Energy-saving light bulbs promoted in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s economy has been growing at such a fast pace over the past five years that there are concerns the nation is using too much energy.

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Aid groups drive to curb deadly gas-guzzling cars. Aid agencies spend about $800 million a year on vehicles, but they could save $160 million annually -- and many lives -- by training staff in road safety and buying appropriate cars to higher environmental standards, logistics specialists say. [News Source]

Environmentalists threaten to launch legal challenge. The federal government is violating both the Kyoto Protocol and its own pollution rules by failing to put in place strong measures to limit greenhouse-gas emissions, a major environmental group contends. [News Source]

Persistent dead zone off Oregon coast linked to global warming. A recent United Nations report listed 200 dead zones around the world. Almost all of them are caused by fertilizer and pollution running down rivers to feed huge algae blooms. [News Source]

$60m for climate projects announced. Prime Minister John Howard today announced $60 million in funding on projects to help cut greenhouse emissions, including almost $20 million for clean coal technology and $11 million for coal mining. [News Source]

British report backs more carbon trading. Commissioned by Britain's government, an economist's report on climate change calls for the global expansion of the European Emissions Trading Scheme. [News Source]

Global warming could cool oil prices in long run: analysts. Climate change, the subject of a key independent report published this week, could push oil prices lower in the long term as warmer air reduces demand for heating fuel, analysts said on Tuesday. [News Source]

City casts its cold eye on global warming. Sir Nicholas Stern could not have been clearer: there will be winners and losers in the shift to a low-carbon economy. [News Source]

Qantas plan to offset its carbon emissions. Qantas Airlines is designing a program to allow passengers to offset the carbon emissions from their flights. [News Source]

Canada climate-change stand spurs election talk. Canada's minority Conservative government could face a confidence motion over its climate-change policy this week but political strategists said it was unlikely the country would be thrown into a quick election over the issue. [News Source]

Australia says Kyoto a symbolic failure. Australia said on Wednesday it would use new technologies to make fossil-fuels cleaner and tackle climate change, but continued to reject the Kyoto Protocol. [News Source]