The Sydney Futures Exchange is planning to launch a market in permits to emit greenhouse gas to take advantage of legislation being drafted by the Australian state government of New South Wales,

Seven industrial sectors, including the automobile and steelmaking industries, have revised their targets for cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions, the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations

For years, U.S. energy and utility execs had a simple and direct response to the threat of global warming: Rubbish! Not every exec came to the same conclusion, however, American Electric Power Co.

Gerhard Schroder, Germany's chancellor, faced the first rift in his coalition government as differences emerged with his Green Party allies over planned increases in energy taxes to fund cuts in

For years a powerful industry coalition, led by automakers and coal and oil companies, tried to persuade everyone that global warming was nothing to get overly alarmed about. The barons of fossil

Proposals made by a group of developing countries at UN climate talks on how rich nations could help pay to slow global warming were called 'extremely useful' by European Union officials on

There is bad news for all those brave ones who belong to the school of thought that global warming and the greenhouse effects are humbug creations of the green brigade. Average temperature of the

Australian stockbrokers are planning to implement an emissions trading market within the next year. The move will be one of the first concrete realisations of proposals originally mooted at the 1997

EI Nino and La Nina, the periodic global weather phenomena, played havoc with the agricultural systems, food supply chains besides life and property of people in several continents this year. Damage

The centre has decided to bear half the maintenance cost of irrigation projects after failing to persuade state govenemnts to raise irrigation cess which partly funds the cost. The pending