CO2 emissions keep on rising....

No matter what plan we come up with, and no matter what agreement people sign, emissions still are quite sticky....

Two weeks before the start of key talks on global warming, the UN's climate-change watchdog issued figures here Monday that reflected poor headway by industrialised countries towards curbing dangerous carbon pollution.

Greenhouse-gas emissions by 40 so-called Annex 1 countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change were almost unchanged in 2006, falling by a mere 0.1 percent from 2005, the UNFCCC said.

From 2000 to 2006, though, emissions increased by 2.3 percent as activity revived in the former Soviet bloc economies.