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29.04.2010
Romania to launch carbon trading scheme
BUCHAREST — The Romanian government on Wednesday gave its go ahead to a carbon trading scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions, hoping to earn up to 2.5 billion euros (3.3 billion dollars) until 2012.
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29.04.2010
Climate Bill Delay Stymies Voluntary CO2 Market
Delay to a draft of a U.S. climate change bill this week has frustrated some investors in the voluntary carbon market, who were tipping it to become the template of a federal climate change bill.
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28.04.2010
SAARC leaders to project "green and happy South Asia"
Heads of eight South Asian countries, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, will on Wednesday seek a joint initiative to tackle climate change threats and also boost trade and regional cooperation among SAARC nations that more often than not do not see eye to eye with each other on most issues.
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27.04.2010
Climate change needs to be discussed in 'meaningful' way: India
THIMPHU: With climate change being the central theme of the SAARC summit, India hoped the eight-nation bloc would hold the dialogue on the issue in a "meaningful manner" and backed its "fresh" position on global warming to be adopted at the Cancun meet later this year.
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23.04.2010
Derivatives Bill Calls For U.S. Carbon Market Study
A tough new proposal to regulate U.S. markets calls for top regulators and government officials to conduct a study on transparency in emerging U.S. carbon markets as part of the financial reform package.
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21.04.2010
China-led bloc to consider Kyoto climate pact future
A bloc of the world's fastest growing carbon emitters, seen as key to a global deal on climate change, appears for the first time willing to discuss the future of the Kyoto Protocol to get the United States on board.
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21.04.2010
BASIC to discuss Kyoto Protocol survival
NEW DELHI: At their meeting this weekend, the four BASIC countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – will discuss the Kyoto Protocol's chances of survival.
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19.04.2010
W.Bank says East Asia can stabilise CO2 by 2025
China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, and five other East Asian nations, need a net additional investment of $80 billion per year to get on to a sustainable energy path, the World Bank said on Monday.
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19.04.2010
$16m better off on emissions tally
The latest official estimates have shaved nearly two million tonnes off New Zealand's projected net emissions of greenhouse gases over the 2008 to 2012 period.
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18.04.2010
Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice
Rafael Quispe is gearing up for his trip. He packs a small leather bag, puts on his black poncho, an alpaca scarf sporting the rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous flag and his black hat. "This will be an important gathering, a very important gathering. It is about saving our Mother Earth, about saving nature," he says.
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17.04.2010
US, China to see if climate gap can be bridged
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Four months after the widely criticized Copenhagen summit, key nations including the United States and China are trying to find out if they can bridge wide gaps on climate change.
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17.04.2010
U.S. seeks climate ideas after Copenhagen fell short
OSLO--The United States is asking for ideas about how to tackle global warming without raising expectations of breakthroughs in 2010 ahead of climate talks among the world's top emitters on Sunday in Washington.
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16.04.2010
UN climate adviser seeks top post at UNFCCC
The top climate change adviser for the United Nations has been nominated to head the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a UN spokesperson confirmed on Thursday.
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