The Punjab Environment Protection Department is establishing a climate change cell for offering technical advice to the stakeholders on climate change and carbon trading.

The building sector has a big responsibility and role to play in combating global warming. In 2007, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report estimated that this sector, when it adopts suitable measures, can help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30 per cent to 40 per cent.

Chinese legislators said on Thursday that their country will "strive to control greenhouse gas emissions" and consider new laws to fight climate change, while warning against using the issue to raise trade barriers.

With the United States, and a few other developed countries, dead against any extension to the current global arrangement on climate change, the December summit in Copenhagen might well sound the death knell for the Kyoto Protocol and replace it with another agreement or a

World Energy Solutions is selling 15 million sovereign Kyoto Protocol carbon emissions rights through its World Green Exchange, the Massachusetts-based company said in a statement late on Monday.