Senators John Mc-Cain and Joseph Lieberman are planning to force a vote on an effort to control global warming when the Senate takes up an energy bill this week. While both senators concede that

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and private sector companies are taking the initiative in formulating plans for converting greenhouse-gas emissions rights into financial instruments ahead of the

The White House was preparing to issue a revised 10-year global warming research plan that sets five goals, chief among them identifying

Seven months after with a promising to come forward with a plan to look into the causes of global warming, the Bush administration released a comprehensive proposal for 13 federal agencies to

The European Union emissions trading directive has been adopted and finalised by the European Council, formally creating the largest emissions trading scheme in the world.Company emissions can now be

With the U.S. having abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, the global warming treaty's fate now hinges on Russia, which is dragging its feet in what some see as an attempt to extract greater economic rewards

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In an indication of how successfully the US is undermining an internationally-negotiated agreement on checking climate change, visiting US assistant secretary of state John Turner said that his