Six nations launch ‘clean energy’ fund to rival Kyoto

The United States, China, Japan, India, South Korea and Australia, have launched a multi-million dollar fund to promote clean energy technologies as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

A meeting in Sidney of a group of six nations representing about half of the world’s human-induced greenhouse gas emissions ended on Thursday (12 January) with the creation of a fund to promote cleaner energy technologies.