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China has reduced its sulphur dioxide emissions, but its failure to reduce nitrogen emissions could worsen acid rain in the country.

A weather station network across South Asia is part of an India-led drive for locally produced climate change data.

Biofuels are neither a panacea nor a pariah, says a major UN report, but they must not be grown on productive cropland.

Wastepaper has been overlooked as a clean, cheap source of biofuel that could replace five per cent of petrol, say researchers.

Scenarios — and costs — for attaining a low-carbon economy in China are outlined in a major report.

Poor countries can continue to develop while curbing climate change, by pursuing 'climate-smart' technologies, says the World Bank.

Newly-developed climate models have dismissed predictions of extreme greenhouse gas emissions for India.

India has said that it will not agree to emission reduction targets, given that it has among the lowest emissions per capita.

Small farmers across the developing world could benefit from a project to measure the amount of carbon locked in soils.

Methane emissions from rice fields could be cut dramatically by combining two simple farming practices, say researchers.

A simplified model shows that the world's total carbon output since the industrial revolution must reach no more than a trillion tonnes.

A community forestry project in Haryana state has won the world's first afforestation clean development mechanism certificate.

Developed and developing countries are divided over whether a registry to record mitigation efforts should be mandatory.

South Africa aims to employ carbon capture and storage technology by 2020, starting with the creation of an atlas of potential sites.

Carbon emissions are far higher than expected, so climate change is likely to be more severe than predicted, warns an IPCC member.

Climate change may be affecting the Asian monsoon cycle, according to an analysis of ancient Chinese stalagmites.

Mexico has received a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank for developing strategies to mitigate the impact of global warming.

The rise in temperature in India due to climate change will not be compensated for by increased rainfall, warns a leading climate scientist.

New policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector should take into account the effects on small farms, say scientists.

Previous estimates of how much cities contribute to the world's greenhouse gas emissions are overstated, according to a researcher.