New Delhi, Oct. 2 (Reuters): India has promised to make its economy more energy efficient and cut the carbon produced per unit of GDP growth by 33-35 per cent by 2030 from 2005 levels, its contributio ...More

The Indian government has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity – the ratio between gross emissions and a country’s GDP at a particular point in time – by 33-35% of its 2005 levels by ...More

India on Friday pledged to cut its emission levels by 33-35 percent over the next 15 years in what it has termed as a fair and balanced commitment to protect the environment, based also on its own age ...More

The Union Environment Ministry on Thursday night submitted the country’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) in the run up to the Paris climate summit in December, which lays out the ...More

For all the suspense around India’s climate action plan for 2030, there were hardly any surprises when it was finally revealed on Thursday night. The action plan, called Intended Nationally Determined ...More

BERLIN: India will on Thursday submit its post-2020 'climate action plan' to a UN body in Bonn, specifying what the country will do to fight the threat of climate change. Hours after its submission ...More

The Compensatory Afforestation Bill has raised significant money, which must be used to restore existing forests rather than on artificial plantations On Parliament’s wooden desks, a Bill is knocking ...More

CHAMOLI: Camera trap images and droppings have revealed that there are healthy musk deer roaming the Kedarnath Musk Deer Sanctuary. This comes as huge relief, as this species of deer is rare and endan ...More

BERLIN: India will on Thursday submit its post-2020 'climate action plan' to a UN body in Bonn, specifying what the country will do to fight the threat of climate change. Hours after its submission wi ...More

The country’s annual emissions will not go beyond 10 tonnes per capita: Javadekar “Developing countries have the right to develop. They need carbon space… developed countries have to vacate the space ...More

Working with Coal Ministry towards this end, says Environment Minister NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 27: The Centre is working on a mechanism that will augment coal mining without damaging the environment, ...More

Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodylian species over millions of years, a new study has found. Crocodylians include present-day species of ...More

NEW DELHI: About two decades ago, it was commonplace to see vultures in the Lutyens' zone. Strange as it may seem but they were routinely seen atop trees on the Aurangzeb road-now Dr APJ Abdul Kalam r ...More

KOCHI: The direct impact of global climate change is at our doorstep,it seems. According to a World Bank report, Kochi is the 14th city in the World, relative to city GDP, in ‘most at risk’ category b ...More

Washington: Global warming and evolution are reshaping the bodies of some American bumblebees, a new study finds. The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one-quarter shorte ...More

WASHINGTON: The United States and China have reached an agreement to limit greenhouse gases with a commitment by China to introduce a cap-and-trade system for its polluting industries. The deal, which ...More

The eighth edition of the environment and wildlife film festival, CMS Vatavaran, beginning here on October 9, will focus on conservation of water bodies, organisers said on Monday. Spanning five da ...More

The sharp rise in extreme weather events, like the floods in Uttarakhand and Jammu & Kashmir, cannot just be attributed to human factors. Climate change has in fact increased the number and severity o ...More

BENGALURU:There is ample room for collaborations with the state government in terms of addressing issues, provided the state takes the first step, said Andrea Christ, Deputy Consul General of the Germ ...More

NEW DELHI: India's nationally determined contributions to mitigate climate change are likely to be unveiled on October 1 and will promote renewable energy, enhanced energy efficiency, less carbon inte ...More