Copenhagen aims to be first carbon neutral capital

October 2nd, 2009 Obama adviser says no climate change law this yearWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "That's not going to happen," the adviser, Carol Browner, said Friday.

September 30th, 2009 US says climate bill might not pass in timeBANGKOK — The fate of U.S. legislation capping carbon emissions weighed heavily on delegates at U.N.

August 6th, 2009 China negotiator optimistic on climate treatyBEIJING — China's top climate envoy said Wednesday he is optimistic that upcoming negotiations will produce a new treaty to fight global warming, but said developed countries have slowed the process by not setting emission-reduction targets. The nature of global warming means the cost of failure is too high, Yu Qingtai told a news conference.

July 29th, 2009 Russia wants second base in KyrgyzstanMOSCOW — Russian news agencies are quoting a top Kremlin adviser as saying Moscow aims to build a second military base in Kyrgyzstan, where the United States also has a major air base. The RIA-Novosti news agency cited Sergei Prikhodko as saying Wednesday that Kyrgyz and Russian officials have agreed in principle on putting a base in Kyrgyzstan's South.

July 20th, 2009 Tiny Tuvalu says all its energy renewable by 2020BANGKOK — The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, already under threat from rising seas caused by global warming, vowed Sunday to do its part for climate change by fueling its economy entirely from renewable sources by 2020. The South Pacific nation of 12,000 people is part of a movement of countries and cities committed to going climate neutral.

June 3rd, 2009 US may not be ready with numbers for climate dealBONN, Germany — The United States may miss a December deadline for committing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but that should not block an international agreement on global warming, the chief U.S. negotiator said Wednesday.

April 24th, 2009 Calif. approves nation's 1st low-carbon fuel ruleSACRAMENTO, Calif. — California air regulators have adopted the nation's first mandate for low-carbon fuels, a major step in the state's effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

March 28th, 2009 KARACHI - The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has rejected Pakistan's demand to shift its Davis Cup second-round tie against the Philippines to a neutral venue, the country's tennis chief said Saturday. Dilawar Abbas, the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) president, told IANS that he has received a letter from the ITF boss that the tie will have to be played in Manila this July.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Carbon dioxide released from the Antartic Ocean due to shifting wind patterns may drastically increase global warming, say scientists. Many scientists think that the end of the last ice age was triggered by a change in earth's orbit that caused the northern part of the planet to warm.

February 27th, 2009 KOLKATA - Recession is making rich countries more negligent towards controlling carbon emissions, environmentalist Sunita Narain said Thursday, adding it was time to 'reinvent opportunities' to control pollution. 'As it is, between 1990-2006, carbon emissions of rich countries have increased by 14.5 percent; it has increased by 20 percent in America alone.

February 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists hope to get a clearer picture of how the Earth reacts to carbon dioxide with the launch Tuesday of a new spacecraft designed to collect data on the climate-changing gas. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is set for launch early Tuesday from California and will take about eight million measurements every 16 days for the next two years.

February 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australians are already doing more than their share of heating up the world, with average greenhouse gas emissions near the top of the table. Now the continent's worst forest fires on record have bumped up the size of Australia's carbon footprint.

February 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 'voluntary signal' from India on where and when it will cap its greenhouse gas emissions can help resolve the current impasse holding up a global deal to combat climate change, says UN Environment Programme chief Achim Steiner. 'It is in India's own interest to make the transition to a low-carbon economy,' Steiner, the UN under secretary-general and UNEP executive director, told IANS in an interview here.

January 30th, 2009 DAVOS - With the economic crisis likely to dominate much of 2009, world leaders in Davos have urged that climate change should remain in focus. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and others attending the World Economic Forum warned against letting the economic worries overshadow the need to solve the climate issues as the two were interconnected.

January 8th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan's hockey officials are considering inviting India for a Test series on an offshore venue later this year. Qasim Zia, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president, told IANS Friday that the PHF has discussed the idea of playing matches on neutral venues with India and other major hockey-playing nations in a bid to revive Pakistan hockey.