Tropical forests are important globally in removing carbon from the atmosphere. It has been assumed that the tress were the mechanism that made this work.

Talks at the U.N.'s aviation body must bridge a deep divide between developed and emerging nations over airline emissions to avert the threat of a carbon trade war with the European Union.

At COP 17 in Durban, the Parties called for new market mechanisms, and more broadly, “various approaches, including markets” to “achieve a net decrease and/or avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions”.

The process of developing the carbon footprint of the Indian aviation sector for 2012 has provided a very good understanding of the sources of CO2 emissions, the availability and reliability of data from airlines and airports, emission trends, as well as required future initiatives.Within this context, the establishment of an aviation climate ch

Japan and the Maldives have signed an agreement to exchange Japanese low-carbon technologies for Maldivian quotas for greenhouse gas emissions.

The Government of the Republic of Maldives signs a Low Carbon Partnership Agreement with the Japanese government to promote Low Carbon Development.

Huge oversupply of carbon pollution permits will cancel out efforts made in other areas to cut carbon, study finds

Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace released State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2013 report in Barcelona, Spain.

The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) has obtained global Carbon Neutral certification for the hosting of the 6th South Asia Economic Summit in Colombo.

Action to tackle climate change needs to be urgently scaled up if the world is to have any chance of keeping a global temperature rise below 2 degrees C this century, according to UN Environment Pr

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