Durban: Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures. Poor nations say wealthy countries became rich using coal, oil and gas and that they must be allowed to burn fossil fuels to escape poverty. Rich nations say major developing economies, such...
03:44 AM, Nov 29, 2011
United Nations: India has said discussion on climate change in the Security Council is a welcome step, but maintained that the 15-member body does not have tools to deal with the issue. Following a day-long debate in the Security Council, India's envoy to the United Nations (UN) Hardeep Singh Puri noted that peacekeeping missions, use of force and sanctions, which the UNSC can authorise, do not fit the problems of...
08:51 AM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Arctic is warming and like never before. Scientists say the Arctic Ocean will become ice-free in summer within the next 30 to 50 years. "The changes we are inducing now are quite dramatic and will change the livelihood for everyone one around," said Kim Holmen, Director, Norwegian Polar Institute. With an aim to travel to the Arctic to examine the science behind these claims CNN-IBN reach Svalbard,...
10:06 PM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: Amid a growing debate over environment and development, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said his government will "stay sensitive" towards green concerns but maintained that the pace of development should not suffer in the process. Observing that the environmental issues have "acquired a new urgency" in recent years, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to work with renewed energy to address green concerns. "While we stay sensitive...
10:22 PM, May 22, 2011
There is little in common between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sindhu, a village belle who lives 14,000 kilometres away in South India. Sindhu is a primary school dropout, who hardly ventures out of her hamlet. She spends most of her time in daily chores such as cooking, washing and keeping the family hog pen with a lone animal. She knows nothing of international power politics or cross-border...
02:32 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Bangkok: Japan's nuclear crisis will affect UN-led talks to fight climate change because it is prompting nations to rethink energy policies and investment costs, the European Union said on Sunday. But top EU climate negotiator Artur Runge-Metzger doubted the increased worries over nuclear will lead to a drop in nations' will to fight climate change or a lowering of existing pledges to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. "Whether it's going...
10:08 AM, Apr 05, 2011
Chicheley: To the quiet green solitude of an English country estate they retreated, to think the unthinkable. Scientists of earth, sea and sky, scholars of law, politics and philosophy: In three intense days cloistered behind Chicheley Hall's old brick walls, where British saboteurs once secretly trained, four dozen international thinkers pondered the planet's fate as it grows warmer, weighed the idea of reflecting the sun to cool the atmosphere, debated...
12:48 PM, Apr 04, 2011
New Delhi: From Rashtrapati Bhavan to small homes, luxury hotels to prominent landmarks, and top IT companies to shopping malls, millions of people across the country switched off their lights for an hour on Saturday night to observe 'Earth Hour', a global climate awareness initiative. India joined a record 133 countries to raise awareness about climate change through the movement for voluntary black out that began in Sydney in 2007...
11:37 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change has given its approval to the National Mission for a Green India, which is aimed at increasing forest cover in the country. "The Mission aims at increasing the quantity and quality of 10 million hectares of forest area, achieving an annual CO2 (carbon dioxide) sequestration of 50 to 60 million tonnes by 2020," the Environment Ministry said in a statement on...
10:04 PM, Feb 23, 2011
New Delhi: India played an "exceedingly helpful role" in the last climate summit and "we expect the same this year and beyond", UN climate chief Christiana Figueres said here on Saturday. "India represented its own interests and stood firm with other developing countries, and then was incredibly helpful in showing that it's mostly in the interest of developing countries to move forward" to combat global warming, said Figueres, executive secretary...
12:45 PM, Feb 05, 2011
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has just launched a new book on climate change, but is this more about an image make-over than going green? Meet Narendra Modi the author. Yes, this book on climate change is authored by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi - better known for his brand of hardline Hindutva and accused of allowing the terrible 2002 communal riots to happen. Modi's book - 'Convenient...
07:57 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's first book in English, on the issue of climate change, will be released in Ahmedabad. The 250-page book titled "Convenient Action: Gujarat's response to Challenges of Climate Change", published by Macmillan, will be released at a function presided over by former president A P J Abdul Kalam. R.K. Pachauri, director general, The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), will be the guest of honour at...
11:05 AM, Dec 21, 2010
Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's first book in English, on the issue of climate change, will be released in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. The 250-page book titled "Convenient Action: Gujarat's response to Challenges of Climate Change", published by Macmillan, will be released at a function presided over by former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. R.K. Pachauri, director general, The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), will be the guest of honour at...
08:15 PM, Dec 20, 2010
Los Angeles: On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic where no trees now grow, a newly unearthed mummified forest is giving researchers a peek into how plants reacted to ancient climate change. That knowledge will be key as scientists begin to tease out the impacts of global warming in the Arctic. The ancient forest found on Ellesmere Island, which lies north of the Arctic Circle in Canada, contained dried...
12:16 PM, Dec 17, 2010
New Delhi: Even as Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh feels that "India's interests had been fully protected" at the just-concluded climate summit in Cancun, environmentalists were left unimpressed. The UN climate summit reached the Cancun Agreement early on Saturday - but there was no mention of the extent to which industrialised countries would commit to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's commitment period ends. The agreement...
10:05 PM, Dec 12, 2010
Cancun: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has been praised for his role as a bridge-builder on contentious issues at the UN climate conference here which ended with a deal to curb global warming, including a $ 100 billion fund to help developing countries. The two-week long conference closed on Friday with Cancun Agreement, which marked some progress for finance, technology, adaptation and transparency, but isn't viewed as a decisive boost for...
07:11 PM, Dec 12, 2010
Washington: US has hailed the successful conclusion of the Cancun Climate Change Conference, saying the decisions reached there represent a balanced and significant step forward. US President Barack Obama called up his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon and congratulated him for his leadership and Mexico's excellent work chairing the Cancun conference to a successful conclusion that builds on the historic Copenhagen Accord and advances the effort to address the challenge of...
02:18 PM, Dec 12, 2010
Cancun: Climate change talks at Cancun are in their final phase and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has hinted at a possible victory with a new draft agreement. At the end of the two-week long hectic negotiations, there seems to be a broad consensus among 190 countries over a draft deal prepared by Mexico to tackle climate change. "Commitments have been made, compromises have been made. So I think it's a...
07:31 PM, Dec 11, 2010
Cancun: Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are struggling to finalise the outcome of the two-week Climate Change conference that has been enlivened by India's call for emission cuts by countries under an "appropriate legal form". Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had said on Thursday that all countries must take binding commitments under appropriate legal form to check emissions, which is seen as a departure from India's long-held position that it will...
06:48 PM, Dec 10, 2010
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As Environment Ministers from different countries fly into Cancun, the final round of talks has now started. And its like the world is sitting on ...
11:28 AM, Dec 10, 2010
