said on Tuesday, a move that could make it easier for federal regulators to cut emissions if Congress does not pass a climate change bill.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2009
When it comes to offsetting carbon footprints, European companies seek offsets sourced from far off, romantic countries, while North American firms prefer those generated by local clean energy projects, a survey found.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 22, 2009
