MADRID (Reuters) - Spain on Tuesday predicted on Wednesday that its greenhouse gas emissions in the 2008-12 period will be almost 20 percent above the upper limit it was set in 1990 under the Kyoto Protocol. The Environment Ministry said emissions would be, on average, 34.45 percent above 1990 levels ...

SINGAPORE/OSLO (Reuters) - Hopes for stronger world action in 2010 to curb climate change have dimmed after the U.S. Democrats lost a key Senate seat to a Republican opposed to capping emissions, experts said on Wednesday. The election of Republican Scott Brown, an opponent of cap and trade, to ...

An alternative approach to developing a greener energy industryPolitical bickering and posturing hasreached a fever pitch with media attention focused on the climateconference in Copenhagen. Are we atGTO the only ones who believe it is extraordinarily naive to expectrepresentatives from a hundred-plus nations to come to a substantiveagreement that will ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed maintaining the Kyoto Protocol, against the European Union's preferred position, as he warned on Thursday U.N. climate talks were "heading for disaster". "So people want to keep Kyoto, OK let's keep Kyoto. But let us agree on an overall political ...