Trading of greenhouse gas emissions may be the solution in the future to reduce industrial pollution, but specific trading rules have first to be adopted and recognised globally, experts say. A deal

Hit by chronic shortage in Uttar Pradesh, the Rajnath Singh government has decided to set up medium and small hydro power units in its well knit canal

Members of the Delhi Contract Bus Association (DCBA), "aggrieved and frustrated" over the "monopolistic, restrictive and unfair trade practices" of Nugas, have moved the MRTP Commission. In the first

As some 3,800 diplomats, technicians and lobbyists pressed various schemes in Bonn last week to complete the Kyoto Protocol to curb global warming, Iceland promoted the most radical plan of all to

The Kyoto accord on global warming survived a last-minute scare yesterday after technical wrangles held up final United Nations approval of a political compromise struck earlier this week to salvage

Against all Expectations, signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have been able to arrive at an agreement on how to operationalise the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; which is

Japan has asked the United States to swiftly come up with a specific counterproposal to the Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Shunji Yanai said Tuesday. Yanai

The 178 countries that completed a treaty on Monday aimed at curbing global warming may have to wait a very long time before President Bush, who rejected the pact, puts any alternative on the table,

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday defended America's record on environmental protection and said Washington was not denying its responsibilities by refusing to back the Kyoto pact on

Senate Republicans lashed at critics of the US decision not to sign the Kyoto climate change pact but vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through technology development, renewable fuels and