The UN’s Climate change agency welcomed recent proposals by the World Bank to fund and help poorer countries fight against Global Warming, but environmentalist groups criticised the credibility of the proposals.
The World Bank will manage 2 separate multi-million dollar funds, one of which will aid developing countries curb their emissions which contribute to climate change; [...]

Australia’s environment minister, Peter Garrett, celebrated World Environment Day by announcing three new initiatives to help householders fight climate change while keeping their wallets full. The initiatives include:

a new television labelling scheme to enable consumers to identify the most energy efficient sets at point of sale
a new guide to help householders and in particular renovators [...]

Microgeneration could produce as much electricity in a year as five nuclear power stations a government-backed report reveals. The report, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), says that with the right incentives 10m microgeneration systems could be installed by 2020. This would provide nearly 5% of UK electricity - saving [...]

The UK government’s plan to propose an £800m offer to poor countries in order to prepare them for climate change has sparked controversy with environmental activist groups. The money would be in the form of grants or loans and would be channelled through the World Bank rather than the UN.
Internationally agreed principles state that developed [...]