(May 27, 2009 | Energy)
France and Pakistan are negotiating a partnership including nuclear cooperation and French President Nicolas Sarkozy could travel to Pakistan in the autumn to sign a deal, a source close to Sarkozy said.
(May 26, 2009 | Climate Change)
Industry needs financial backing to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change, business leaders told a climate conference, drawing criticism that they put profits before the environment.
(May 26, 2009 | Energy)
Solar power plants in deserts using mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays have the potential to generate up to a quarter of the world's electricity by 2050, a report by pro-solar groups said on Monday.
(May 25, 2009 | Climate Change)
Top emitters of greenhouse gases tried to break a deadlock about sharing the burden of cuts in a U.N. climate pact, and Washington rejected charges that it was lagging Europe in fighting global warming.
(May 25, 2009 | Climate Change)
A draft U.S. climate bill did not go far enough to cut greenhouse gases, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Reuters on Sunday.
(May 22, 2009 | Climate Change)
A law expected to be approved by Brazil's Congress granting 1.2 million people and numerous companies a huge chunk of the Amazon rain forest could provoke a new wave of deforestation, conservationists warn.
(May 21, 2009 | Climate Change)
Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations.
(May 21, 2009 | Climate Change)
A scheme that could unlock billions of dollars for poorer nations by saving their forests is set to be included in a new climate pact, a top U.N. official said, but funding still need to be resolved.
(May 20, 2009 | Climate Change)
The United Nations issued a range of rival ideas for fighting climate change from rich and poor nations and said the world was "not standing still" in work on a new U.N. treaty.
(May 20, 2009 | Demographics)
The mayors of some of the world's richest cities have a message on climate change for the ever-growing urban areas of the developing world: "Don't repeat our mistakes".
