Bangladesh's central bank has launched a 2 billion taka ($29 million) refinance scheme for renewable energy in an effort to help ease power and gas crisis and reduce pollution.
India has decided to push ahead with an ambitious plan to generate clean electricity through the power of the sun - and, after a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, it wants rich nations to pay the bill.
A government plan for greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 would push down Japan's economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and raise unemployment by 0.2 percentage points in 2020, a government panel report showed on Wednesday.
