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Meeting the G8 emissions targets would mean poor countries compromising their development, Chinese researchers say.

Strong intellectual property rights do not always ease the transfer of climate technologies and may even hinder it, claims a study.

A UN conference has made an urgent call for developed countries to transfer climate-friendly technologies to the developing world.

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.

A global energy research network would boost "bottom up" mitigation strategies, says the World Economic Forum

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

An African climate negotiator has rejected the EU's suggestion that developing countries should meet some of their climate change costs.

Researchers have developed a model for greening the Sahara desert and say the method could help curb climate change.

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

The conditions are in place to eliminate carbon emissions from electricity generation in China, say scientists.

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

The African Union looks set to demand US$67 billion a year for technology transfer, training of scientists and data collection.

India has ambitious plans for solar power over the next three decades, but environmentalist Sunita Narain has warned that they are unrealistic.

Experts met this week to put the final touches to tsunami warning protocols for Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada and Jamaica.

The International Council for Science is asking scientists to define the research agenda in global environmental change.

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

The recently formed International Renewable Energy Agency has chosen to make the Middle East its home.

Biofuels from both food and non-food crops will be produced as a result of a research collaboration involving Brazil, Egypt and Sudan.

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