Green and white trams will soon be ferrying passengers across Paris. The reintroduction of trams is an effort to cut down the city's growing pollution and traffic congestion. Under the initial phase

The European Commission's decision to include non-eu airlines in its emissions trading scheme has been deferred for now. Earlier, in a bid to curb its greenhouse gas emissions, European regulators

coke unit shut: The Maoist labour union in Nepal has shutdown the country's only Coca-Cola bottling company, Bottlers Nepal, due to an ongoing dispute regarding employment of contract workers. The

a case on global warming, a first in the history of the us Supreme Court, was recently taken up for oral arguments. This, despite inaction by the government and a highly polarised court. The

DaimlerChrysler and its subsidiary, Mercedes Benz (usa) have agreed to pay us $1.2 million to settle civil charges with the Environmental Protection Agency (epa) for failing to disclose defects in

in what can be called a positive step towards fighting climate change, the European Commission has demanded sweeping cuts in emission rights from its member states. The commission announced an

in contrast to the conventional practice of rating cities only on the basis of air pollution, a new study has benchmarked 20 Asian cities on their ability to manage air quality. The report, Urban