UN chief Ban Ki-moon applauded a global climate deal signed in Lima today and urged countries to commit to tough negotiations taking place in Paris next year. Following marathon talks in Lima, UN ...More

Due to take effect in 2020, it would bind all nations into a single arena for the first time LIMA UN members pressed ahead on Sunday with a vision for a historic pact to defeat climate change by ad ...More

New Delhi, Dec. 14: India expressed its satisfaction today with the outcome of the UN climate change talks in Lima, Peru, but environmental groups have warned that disagreements and uncertainty there ...More

After lengthy negotiations, more than 190 countries at the climate conference in Lima agreed on a minimalist text. A look at what was achieved, and what was not. What should count as ‘contributions’ ...More

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As many as 100 experts from the SAARC countries will attend the two- day international seminar on climate change and environmental restoration to be held here from Monday. Chief ...More

LIMA: UN member countries agreed on Sunday on a format for national pledges on curbing Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions to be introduced next year. The pledges: * Should be submitted by th ...More

Negotiators on Sunday adopted a compromise draft for national pledges to cut global carbon emissions at the marathon UN climate talks here that addressed all of India’s concerns and paved the way for ...More

Negotiators today adopted a compromise draft for national pledges to cut global carbon emissions at marathon UN climate talks here. India said it (the deal) addressed all of its concerns and paved way ...More

Over a day behind schedule, the world set the stage for a new climate treaty by agreeing to the Lima Call for Climate Action on Sunday, which was slammed by NGOs and people’s movements. The United N ...More

HENNAI: Even as negotiators from across the globe reached a climate change agreement in talks in Peru on Sunday, environmental activists here are disappointed. They term it yet another failure by gove ...More

LIMA: A compromise draft on national pledges to cut global carbon emissions saved the UN climate talks from a collapse and kept hopes alive for a global deal in Paris next year to combat climate chang ...More

India’s biggest gain at the Lima climate change conference was renewed solidarity among the 134-country developing economies group, still termed G77, and China. And, successful strategising by the Lik ...More

UNFCCC retreated from high-minded rhetoric to familiar nit-picking and finger-pointing LIMA Four years ago, the world's nations vowed to forge a pact by the end of 2015 that would tame climate ch ...More

The Lima climate talks have ended inconclusively, making the road to Paris in December 2015 that much more difficult. The bilateral accord signed between the US and China last month had certainly gene ...More

The United Nations General Assembly last week declared June 21 as the annual ‘International Day of Yoga’, following an appeal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi three months ago. This small but interes ...More

It was a demand of many of the roughly 8,000 people, including Andean and Amazon natives who say they already feel global warming’s impact, who marched through downtown Lima demanding ‘climate justice ...More

KOCHI: The key aspects of India’s Energy Security are expanding people’s access to energy and having reliable supply of electricity, said Tom Cutler, former director of the Office of European and Asia ...More

The Sacred Heart parish in Yerawada will welcome a ‘green’ Santa this Christmas as part of its eco-friendly campaign. The parish, which is the first among 34 parishes and centres under the Diocese of ...More

The Sacred Heart parish in Yerawada will welcome a ‘green’ Santa this Christmas as part of its eco-friendly campaign. The parish, which is the first among 34 parishes and centres under the Diocese of ...More

NEW DELHI: The UN Climate talks in Lima that successfully ended on Sunday addressed the concerns of developing countries like India and gave enough space to the developing world to grow, Environment M ...More