Union Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said that India would have a new comprehensive climate legislation in the next budget session of Parliament. Speaking at an event o ...More

As countries negotiate a global climate agreement that will come into effect from 2020, there is a growing unease in Lima over the fact that there is little discussion on what is going to happen in th ...More

In the last few years or more, people have become more aware of clean and green technology, inviting many business opportunities to take shape in the realm. Many companies have taken ken interest in e ...More

Climate change talks, one would assume, would be driven mainly by environmental concerns. But going by the buzz in Lima, money seems to be an equally big, if not bigger, driver of the way the climate ...More

Amassive online protest is gathering steam to convince the State Bank of India (SBI) to renege on its billion-dollar loan to Adani to build a coal port near the Great Barrier Reef. Following public pr ...More

Lima: With the two-week annual climate summit here reaching its half-way mark, India on Sunday said that it does not support an ex-ante review of its intended nationally determined contributions as it ...More

Bengaluru, December 7: Adaptation to climate change needs to be distinguished from adaptation to current climate variability in Karnataka, said Bangalore Climate Change Initiative - Karnataka (BCC ...More

Following ambitious pledges by US and China to reduce emissions, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said it is 'not fair' for all countries to make the same level of contributions, given their different phases of d ...More

New Delhi: India is "open" to all discussions at the ongoing climate change talks in Lima and an attitude of confidence and optimism will guide its approach, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar sai ...More

Vulnerable communities need help to cope with impact The first Adaptation Gap Report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released here on Friday says even with emissions cuts, costs of ...More

Legaspi, Philippines: Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and sent waves crashing through coastal communities across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, creating more misery for millions following a barra ...More

Three recent bilateral agreements have the potential to dramatically change India’s relations with major powers and its role in the emerging global order, even though two of them do not involve New De ...More

Lima: With the two-week annual climate summit here reaching its half-way mark, India on Sunday said that it does not support an ex-ante review of its intended nationally determined contributions as it ...More

BCCI-K study says climate change to hit rice, maize, sorghum, red gram and ragi crops Bengaluru, December 7: Adaptation to climate change needs to be distinguished from adaptation to current clim ...More

What makes ministers of more than 190 countries come together once a year to quibble about words, phrases, jargons and sentences like a bunch of super enthusiastic grammar students? Climate Change ne ...More

BENGALURU: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said his government is taking steps to ensure that development does not come at the cost of environment. He was speaking after releasing a report on the State’s ...More

KOLKATA: Criticizing the interlinking of rivers (ILR) project of the Indian government, a leading geologist and environmental expert on Friday warned the move could disrupt rainfall pattern which coul ...More

LIMA: The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be twice or even three times higher than previously thought, the U.N.'s environment agency said Friday, and that assumes ...More

LIMA: India — driven by domestic obligation of poverty eradication and food security — has sought to bring out in the open its expectations from the global climate agreement and insisted that the coun ...More

LIMA: India has said that it will submit its plans for tackling climate change to the United Nations by June next year. "India will not make any INDC (intended nationally determined contributions) rel ...More