Carbon World:

 Switzerland will host an informal summit of 40 countries, including India, on global warming on Friday to discuss modalities for a new Climate Fund that is expected to unblock the stalled negotiations on the issue.

 Japan plans to start emissions trading in 2013, as the government revived a climate-protection draft law that was scrapped earlier this year when then Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned. 

Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday it wants to reach cumulative sales of 5 million hybrid vehicles in the early part of this decade.

Toyota, the pioneer in gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles, said earlier ...

The World Bank has defended its investment in chemical plants accused by green groups of raising production of greenhouse gas HFC-23 with the aim of incinerating it to get extra carbon offsets worth millions of dollars.

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Japan's government plans to subsidize domestic plants producing clean-energy and energy-efficient goods under steps to support the slowing economy, the Nikkei newspaper said, as the murky outlook keeps firms from boosting spending at ho...

Green investment in China will forge ahead even without a United Nations carbon offset scheme, eventually shriveling the country's dominant role in a program that has underpinned billions of dollars in investment.

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The emerging global standard for companies to measure and track Scope 3 greenhouse gases (GHG) is on schedule for finalization in December.

Scope 3 emissions often represent the largest area of a company's GHG impacts by far -- up to 75 percent in many cases -- yet a wide...

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the only way Britain will meet legally-binding targets to cut greenhouse gases by 80 per cent over the next 40 years is to invest in low carbon technologies like offshore wind, electric cars and solar panels.

But whilst the rest of the worl...

Nissan Motor Co priced its battery-powered Leaf hatchback at more than twice the cost of a similarly sized gasoline car, counting on government subsidies to drive demand for the emissions-free vehicles.

In a world crying out to make the earth a greener place, the new buzzword is reducing each individual's carbon footprint. Simply put, it means reducing the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO2) that each person produces and contributes to the environmen...

 It's not easy to quantify sustainability, but it's pretty safe to say that TD Bank is now one of the greenest banks in the U.S. The company recently announced that it is the largest U.S.-based bank to achieve carbon neutrality. That means all of the bank's energy use is offset by various en...