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

AT Lima, in Peru, 196 countries have been trying to come up with an agreement on greenhouse gas emission cuts. The clear indication is, though, even if such an agreement is reached, the cuts prescribe ...More

New Delhi: “You know, humans do not understand that unless I am there to hold on to the soil, you will not be there either,” the tree tells the mountain. “Yes, but villagers demand a road, the politic ...More

LIMA: The optimism that marked the beginning of the Lima round of climate negotiations notwithstanding, negotiators from 190-odd countries failed to arrive at a decision on what could be included in t ...More

New draft text readied following objections from G-77 and China A new draft was ready for discussion late on Thursday night after the president of the Conference of Parties and Peru’s Environment Mi ...More

LONDON: Did you know that the genes that teaches a song bird to sing are nearly identical to those involved in human speech? Or that chickens and turkeys have experienced fewer gross genomic chang ...More

SHIMLA: Experts have concluded that the impact of climate change in the Himalayas is being felt on the lives of people and wildlife in the region. The observation was made in the final report of th ...More

LIMA: India appears to be signaling a willingness to engage on the idea classifying countries as developed and developing on lines other than the airtight categorization worked out in 1992. In his ...More

New Delhi: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has kicked off plans aimed at presenting the nation with its third forest policy—an overarching document for forest management that will see ...More

In recent times, there has been a massive climate change across the globe and activists across the globe have been campaigning to save earth. One among them is Vikrant Karnik, who has adopted a challe ...More

WITH just two more days remaining, the climate talks in Lima were nowhere close to resolving the numerous differences in positions of different countries, with negotiations dragging on without making ...More

Taking off from the documentary on former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2011 book, Convenient Action, Gujarat’s Response to Challenges of Climate ...More

LIMA: The Saarc bloc has finally emerged as a united force at the ongoing climate talks with ministers and key representatives of all eight member countries formally sealing the existence of south Asi ...More

Farm production in Himalayan states have drastically come down due to climate change, policy makers from the region today said as they sought immediate attention of government to address issues relate ...More

Next year monsoon might arrive and withdraw in MP a week later than it has been doing all these years. Climate change has led to shift in the normal dates of onset and withdrawal of monsoon in the sta ...More

India wants developed countries to fulfill their commitments under the Unite Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of providing resources to the developing countries to mitigate adverse impac ...More

After having argued frenetically till past midnight at the Lima climate talks, the negotiators went back to their hotels to catch a nap, bracing for the uncertainty that hung over climate change negot ...More

The UN has sought India's support on climate change as the international community enters the final year of negotiations for securing a meaningful and universal agreement on the pressing global issue ...More

LIMA: Climate change is expected to be an important component of the India-US engagement during President Obama's visit to India in January next year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack ...More

Union Environment and Forests Minister Prakash Javadekar stressed on India's commitment to protecting the interests of the poor at the international climate community meeting in Lima this week. The ...More