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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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