New Australia PM signs Kyoto Protocol ratification instrument
Incoming Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Monday that he has signed Australia's instrument of ratification for the Kyoto Protocol , ending nearly 10 years of Australian opposition to the pact. Rudd...
Small island states say climate change threatens human rights
Representatives of 26 members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) met Tuesday in Maldives to work on a draft resolution on climate change to be presented at the 2007 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
US, Australia willing to join talks on Kyoto accord replacement: UN official
The executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC) , said Thursday that the United States and Australia want to participate in negotiations for a new global agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol [PDF...
Federal judge orders Bush administration to produce reports on global warming
The Bush administration violated US law by not producing a study on the effects of global warming, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Rejecting government arguments that it had discretion as to when to produce the reports, US...
The UK parliament's Joint Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill urged parliament to amend the draft climate change bill to include the monitoring and analysis of all greenhouse emissions instead of only carbon dioxide...
The twenty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, as hundreds...
Supreme Court endorses EPA authority to regulate 'greenhouse gas' car emissions
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate the emission of "greenhouse gases," such as carbon dioxide,...
Gore pushes new global treaty on greenhouse gases in congressional testimony
Former Vice President Al Gore testified before US congressional committees Wednesday that global warming is "a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth." In his opening statement [prepared...
The British government introduced a progressive new draft environmental bill on Tuesday that could control greenhouse gas emissions until as far as the year 2050. Outlined in the Queen's Speech [text; PM...
Five western governors sign agreement to reduce greenhouse gases
The governors of five western US states signed an agreement Monday to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases , a cause of global warming . During the winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA)...
