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  Thousands participate in People's Climate March in Peru

  World | December 11, 2014 13:55 IST

  Lima: Thousands of activists today marched through the streets of the Peruvian capital, demanding swift action on climate change and asking policymakers to make a 100 per cent shift to renewable energy by the year

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  India, China call for support to combat climate change

  India | December 09, 2014 21:31 IST

  New Delhi: Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua Tuesday called on developed countries to honour their promise of support to developing countries and provide funds for combating global climate change.In

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  India for early financing of Green Climate Fund

  World | December 08, 2014 12:02 IST

  Lima: India today insisted on early financing of the Green Climate Fund to reach the USD 100 billion target, as Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar arrived here to participate in crucial negotiations to reach a historic

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  West can't be spared for past 'sins': India on climate change

  World | December 05, 2014 8:41 IST

  Peru: Telling rich nations that they cannot be absolved of their past "sins", India has demanded that they should compensate developing nations for the effects their greenhouse gas emissions have had on climate.On the third

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  G20 Summit: G-20 leaders told they will be judged on fairness

  World | November 16, 2014 9:03 IST

  Brisbane: A coalition of rights groups wants G-20 leaders to take action to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in society, reduce inequality and address climate change.The Civil Society 20 group, or C-20, says

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  Brisbane airport bans corruption ad ahead of G20

  World | November 04, 2014 11:15 IST

  Canberra, Australia: A day after saying a billboard advertisement highlighting climate change was too political for world leaders gathering in the Australian city of Brisbane for a major economic summit, local airport authorities said Tuesday

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  UN panel adopts landmark climate report

  World | November 02, 2014 8:28 IST

  Copenhagen: The United Nations' expert panel on climate science has finished a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate system.The document, which

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  Adaptation, capacity building can address climate change: Javadekar

  Politics | October 27, 2014 19:46 IST

  New Delhi: Adaptation, capacity building and strengthening rural capacities are the government's foremost concerns for addressing the challenges to climate change, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said Monday."The government stood committed to the 'Clean India, green

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  'Nobody gets a pass' in tackling climate change: Barak Obama

  World | September 24, 2014 8:07 IST

  Washington: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced measures to help other countries fight climate change, saying that it is necessary to adopt an ambitious worldwide accord in which all countries are involved."We recognise our

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  UN chief appoints envoy on climate change

  World | July 15, 2014 9:28 IST

  United Nations: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday appointed former Irish president Mary Robinson as his special envoy on climate change."Building on her work on climate justice, she will emphasise the urgency from a people

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  Japan to offer green tech to India to cut carbon emissions

  World | June 18, 2014 6:30 IST

  Tokyo: Japan is set to offer its cutting-edge green technologies to India to combat climate change and help reduce emissions which would earn Japanese firms carbon credits, a report has said.Japan plans to sign an

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  Climate change unites fishermen in Kutch and Sundarbans

  India | March 04, 2014 11:34 IST

  Kolkata  : Separated geographically by hundreds of miles, the drylands of Kutch in Gujarat and the wetlands of Sundarbans are bound by similarities in the effect climate change has on the farmers and fishermen, research

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  India among top 10 countries affected by climate change

  India | May 24, 2014 8:06 IST

  New Delhi: Local climate change and pollution from the use of fossil fuels killed nearly 5 million people around the world in 2010, according to a report released earlier this year by climate change advocacy

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  Kerry lands in India, climate change, business on top

  India | June 23, 2013 18:25 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 23: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will urge fast-growing India on Sunday to curb emissions that contribute to global warming and ease barriers to U.S. business and investment in the world's

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  N India, Himalayas to be worst hit by climate change: report

  India | September 27, 2012 20:53 IST

  New Delhi, Sep 27: Northern parts of the country and the Himalayan region will be the worst hit by climate change in India and warming will be greater over land than sea, according to a

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  BASIC Nations 'Very Happy' With Cancun Texts: Ramesh

  World | December 11, 2010 13:30 IST

  Cancun, Dec 11 (PTI) India today said that the majoremerging economies were "very happy" with the two draft texts prepared by climate negotiators from almost 200 nations on the Kyoto Protocol and a long-term action

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  Climate change: Will the Cancun draft be adopted?

  World | December 11, 2010 12:03 IST

  Cancun:  Exhausted climate change negotiators laboured nonstop through the night and into their final day at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico on Friday, bargaining intensely over draft accords and seeking small, but

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  Leh Tragedy An Indicator Of Climate Change

  India | August 07, 2010 12:20 IST

  The two cloudbursts that lashed the Leh area of Ladakh with unprecedented fury on Thursday and Friday, could be another sign that rising temperatures in the cold desert were leading to climate change, experts said,

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  Obama Calls Up PM, Discusses Afghan Troop Surge, Climate Change

  India | December 01, 2009 14:25 IST

  US President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discussed with him the situation in Afghanistan and further steps required to bring peace and stability in the country. During the "brief

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  BJP, CPI(M) Slam Jairam's Ideas On Climate Change

  Politics | October 20, 2009 16:07 IST

  Amid reports that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has suggested a "radical change" in India's position on climate change, opposition parties BJP and CPI(M) today questioned whether the government was buckling under the pressure of the