With advance security liaison (ASL) team for US President Barack Obama’s trip, as the chief guest of 2015 Republic Day parade, arriving from Washington next week, the Narendra Modi government has star ...More

GUWAHATI, Dec 11 – The Department of Transport on Wednesday held the inaugural function cum awareness programme with regard to the newly-introduced rule regarding securing Pollution Under Control Cert ...More

Terming India as a "very important player" in the climate change negotiations, the US has said it is not involved in any agreement on climate with India ahead of President Obama's Republic Day visit t ...More

Hundreds of students from the four cities of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad are coming together to document how climate change is impacting trees, birds and butterflies around them in urban area ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore will serve as case studies for a Norwegian research project to study climate change impacts on Indian cities, a statement said Wednesday. The project, Copin ...More

BENGALURU: The Research Council of Norway has launched a new project titled ‘CLIMATRANS - Coping with Climate: Assessing Transport Sector Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for In ...More

LIMA, PERU: Diplomats from 196 countries are closing in on the framework of a potentially historic deal that would for the first time commit every nation in the world to cutting its planet-warming fos ...More

New Delhi: India on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to “protecting the interests of the poor” at the Lima Climate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out of ...More

Diplomats from 196 countries are closing in on the framework of a potentially historic deal that would for the first time commit every nation in the world to cutting its planet-warming fossil fuel emi ...More

A 13-year decline in vegetation in the eastern and southeastern Amazon has been linked to a decade-long rainfall decline in the region, finds a NASA-funded study. The findings suggest that the potent ...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

Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar has said the Narendra Modi-led government in New Delhi is pursuing action-oriented policies to ensure rapid development ...More

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged countries attending a climate conference in Peru's capital Lima for a "balanced, well-structured and coherent draft text" of an agreement envisaged for 2015. ...More

India today strongly pitched for finance and technology for developing nations from developed countries to deal with challenges posed by climate change, amidst intense negotiations here to agree on a ...More

Underlining that there is "no trade-off" between climate action and robust economy, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said India will need to go further than reducing energy intensity as part of action on climate ...More

Lima (Peru): Diplomats from 196 countries are closing in on the framework of a potentially historic deal that would for the first time commit every nation in the world to cutting its planet-warming fo ...More

LIMA: The SAARC group has finally come as a joint force at the ongoing climate talks with ministers and key representatives of all eight member countries formally sealing the existence of the South As ...More

New Delhi, Dec. 10: India has drawn flak from sections of environmental groups for opposing an international review of its statement of intended actions to curb growth of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emis ...More

The gloves came off at the Lima climate change talks on Tuesday. Developed countries came together to demand that references to developing countries’ priority of eradicating poverty and achieving sust ...More

Concern as new draft text for talks is too mitigation-centric While there is much jubilation that on Tuesday fresh commitments to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) have taken it nearly to the $10-billion ...More