After much argument about whether countries should be allowed to use carbon sinks to offset carbon emissions - with Europe adamantly against their use until recently - EU research commissioner

Canada's environment minister denied this week reports of a rift inside cabinet over whether to ratify the Kyoto climate change accord, saying no final decision had been taken. David Anderson played

Fears that greenhouse gas emissions will be well above the 2010 Kyoto targets have been confirmed by the latest global emissions report from the UN Environment Programme, UNEP.

Britain said yesterday it will start auctioning emissions reduction allowances and incentives in late February, ahead of the planned launch in April of the world's first national CO2 emissions

In the continuing debate over global warming and how to fight it, some scientists and entrepreneurs advocate using the oceans as a sponge to absorb carbon dioxide from the air. Others are saying not

The Dec. 7 launch of Jason 1, NASA's newest oceanography satellite, will continue the mission started by Topex/Poseidon to monitor global climate interactions between the sea and the atmosphere.

Chicago will become the US' first city to develop of a carbon emissions trading system, alongside the world's biggest metropolis, Mexico City, which has announced similar

The Japan's Environment Ministry proposed Thursday establishing a mechanism to encourage companies to publicize their greenhouse gas emissions and a system of neutral third parties to evaluate and

Negotiators from 165 countries have agreed on rules for implementing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls on about 40 industralised nations to limit carbon emissions or cut them to below-1990 levels.

After all-night talks at the end of the COP7 conference in Marrakech, delegates from 171 governments have now finalised the "rulebook" for the Kyoto Protocol.