Over the past four months "Road to Durban: A Green City Journey" has traveled south from the UK to the COP17 Conference in Durban, exploring efforts to reduce carbon emissions in urban centers.
The U.N. climate talks kick off in Durban, South Africa. CNN's Robyn Curnow has a preview of COP17.
Representatives from about 200 countries start meeting on Monday in China to narrow differences on climate change and grapple with extreme weather such as rising temperatures and melting polar icecaps.
It's a massive jamboree, with tempers on both sides of the issue running hot and no final deal in sight.
Two market mechanisms within the Kyoto Protocol can help overcome the North-South divide, and help reach a solution between rich and poor nations while overhauling the world's energy industry and creating win-win solutions for the world economy.
In just six months' time, the world will be watching as several thousand delegates descend on Copenhagen for the most important climate change talks since the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Japan in 1997.
The House approved a sweeping energy and climate bill Friday which could for the first time usher in widespread government restrictions on greenhouse gases and help renewable energy become cost competitive with fossil fuels.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Tuesday urged urban leaders and policymakers they need to take the lead now in fighting climate change.
The owners of New York's Empire State Building are spending millions to go "green." CNN's Maggie Lake reports
What do CEO Bill Ford of Ford Motor, CEO Jim Rogers of Duke Energy and CEO Bruce Usher of carbon trader EcoSecurities have in common? A deep aversion to unpredictability.
The world is facing an increasing risk of "irreversible" climate shifts because worst-case scenarios warned of two years ago are being realized, an international panel of scientists has warned.
The Japanese space agency launched a satellite Friday that will measure greenhouse gases from the earth's orbit.
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has described as "tragic" the lack of action on climate change by developed countries.
You wanted to know more about carbon trading, and Abyd Karmali, Managing Director and Global Head of Carbon Emissions at Merrill Lynch answered.
Canada's prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more involved in the global debate on the issue
The 15th UN climate change summit will convene in Copenhagen in December 2009, and world leaders will begin discussing a successor to Kyoto
Human-induced climate change is thought to be one of the greatest challenges facing mankind in the 21st Century. A change in temperature of only a couple of degrees has the potential to adversely impact economies, communities and ecosystems throughout the world.
In the coming years we face an unprecedented challenge -- to provide the means for global prosperity, growth and stability from a radically different set of energy sources.
U.S. negotiators at a United Nations climate conference say steep emission cuts could further rattle the world economy, especially in the developing world
A White House acceptance of mandatory caps on carbon outputs is conditional on the unlikely prospect of India and China doing the same
True or False: China, India and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol
True or False: Aviation's contribution to climate change is around 3 percent.
A report leaked last year reveals the shipping industry's impact on the environment could be far worse than anyone previously imagined. Other stories have also recently surfaced concerning the growing number of pollution-related deaths directly attributable to ships' emissions.
Sailing doctor sees green opportunities on the horizon. CNN's Hugh Riminton reports.
The world came together to solve the climate change crisis, and dragged along the U.S., kicking and screaming
The United States has rejected a proposal Saturday by developing nations to clarify their responsibilities to control greenhouse gas emissions, prolonging a tense logjam blocking agreement on negotiations for a new global warming pact, The Associated Press reports.
CNN's Dan Rivers reports from the Climate Conference in Bali on the release of Indonesian sea turtles.
Ten years after Kyoto, nations are wrestling once again over climate change. But big questions remain to be answered
President Bush called on Friday for a new fund to reduce global warming while refusing to sign emission-reduction obligations, prompting criticism from Environmentalists and some nations
When science collides with White House politics, the chemistry isn't always pretty. CNN's Miles O'Brien reports
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged China on Monday to do more to halt climate change, prompting the response that the developed West has been polluting the skies for much longer than the newly developing Chinese.
Troubled, flawed and shunned by the United States, the Kyoto Protocol remains to date the most comprehensive attempt by the international community to tackle, at a governmental level, one of the defining issues of our age: global warming and climate change.
George Bush has taken a beating for saying flat out that the U.S. will not try to meet the targets set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming. But here's the thing: Kyoto was already dead. Bu...
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