Emissions
The facts on 'clean coal'
WASHINGTON: Both John McCain and Barack
Obama have frequently mentioned their support for "clean coal" on the
campaign trail, but neither one of them has fully explained what that
means.
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Get the rich to pay to keep rainforests intact: report
WEALTHY nations should pay dozens of the world's poorest countries up to £19 billion ($47.6billion) a year to preserve their rainforests, according to a report commissioned by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Oil giant urges opposition to vote against trading scheme
CANBERRA: ExxonMobil has urged the Australian federal opposition to use its numbers in the Senate to protect the petrol refining industry from being forced offshore by the Rudd Government's proposed emissions trading scheme.
EU split over climate change goals
BRUSSELS: EU leaders are split over climate change goals, with Poland and Italy leading a bid to water down earlier agreements and Britain urging its partners not to waver as the financial crisis strikes.
Cities can meet Environmental Challenge: Report
THE WORLD's busiest cities can meet the environmental challenges facing them, says a top-level report.
The report, Sustainable Urban Infrastructure, sponsored by Siemens and based on interviews by The Economist Intelligence Unit and rese...
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