Category: Governments & Politics

Germany hopes for car emissions accord with France by June

BERLIN (AFP) - France and Germany are close to an agreement on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from cars, as

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Maldives president seeks help for ‘paradise drowning’

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom made an impassioned plea Tuesday for a cut in global greenhouse

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Greece to explain itself to UN on gas emissions

ATHENS, April 22, 2008 (AFP) - Greece will submit its gas emissions system to United Nations inspection after being

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Crisis of food shortages

International agencies have met with the British government to discuss the rising level of hunger worldwide. Report courtesy of www.bbc.co.uk

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Norway gives Tanzania funds to fight climate change

OSLO (AFP) - A Norwegian aid package will give 500 million kroner (100 million dollars, 63 million euros) to

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No improvement in climate fight since 2006 film: Gore

LONDON (AFP) - Nobel Peace Prize-winner Al Gore said in an interview published Monday that there had been no

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Greenpeace orang-utans storm Unilever building

LONDON (AFP) - Sixteen Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans on Monday scaled the front of the Unilever building in

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McCartney urges vegetarianism to fight climate ills

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Beatle Paul McCartney is urging the world to go vegetarian in a bid to

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Thousands march in Spain over climate change

MADRID (AFP) - Thousands marched through Madrid on Sunday to demand that the Spanish government adopt concrete measures to

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Biofuels under attack as world food prices soar

PARIS (AFP) - Hailed until only months ago as a silver bullet in the fight against global warming, biofuels

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