I wrote last about what I expect will happen at the Paris climate change conference. But what should happen? First, the world must strongly underscore the need to keep the temperature rise below 2°Cel ...More

Environment Ministers from across the globe will strive this week to transform a draft that has conflicting proposals into a concrete climate pact to cap greenhouse gas emissions amid India’s assertio ...More

PARIS: India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for the overdraft they have drawn on the carbon space, Minister of State for Environment, Forests andClimate Change Prakash Javad ...More

India is here to ensure that rich countries pay back their debt for the overdraft they have drawn on the carbon space, an Indian minister said on Sunday. Minister of State for Environment, Forests an ...More

As the US rate hike looms, climate talks in Paris may weigh on India’s growth plans The US Federal Reserve is meeting on December 15-16 and it is generally expected that the interest rate hike, pushe ...More

On Saturday, after four years of negotiations that began in 2011, negotiators from 196 countries finally stamped their approval on the penultimate draft of 48 pages for a Paris agreement. It will now ...More

Ahead of key ministerial talks, India today said it is determined not to make the Paris climate meet like past summits where nations returned with “false optimism and fictitious hopes” and would ensur ...More

India's hardline position in global climate talks has made it a potential villain for Western nations as it warns that its greenhouse emissions, mostly from burning dirty coal, may keep rising past th ...More

If “nice weather” is your favourite ice-breaker when you meet someone, you better start thinking of something else to say. Thanks to climate change, the weather is no longer so nice in many places. Th ...More

PARIS: A final draft text, carrying all the contentious proposals from both the rich and the developing nations, of the climate agreement was released on Saturday. It will now be left for the minister ...More

The Paris Climate Change Conference is a unique opportunity for prime minister Narendra Modi to steer the world towards a low-carbon horizon. Modi is the key to not just a final agreement in Paris but ...More

The prime minister has scored a considerable success at the Paris Climate Conference with his announcement of a new international alliance to pool research into solar energy and spread new technology ...More

Many appreciate how Punjab and Haryana always have green fields no matter the amount of rain. They don’t acknowledge rumblings of the vault down under, and the carbon footprint that comes with pumping ...More

As global leaders discuss the impact of climate change in Paris, a binding solution on reduction of emission must emerge. India’s per capita emissions are a fraction of those in the West and per capit ...More

NEW DELHI: India's forest cover increased by 3,775 square km since 2013, taking the total to 701,673 sq. km, or 70.17 million hectares, equivalent to 21.34% of the country's geographical area. In the ...More

The senior government officials signed off on the draft text, running to 42 pages, minutes before a midday deadline. Senior officials from almost 200 nations approved a draft text of a U.N. climate d ...More

The current disastrous situation could also affect the national economy. Washington: The severe flooding in Chennai caused by torrential rains is a result of climate change and should be an eye opene ...More

The first week of negotiations at the climate change conference was ending the way it has always been — without any early breakthroughs, having seen ugly battles on contentious issues, and with the ho ...More

Less than a week into the crucial global climate change conference here, some 196 participating countries on Saturday reached a draft deal which seeks to address one of India's main demands that rich ...More

LE BOURGET, France: Negotiators from 195 nations delivered a blueprint on Saturday for a pact to save mankind from disastrous global warming, raising hopes that decades of arguments will finally end w ...More