The Taskforce's recommendations are to all governments and policymakers worldwide. They are published in the year when the UK holds the presidencies of the G8 and EU, during which the UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to make climate change an agenda priority as one of the most serious and far-reaching challenges of the twenty-first century. It is also the year in which the Kyoto Protocol comes into force and nations start discussions on future global action on climate change.

This balanced analysis presents news from the 'climate-protection front'.

Japan's environment ministry has proposed a new carbon tax to cut carbon dioxide emission and enable the country meet the requirements of Kyoto Protocol, a global treaty to fight climate change. Who

But surely not more then carbon dioxide?

States miss deadline to implement emission norms

US nitrogen oxide emissions have reduced: EPA

The European Commission has traversed an important milestone towards emissions trading by approving eight national allocation plans for carbon dioxide emission allowances. While the plans of Denmark,

On EU states over emission control plans

The uk's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has been insisting that the issue of climate change is "very, very critical', and environment secretary Margaret Beckett claims that the country is a world leader

A bill to restrict emissions of the greenhouse gas (ghg) carbon dioxide is under consideration in the us House of Representatives. The proposed Climate Stewardship Act, endorsed by both Republicans

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