Global efforts to tackle climate change are way off track says the UN, as it details the first rise in CO2 emissions in four years.

 Britain's carbon emissions have sunk to the level last seen in 1890 – the year before penalties were first awarded in football.

 The European Commission has published proposals aimed at reducing vehicles' carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030.

 The European Commission proposed new rules on Wednesday for road charging systems across Europe, saying they must be based on distance to reflect the carbon footprint of cars and trucks.

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions could be reduced by 70 percent by 2050 and completely phased out by 2060, research by the International Renewable Energy Agency showed on Monday.

 As airlines struggle to find cleaner ways to power jets and with an industry-wide meeting on CO2 emissions just months away, scientists are busy growing algae in vast open tanks at an Airbus site at Ottobrun, near Munich.

 Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.1 percent to a three-year low in the fiscal year ended March 2015, due to reduced power demand and growing use of renewables,

 Confusion over the types of coal being burned in Chinese power stations has caused a significant overestimation of the country's carbon emissions.

 Scientists have warned that marine life will be irreversibly changed unless CO2 emissions are drastically cut.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam needs about 30 billion VND to reduce Carbon Dioxide - CO2 emissions in its industry sector from now to 2020, which is quite a big challenge on its way to achieve a sustainable economic development.

 The International Monetary Fund urged countries to reduce subsidies on energy, saying they worsen government's fiscal positions and eventually create more advantages for the wealthy instead of the poor.