At a time when Europeans increasingly embrace American notions of open markets and shareholder capitalism, attitudes on environmental issues and energy appear starkly different from those in the

The week the Sixth Conference of Parties (COP-6) to the Climate Change Convention will begin at Bonn, Germany. Environment ministers from the member countries are expected to restart the

On the eve of talks in Germany aimed at salvaging international efforts to slow global warming, Japan punctured hopes for an agreement this month. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, a pivotal figure

China, cited by President George W. Bush as a key reason why the United States walked away from a treaty aimed at cutting greenhouse gases, said on Friday it would send observers to next week's

Energy companies complained today that they could barely replace a turbine blade or boiler pipe without inciting regulatory scrutiny so onerous that it threatened their ability to light homes and

Canada, one of the world's worst polluters per capita, says there is no chance of reaching a comprehensive deal at talks in Bonn this week on salvaging the troubled Kyoto climate change protocol,

The latest United Nations climate conference in Germany is unlikely to bridge the divide between the US and the other developed nations over the Kyoto accord on global warming, Japan warned.

Diplomats from around the world gather in Bonn to address a seminal question: Will there be a Kyoto Protocol on global warming without the U.S. or none at all? The key player in answering that

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said that the Japanese government would not decide until late October whether to ratify the Kyoto climate treaty without the participation of the United

But as representatives from more than 170 nations meet in Bonn Monday to begin last-ditch talks to save a treaty to combat global warming, the town of E Schweiler, Germany provides one tiny slice of