Sunday, 12 February 2012

Economic development and the occurrence of floods are making layers of difficulty for cities in the fast growing Asian region, the World Bank said. A policy guidebook released by the bank on Monday noted that floods are the most frequent among all natural disasters. But in East Asia, the Pacific and South Asia, the problems caused by floods are magnified.
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Monday, 30 January 2012

A high-level United Nations panel on global sustainability formed by Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, in its final report said “the world is still not on the path of sustainable development,” even though real progress has been made on some issues.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The United States Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday made public the list of the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in America, the first release of such data through the country’s national GHG reporting program.
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Monday, 02 January 2012

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a restraining order on the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule that was set to start last January 1. The E.P.A. directive requires utilities to adhere to stricter limits on nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide that cause soot and smog.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, we review policies that have shaped and influenced this year’s renewable energy path. Every initiative, every project, wherever it may be throughout the world, had and will always have an impact on the earth’s status on where we are now as a global community, and would markedly determine how we will be able to survive and ride out whatever challenges are in store for us, emerging as victors in the campaign for a cleaner and greener world.
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Monday, 19 December 2011

The United States Government Accountability Office on Monday underscored the need for more stringent oversight and accounting of stimulus funds being donated by the Department of State in its first-ever detailed report on the government’s financial support for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Monday, 12 December 2011

As conceptualized by the Durban Platform, which was agreed upon by 195 United Nations member countries during the recently concluded 17th Conference of the Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund will soon be made operational, garnering the commitment of the International Development Finance Club, a network of 19 leading development banks to leverage resource support to their constituencies.
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Sunday, 11 December 2011

The 2011 United Nations climate talks ended after two weeks of negotiations, with the 195 parties to the 17th climate change convention in Durban, South Africa agreeing on a roadmap proposed by the European Union for drawing up a legal framework by 2015, committing to a second phase of the 1997 Kyoto protocol, and discussing in detail how the Green Climate Fund can be made operational.
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Thursday, 08 December 2011

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s annual pollution enforcement and compliance records show that more than 1.8 billion pounds in pollution has been reduced all over the U.S., with an estimated $19 billion in required pollution controls and approximately $168 million in civic penalties this year.
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011

The United States is not keen on considering a legally-binding treaty that would limit heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions. U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern said that the U.S. would maintain its focus exclusively on bringing the Cancun Agreements – which cover 80 percent of the world’s emissions – negotiated last year to fulfillment and would only be open to discussing a new process for addressing emissions after 2020, the year in which the Cancun Agreements end.
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011

Earth Networks and California will set up a network of stations that will measure and monitor greenhouse gas emissions throughout the state. “More data is necessary to better understand the world around us and the changes taking place over time in the atmosphere,” says Bob Marshall, chief executive of Earth Networks.
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Monday, 05 December 2011

The United States Department of the Interior, through the U.S. Geological Survey, has started with a project that will help it deepen the understanding of what’s been called one of the most important chemical cycles on the planet.
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Sunday, 04 December 2011

A new analysis from the Global Carbon Project said carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 49 percent in the last two decades, threatening global efforts to limit dangerous global surface temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial average – despite formal recognition of the threat and some mitigation efforts from countries.
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Friday, 25 November 2011

People worldwide are now less supportive of the use of nuclear power after an earthquake and giant tsunami devastated Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power station revealed its risks, according to poll from GlobeScan conducted for the BBC. In countries currently operating nuclear power plants, people have grown more averse to the power source than they were in 2005, with only Great Britain and the United States going against the trend.
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Thursday, 24 November 2011

A new wave of e-mails allegedly written by climate scientists disproving the existence of global warming and the need for international climate talks and policies have surfaced a week before the scheduled United Nations climate conference in Durban.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Climate change may make it difficult for world governments to control the spread of diseases, especially the insect-borne ones, the World Health Organization said.
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Monday, 21 November 2011

Top government executives should devise a grand-scale strategy to manage the risks of extreme weather phenomena, a recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed.
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Friday, 18 November 2011

Former Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a climate and clean energy think tank, has changed its name to Center for Climate and Energy Solutions with the loss of its 13-year backer, Pew Charitable Trust.
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011

Global carbon dioxide emissions could rise 43 percent between 2010 and 2035 as fossil fuels remain as our chief source of energy, according to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The large hike in emissions is deemed to be caused by the continued use of polluting energy sources unabated by projects and policies that seek to cut down the heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions they emit.
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Monday, 07 November 2011

According to scientists, the situation of the world right now is this: we have a warming planet. The warming is causing the ice to melt, raising sea levels that over the 20th century have gone up by up to 20 centimeters (almost 8 inches). Nine of the last 10 years were the hottest years on record.
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