Stories tagged "carbonemission"

Global warming has become such an overriding emergency that some climate experts are willing to consider schemes for partly shielding the planet from the sun's rays.

It is a firm favourite in Chinese restaurants the length and breadth of the country, but crispy Peking duck faces extinction at the hands of the European Union.

The notion of green computing is an unhelpful one, making it harder for companies to implement carbon reduction policies. Better terms are needed to really promote understanding and action of environmental issues, report suggests.

The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to tackle the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, a British think-tank said on Monday.

Recently Paul McCartney called on the British public to cut meat from their diet on Mondays. We're taking this world-wide one step at a time! Join our campaign to commit to being vegetarian on Mondays and see what difference one day a week makes.

A global report card on nations doing the most, and least, to clean up the environment.

Do Americans Have Green Fatigue? One recent poll showed that American consumers are increasingly unlikely to spend money on energy-efficient goods and services.

Asian countries need help to build cities that can cope with the region's "unprecedented" urban expansion of more than 100,000 people a day over the next two decades, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday.

A certificate scheme that shows which firms have made genuine carbon cuts is launched by the UK's Carbon Trust.

The shortest distance in the discourse about climate change is that between denial and despair. The head wrested from the sand soon becomes the head in the hands.