LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi on Wednesday shrugged off suggestions that the world's biggest crude exporter might cut production to reverse the deepest price slump in years, s ...More

Showing no signs of softening its stance at the UN’s climate change conference in Lima, Peru, India continued to toe the line set out by the former UPA Government with Prakash Javadekar, Minister for ...More

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am delighted to be in this historic and beautiful city of Lima. Let me first of all express my heartfelt thanks to the Government and people ...More

“Water yes, Oil No”, said a banner at the march for climate in Lima on Wednesday, indicative of the life and death battles over natural resources for the indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon and o ...More

LIMA: Environmental group Greenpeace apologized Wednesday after Peru accused it of damaging a millenia-old archaeological site when its activists displayed a protest banner there calling for action on ...More

In the upcoming talks with the US delegation arriving in New Delhi to broker a climate deal, India is likely to offer 2035-2050 time frame as peaking year for carbon emission. The deal is likely to ...More

The year 2015 will be our generation’s greatest opportunity to move the world toward sustainable development. Three high-level negotiations between July and December can reshape the global development ...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

Head of the U.S. delegation Todd Stern on Wednesday clarified that while there were expectations of a useful visit when President Barack Obama visits India in January, no climate deal is expected on t ...More

LIMA: Opposing one of the key components of the negotiations which is being strongly pushed by all European Union (EU) countries and civil society, India on Tuesday categorically told the climate conf ...More

The United States on Thursday said it would like to work more closely with India on issues of climate change but ruled out a ‘China-like’ bilateral deal with New Delhi during President Barack Obama’s ...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: A day before meeting Indian environment minister Prakash Javadekar for yet another round of bilateral meeting here on sideline of the climate conference, the US special envoy for climate change ...More

At the Lima climate talks the game plan of the rich countries is crys tal clear. Their aim is to rewrite the climate agreement -the agreement that had created two catego ries of countries (also called ...More

LIMA: India seems to have fallen behind its BASIC partners in its engagement at the current round of climate talks in Lima. Though the BASIC—Brazil, South Africa, India, and China—continue to co-ordin ...More

VIJAYAWADA : Farmers in Tullur mandal in Guntur district, particularly those who own lands along the Krishna river bank, are busy making preparations to hold a protest in case the 14-member capital co ...More

Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar held bilateral meeting with Mr. Xie Zhenhua, Vice-Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission, China in Lima, a day ...More

There is need for India to catch up on carbon efficiency developments, according to a climate change performance report. "National experts in India downgraded their country, which resulted in a drop ...More

As the high-level segment of the Lima climate talks began on Tuesday, with ministers expected to make generic, encouraging and positive statements in the public domain, negotiators pored over new nego ...More

A new report from the World Resources Institute (WRI) on equity and finance says by focusing on the capabilities of countries and communities, there can be progress on the equity concerns that have im ...More