Smoggy Manila Speeds Compliance with Clean Air Law The Philippines was stepping up emission enforcement measures to comply with its clean air law, officials said, concerned over the choking levels of air pollution in Manila and three other major cities. (Manny Mogato, PlanetArk)
India Unlikely to Agree to Kyoto Emission Caps India is unlikely to agree to any emission caps in the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol because of its expanding energy-hungry economy, but analysts say developed nations will continue to pile pressure on the nation. (Sugita Katyal, Planet Ark)
CLP to Build LNG Terminal to Cut Pollution Hong Kong utility CLP Holdings Ltd. said it hoped to build a terminal for liquefied natural gas by 2010 to help meet a target of slashing air pollutants by up to 20 percent from 1997. (Nao Nakanishi, Planet Ark)
Six-Nation Climate Change Meeting set for Mid-Jan World's top polluting nations will meet in Australia in mid-January to try to work out ways of curbing greenhouse emissions without hurting their economies, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said. (Planet Ark)
