The world has emitted extra greenhouse gases this century equivalent to the annual totals of China and the United States above a maximum for avoiding the worst of climate change, a study estimated Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 01, 2009
Europeans could help cut climate warming emissions to much safer levels for just 2 euros ($3) each per day, but they would also have to cut back on driving and meat eating, a report said Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 01, 2009
The benchmark contract for European Union carbon emissions futures were steady on Tuesday, ignoring the threat of a blocks to an Australian emissions trading scheme, traders said.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 01, 2009
While nations bicker over the size of emissions cuts and climate funds, saving forests has turned out to be among the least contentious issues in U.N. climate talks and has achieved the most progress.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 01, 2009
For anyone trying to understand why the United States is having such a hard time joining an international effort to combat global warming, a short drive west from Washington to one of the smaller states in the country might explain a lot.
IBT Staff Reporter
Dec 01, 2009
A clutch of major emerging economies including China and India have forged a united front to put pressure on developed countries at next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
Three little letters could spell big trouble for global climate change negotiations even after China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced its first firm goals to curb emissions.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
Trade in permits to pollute is largely pointless when compared with the scale of growth in greenhouse gases in China and must be scaled up, one of the carbon market's most senior traders said on Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
The world should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels with the bulk of the reduction coming from rich countries, according to a draft proposal by Denmark, host of Dec 7-18 U.N. climate talks.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
Primary market prices for carbon offsets generated by clean energy projects under the Kyoto Protocol fell to their lowest level since July, analysts IDEAcarbon said late on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
Australia's key policy to fight global warming limped closer to defeat on Monday with parliament set to delay or reject the government's carbon emissions trade scheme, raising the chances of an early election.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
Australia's major rivers are shrinking and farms are gripped by drought as scientists warn of climate change, but that has not convinced some skeptical politicians to back carbon-trade laws.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
European carbon prices could soar in the next three years, pushing up electricity prices with them, unless electricity companies have greater access to future carbon permits, EU industry body Eurelectric said on Monday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2009
The White House gave a mixed reaction on Friday to China's plans to cut its carbon intensity levels, welcoming the proposal but saying the world would watch whether Beijing kept its promises to tackle climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 27, 2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Friday for the creation of a $10 billion a year fund to help developing countries battle climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 27, 2009
A top Chinese climate envoy said on Friday only emissions curbs carried out under its newly announced carbon intensity targets that have international financial support will be open to outside scrutiny.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 27, 2009
Three little letters could spell big trouble for global climate change negotiations even after China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced its first firm goals to curb emissions.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 27, 2009
Prices for benchmark European Union carbon emission permits fell 2 percent on Friday, as traders viewed the previous session's gains as short-lived.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 27, 2009
U.S. congress has begun investigating climate scientists whose emails and documents were hacked into to see if their global warming theories have misrepresented the truth behind the cause of climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 26, 2009
China is preparing to unveil a target to curb carbon emissions ahead of a major climate summit in Copenhagen next month, but experts and negotiators worry Beijing's much-anticipated figure may disappoint.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 26, 2009
China has unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions, laying out a carbon intensity goal on Thursday that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to looming climate talks as his government's central commitment.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 26, 2009
The United States unveiled a plan to cut greenhouse gases by 2020 on Wednesday and said President Barack Obama will attend U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen next month -- before other world leaders show up.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 25, 2009
