Maybe it happened the day after Hurricane Katrina or the night Al Gore won an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth, but the first phase of the global-warming debate has ended. Even Skeptic-in-Chief George W. Bush recently convened a global-warming summit, where Condoleezza Rice told foreign diplomats that "climate change is a real problem--and human beings are contributing to it."

The uk will not be able to meet its carbon dioxide emissions reduction target of 20 per cent by 2010, says a recent report. The report, UK Energy and the Environment, by think-tank Cambridge

Two summits on global warming lay bare a yawning gap over who needs to do what, as well as the ghost of a deal

On August 17, 2007, the government of Lithuania formally decided to take the European Commission to the European Court of Justice over reduced co2 emission allowances (carbon quota) for the next

An 80-day protest march was started in Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 15 to highlight the dangers of global warming. The march, organised by charity group Christian Aid, will travel through the

Two accidents heat up the debate over whether to revive nuclear power to fight climate change

An environmental group sued Canada for failing to meet its Kyoto Protocol obligation to cut greenhouse gases (GHG) in the country. The Canada chapter of an international NGO, Friends of the Earth