News tagged with kyoto climate treaty
Canada withdrawal from Kyoto is 'bad news': France
Canada's decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol is "bad news" for global efforts against climate change, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Canada's Kyoto withdrawal under fire from China
Canada's historic decision to withdraw from the Kyoto protocol provoked heavy criticism from China on Tuesday, with Beijing saying the move went against international efforts to combat climate change. ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Canada formally withdraws from Kyoto Protocol (Update)
Canada became the first country to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, saying the pact on cutting carbon emissions was preventing the world from effectively tackling climate change.
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Afforestation will hardly dent warming problem: study
Schemes to convert croplands or marginal lands to forests will make almost no inroads against global warming this century, a scientific study published on Sunday said.
Jun 19, 2011 |
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Obama to launch clean energy initiative in India
US President Barack Obama and India are expected to launch a joint initiative on clean energy, eyeing economic opportunities in an area that has long divided the two countries.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 05, 2010 |
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The Asia-Pacific Partnership and the Kyoto Protocols: In conflict or cooperation?
President Obama's visit to China before December's Copenhagen conference underlined views that the international strategy to tackle climate change truly hinges on cooperation between the United States and the developing Asian ...
Jan 11, 2010 |
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Denmark urges agreement on climate change funds
(AP) -- Denmark urged the European Union, the United States and other rich countries to commit to financing for a new climate change deal, saying Friday that billions of dollars are needed.
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal
(AP) -- Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing ...
May 24, 2009 |
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US supports reducing climate-warming gases
(AP) -- The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threat to climate change Monday, and expressed a preference for drastically ...
May 04, 2009 |
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Kyoto treaty is ‘failing the world’s poor’, say scientists
Initiatives aimed at cutting emissions while encouraging economic development are failing the world’s poorest countries, leading scientists from Oxford University are warning.
Apr 16, 2009 |
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