with applause for Australia for signing up to Kyoto.

Australia has just voted by a landslide to change its Government, and the new Prime Minster, Kevin Rudd, has promised his first official action will be to sign the nation up to the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. Expect to see Australia once again providing global leadership on environmental issues, now that the morally-deplorable, [...]

The US’ continual disregard for setting firm targets for reducing emissions was once again demonstrated in the Washington conference last week. Bush failed to specify goals for reducing greenhouse gases, according to the New York Times. The meeting which was arranged by the Bush Administration to include several high emitting countries in order to create [...]

The Bush administration is working towards a new goal for helping developing nations to reduce their carbon emissions: a US plan to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 is hoping to include some of the world’s largest emitters in a scheme forcing them to try to reduce emissions as far as possible in exchange for [...]

The UN climate conference held last week in Vienna finally bound industrialized nations to accept a commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by at least 25%. The Environment News Service reports that the talks among the 158 nations that were present showed a positive response to the climate problem. The talks have made way for the [...]