Rainforest nations will lobby the United Nations to set up a single body to coordinate the use of carbon credit trading to stop deforestation at a conference next month in Poland, an official from the countries said on Tuesday.

Economic revival in the former Soviet bloc has been the main driver in pushing up industrialised nations' greenhouse gas emissions since 2000, despite plans to cut them, UN data showed on Monday.

In order to boost production of clean energy source the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), would inaugurate on Monday a clearing house in the city. The new unit would enable those interested in extraction of methane from the coal mines of CIL to bring in technology and funds.

Sigmar Gabriel
Conflicts over energy and water will shape the decades to come and an efficient use of resources will become one of the dominating issues.

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President-elect Barack Obama may have to compromise on a key point in his proposed climate policy if he wants to push through a program to regulate greenhouse gases, said the lead author of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study on cap-and-trade markets.