As negotiators at the climate change conference in Paris got down to business Tuesday after the exit of world leaders, there were unmistakable signals that India would get singled out over the next tw ...More

Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday refused to link the rain-ravaged situation in Tamil Nadu directly to climate change, saying it was natural calamity. “What has happened in Ch ...More

PARIS: A broad coalition of nations including India, river basin organizations, business and civil societies from across the globe on Wednesday announced Paris Pact on Water and Climate Change Adaptat ...More

Indians are likely to be among the worst affected victims of climate change, with average temperatures in north India potentially rising by 2.9 to 5 degree celsius by 2080. With 60 per cent of India’s ...More

In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, more than 150 governments submitted plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. Many observers are asking whether these re ...More

I have just returned after some fascinating interactions with policy makers, mediapersons, academics and members of NGOs and think tanks in the US and Europe. I was a member of an industry-led Indian ...More

“There is no Planet B,” read a few placards at the protests that have marked COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, where, if all goes well, 150 world leaders will hammer out a ...More

New Delhi: India needs over $1 trillion from now until 2030 to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change, which has already begun to impact on the lives of some 800 million people, or nearly 64% ...More

As the world debates climate change, students from PSGG Kanya Gurukulam School find out what is happening in our own Singanallur Lake Students of PSGG Kanya Gurukulam Higher Secondary School for Girl ...More

LE BOURGET (FRANCE)/NEW DELHI: India today asked the developed world to 'walk the talk' and honour its pre-2020 commitments in the fight against climate change and joined Brazil, China and South Afric ...More

As world leaders met in Paris on Monday to deal with climate change, a thick smog of pollution hung over the capitals of India and China. However, while Beijing sounded an alert for its citizens, it w ...More

US President Barack Obama said on Monday that India had to be able to grow and fight poverty, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to ensure development would be coupled with environmental prote ...More

The world can pursue an ambitious agreement that can meet both climate and development challenges of countries like India, the US has said as it underlined the need for getting India and China on boar ...More

President Barack Obama has said that parts of the global warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the countries that sign on, setting up a potential fight with Republicans a ...More

Rich nations that “powered their way to prosperity on fossil fuel” must shoulder the greatest burden in the fight against global warming, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in the Financial Times ahea ...More

NEW DELHI: Around $2.5 trillion will be required for meeting India's climate change actions in the next 15 years by using domestic resources and foreign financial commitments,Environment Minister Prak ...More

The world can pursue an ambitious agreement that can meet both climate and development challenges of countries like India, the US has said as it underlined the need for getting India and China on boar ...More

Prime Minister wants the $100 billion a year plan for assistance from the rich to poor nations by 2020 expedited. Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned the focus of the Paris Climate Conference to the ...More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday India did not create the climate change menace but was suffering its consequences while he delivered a stern message to affluent nations, saying “those with ...More

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday took on developed countries at the Paris climate summit and said climate change is the result of global warming that came from the prosperity and pro ...More