A technology to bury underground the greenhouse gas emissions produced from burning coal must be ready for global deployment by 2017-2019, U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu said on Monday.
Coal is the world's single biggest source of carbon emissions, at 40 percent. Other sources included burning oil and natural gas, and deforestation and the production of cement.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 12, 2009
As the world wrestles with how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, new technologies are gearing up to grab climate-warming carbon right out of the air.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 09, 2009
Staples Inc and Home Depot Inc are collaborating with environmental groups in a pilot program aimed at conserving fast-disappearing Southern U.S. forests, organizers said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 08, 2009
Poorer countries are helping shape a broader pact to fight climate change but their efforts are being stymied by rich nations' lack of commitment on finance and tougher emissions cuts, the U.N. said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 08, 2009
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn't taking Apple's resignation quietly after Apple announced on Monday it was quitting the organization because it disagrees with the chamber's policy on climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2009
The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to craft a tough global climate agreement by December.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2009
The United States came under pressure to show leadership in U.N. climate talks on Wednesday with Mexico saying its neighbor is a stumbling block in efforts to try to craft a tough global climate agreement by December.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 07, 2009
European Union countries are split over plans to introduce an EU-wide carbon tax on fuel, which could be proposed early next year.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
Carbon emissions from a group of richer developing nations including Russia, China, Brazil and the Middle East must stop growing by 2020 to control global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 06, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies on Monday to set a goal within 90 days for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the White House said, aiming to lead by example in fighting climate change.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
Renewable Energy Certificates are not carbon offsets and should not be eligible as such under a U.S. climate bill, an environmental policy expert told Reuters.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
China and a top G77 official accused rich nations on Monday of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N.'s main weapon in the fight against global warming, as nations try to craft a broader climate pact.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 05, 2009
The world is in danger of spending its carbon budget by about 2025 and risks temperatures rising beyond 2 degrees Celsius unless nations adopt a flexible carbon accounting system, conservation group WWF says in a report.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
Efforts to convince rich nations to toughen emissions cuts have failed to make much headway at climate talks in the Thai capital, the U.N. said on Friday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
Developing countries will need to spend as much as $100 billion annually for the next 40 years to adapt to more extreme and severe weather changes, according to a World Bank study issued on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
The largest private forest owner in California, Sierra Pacific Industries, is entering carbon markets with a deal to preserve redwoods and other trees and sell credits for soaking up greenhouse gases to power companies and investors, the company said on Wednesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 02, 2009
David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 01, 2009
Investors such as UBS, Citigroup and Blackrock back a potentially multi-billion dollar carbon credit market centered on saving forests but regulations and cash were needed to build a market first, a survey has found.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 29, 2009
Darren Ennis
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 28, 2009
World leaders pledged last week to step up efforts to reach a U.N. deal to fight climate change, but they will have to match rhetoric with rapid action to break a crippling deadlock before a December deadline.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 28, 2009
The European Union's ambition to lead the fight against climate change faces a setback as its target of rolling out full-scale carbon capture and storage plants by 2015 is increasingly seen by experts as unrealistic.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 25, 2009
A summit of world leaders has dimmed hopes for a strong new U.N. climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, with details looking ever more likely to be left for 2010.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 23, 2009
