Scientists unveiled the first digital map of the Earth’s geology on Wednesday and said it could guide oil and gas exploration and mining.
A grouping of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters on Sunday backed United Nations-led efforts to forge a global pact to fight climate change but disagreed on a sectoral approach to curb emissions from industry. G20 nations held three days of talks near Tokyo to discuss ways to tackle rapidly rising emissions.
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A 190-nation climate meeting in Bali began a hunt for a new global deal to fight global warming by 2009 on Tuesday with skirmishing about how far China and India should curb surging greenhouse gas emissions. ”The conference got off to a very encouraging start,” said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat.