LE BOURGET: Global investors are increasingly pricing in the risk of climate change, US billionaire Michael Bloomberg told AFP on Saturday after taking charge of a task force to bring greater clarity ...More

NEW DELHI: Though Delhi's air quality is increasingly compared adversely with Beijing's, studies have found discrepancies in Chinese data with some evidence of 24-hour averages-usually the basis for c ...More

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 4: India’s forest and tree cover has increased by 5, 081 sq km and the country has created a carbon sink — a natural system that absorbs carbon dioxide — of 37 crore tonnes of C ...More

Paris: An Indian green body on Friday said that the floods in Chennai are an impact of climate change and the "unprecedented deluge" that the city has witnessed is a reminder of increasing frequency o ...More

The NGO urges India to pledge a total shift to renewable energy in India by 2050. Greenpeace, the NGO which has had a troubled relationship with the NDA government, on Friday urged Prime Minister Nar ...More

Towards the end of the hottest year since temperatures have been recorded, world leaders gathered in Paris for climate talks. While I was debating what to write about for this column, I saw two events ...More

A full-blown argument between the developed and developing countries over the application of principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) in theParis Agreement rocked the summit as i ...More

Paris: Global climate change talks in Paris moved into a new, tougher phase on Saturday as negotiators agreed to a draft accord that still leaves hundreds of points of dispute for ministers to resolve ...More

New Delhi: As many as 2.7 million trucks are expected to be taken off the road from 1 April when the government enforces a ban on trucks that are older than 15 years, according to vehicle registration ...More

AT A time when India has taken a firm stand at the Paris climate summit that developed nations cannot expect a still developing India to shoulder the burden of reducing emissions, Union Woman and Chil ...More

President Barack Obama defended his remarks about the threat posed by climate change, saying Republicans, including US presidential candidate Donald Trump, were "the only people" disputing the gravity ...More

Educational institutes from 15 countries including India, France, China and Britain have joined hands to train students to address the health impacts of climate change, the White House said today. ...More

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Redford added their star power on Friday to struggling efforts in Paris to forge an historic pact on global warming, as negotiators battled over a hotly disputed bluep ...More

LE BOURGET, FRANCE: India has expressed satisfaction with the first draft of the climate change accord released here with the new document retaining all its inputs as negotiators made "some progress" ...More

WASHINGTON: A pro-environment Sikh-American group today said that India should commit itself to reducing carbon emissions and work towards a meaningful agreement at the UN climate summit in Paris. "W ...More

China will upgrade its coal-fired power plants to reduce the discharge of pollutants by 60 percent before 2020, top officials said today. The move will save around 100 million tonnes of raw coal a ...More

A pro-environment Sikh American group today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should commit to reducing carbon emissions and to work towards a meaningful agreement at the UN climate summit in Par ...More

While prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over rising pollution and climate change at the Paris summit recently, his own governments in states are not serious about dealing with pollution. ...More

While world leaders in Paris discuss the climate, millions of residents in Chennai appear to be at the receiving end of climate change. Sheets of driving rain on Tuesday marooned a city already besie ...More

To many eyes, India looks like a roadblock to an effective world climate deal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demand for “climate justice”—meaning that rich nations should reduce their carbon emission ...More