Britain's first clean coal plant will miss a government deadline and its first new nuclear plant will not come on line before 2020, reflecting global climate policy uncertainty, a utility chief said on Thursday.

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It is the only source of energy which could meet the needs of 10 billion human beings in 2050.

South Korea's Environment Minister Maanee Lee said on Thursday a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen may not reach an agreement, although Asia's fourth-largest economy will play a "bridging" role between developed and developing nations.

Needed facility: A view of the biogas plant in Tuticorin on Wednesday.

Tuticorin: Collector G. Prakash inaugurated a 250-KVa (Kilo Volt ampere) project to generate electricity from effluents released fish processing companies here on Wednesday.

He said the waste extracted from fish cleaning and exporting activities could be converted into useful gas.

India, which hopes to attract $16 billion in renewable energy investments by 2012, will soon announce new policies to cut the cost of investment in the green sector, the chief of India's renewables agency said on Thursday.

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Prospects for a new U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen have brightened but negotiations must speed up to meet a December deadline, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday.

Despite Washington's nearly single-minded focus on healthcare reform, the Obama administration still expects the U.S. Senate to pass climate change legislation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday.

Climate talks could draw on global recovery spending to smooth a deal in Copenhagen in December to replace the Kyoto Protocol, said Nick Robins, head of HSBC's climate change research center.

HSBC analysts estimate the green portion of a $3.1 trillion fiscal stimulus at about $512 billion.

Washington: A team of scientists has created a prototype of aspeed bump that can capture kinetic energy from vehicles passing by, to convert it into clean green electricity.

According to a Fox News report, the prototype, known as the