INDCs, or Intended Nationally-Determined Contributions, a relatively new addition to the encyclopedia of acronyms at climate talks, has been occupying most of the negotiating space at Lima as the firs ...More

“India will not take a U-turn in the climate change negotiations, like it did at Copenhagen in 2009,” said the Union environment, forests and climate change minister, Prakash Javadekar, speaking on th ...More

The first Adaptation Gap Report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released on Friday morning here, says that even with emissions cuts, climate change adaptation costs are likely to hi ...More

LIMA (PERU): India today contested a landmark UN report that said a whopping $650 billion was spent for projects aimed at adaptation and emissions reduction between 2011-2012. The report was prese ...More

India today contested a landmark UN report that said a whopping USD 650 billion was spent for projects aimed at adaptation and emissions reduction between 2011-2012. The report was presented at the U ...More

Reinforcing the enormity of the challenge in dealing with climate change, a new UN report has said that even if greenhouse gas emissions were cut in the most optimistic manner from now on, the costs o ...More

As a result of various Crop Development Schemes being implemented by Government of India through State Governments, production of agricultural crops has been generally increasing except in the years o ...More

Australia will continue to directly pay for climate change mitigation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a United Nations' Green Climate Fund desig ...More

Yuppies are leaving behind cushy careers for a life in organic farming Leaving his corporate job at IBM a few years ago, Manish Tiwari (aged 39) started an organic farm near Bhopal. Similarly, Manu ...More

With global warming leading to increased traffic to a vulnerable Arctic, the US Coast Guard is proposing a 4.6-mile (7-kilometer) wide shipping route through the Bering Strait to try to protect the re ...More

At multiple closed-door meetings at Lima, India demanded that the issue of adaptation be pegged at legal parity with the concerns of emission reduction targets in the 2015 climate change agreement, to ...More

India today ruled out any immediate timeline to cap its greenhouse gas emissions and iterated its long-standing demand that the developed countries should clear atmospheric space so that India and oth ...More

Dr. Arun Majumdar, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay alumni is among four eminent scientists chosen to serve as US Science Envoys beginning in January, 2015. Majumdar, a professor at Stanford ...More

LIMA (Peru), Dec 5: The UN has estimated that there was up to USD 650 bn in financing for projects aimed at adaptation and emission reduction between 2011-2012. Additional Economic Adviser Ministry o ...More

Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar has said that clean air, clean energy and clean power balanced with growth were the priorities for India in its mission to com ...More

India is in sharp focus during the ongoing negotiations at the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru. While India stuck to its guns during the talks and insisted that the new regime under the glo ...More

Lima, Dec 4 (IANS/EFE) Participants at the 20th UN Climate Change Conference (COP20) have discussed the funding for efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate change on the third day of the summit. ...More

PERU: The UN has estimated that there was up to $650 billion in financing for projects aimed at adaptation and emission reduction between 2011-2012. Additional Economic Adviser Ministry of Finance ...More

State doesn’t have the will to regulate oil extraction, says activist The first Amazonian host of the U.N. climate change conference is ignoring the real drivers of large-scale deforestation and fail ...More

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is set to up its game on climate change and get more ambitious with the national energy efficiency mission. The power ministry plans to expand the mis ...More