Under the Kyoto protocol the Netherlands has to reduce its greenhouse emissions by an average of 6 percent a year relative to 1990 in the period 2008-2012. The emissions in the base year 1990 totalled ...

The carbon market is still in its infancy but as private sector investors are discovering this niche as uncorrelated performance driver, the dynamic is shaping up. The Kyoto Protocol set the framework ...

Potential loopholes in the Kyoto Protocol could allow the US to profit from the treaty by selling surplus carbon emissions credits to other industrial nations, an Australian environmentalist has ...