The agreement struck in Bonn by environmental ministers from Europe, Japan, Canada and Australian has left President George W. Bush more isolated than ever on the issue of global warming, putting him

A wallflower at what might have been its own victory party, the United States could only watch as 178 countries agreed on a deal which salvages the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and commits the rest of the

The deal reached in Bonn to rescue the Kyoto Protocol on climate might have set up some countries as future winners and others as losers. But it is not clear which is which. In the short term, US

As political fudges go, the deal struck on the Kyoto Protocol was not bad-and certainly better than a breakdown in negotiations. Industrialised countries achieved their main aims. European nations

The private sector has responded enthusiastically to a U.S. initiative that will study ways to capture and store carbon dioxide--one of the most potent greenhouse gases that causes global warming.

An historic agreement to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming was concluded by 178 countries. It is the first international treaty to restrain energy

The US has said that President George W Bush had made no commitment to proposing an alternative by the autumn to the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty which it rejects. The White House on Sunday disputed

The Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that is intended to control global warming, was rescued this morning from an impasse that has

The world's environment ministers clinched a historic last-minute deal in Germany on Monday that should force industrial powers to cut emissions of the industrial greenhouse gases blamed for global

The world's Environment Ministers clinched a historic last-minute deal in Germany on Monday that should force industrial powers to cut emissions of the industrial greenhouse gases blamed for global