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| Big climate change show; need to change the system |
| Sudeshna Sen |
| The Economic Times , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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And, we're back. The big climate change show, five years after its last disastrous flop, is trying for yet another sequel starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Ban Ki Moon, guest starring any number of other ...More
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| ‘World running out of carbon allowance’ |
| Fiona Harvey |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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Latest study says we may use up the global carbon budget within 30 years
Children born today will see the world committed to dangerous and irreversible levels of climate change by their young adultho ...More
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| March for a safer, greener planet |
| Neha Das |
| Deccan Herald , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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Last year it was the massive cloudburst and deluge that engulfed and ravaged Uttarakhand and this year the unprecedented floods as an angry Jhelum broke the embankment to inundate Jammu and Kashmir, c ...More
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| Time for action on climate |
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| The Hindu , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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Anew report authored by Lord Nicholas Stern sounds as optimistic as his landmark 2006 study. It is possible to simultaneously prevent climate change and to augment economic growth, claims Better Growt ...More
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| Protesters stage Wall Street climate crisis sit-in |
| AP |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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A day after 100,000 people marched to warn that climate change is destroying the Earth, more than a thousand activists gathered on Monday in lower Manhattan’s financial district, chanting, carrying si ...More
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| India, China ignore UN climate change summit |
| Chetan Chauhan |
| The Hindustan Times , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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Five years after over 150 heads of state cobbled up a rickety climate deal that fell through, the one-day UN Climate Summit is another attempt of rich nations to push India and China – responsible for ...More
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| Heirs of Rockefeller to abandon fossil fuels |
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| The Economic Times , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is planning to announce Monday that its $860 million philanthropic organisation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the divestment mov ...More
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| Hundreds protest Wall Street over climate change |
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| The Economic Times , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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NEW YORK: Hundreds of protesters today accused Wall Street of financing climate change, marching through Manhattan's financial district dressed in blue and armed with placards.
The protest came a ...More
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| Munnar biodiversity conservation project gets started |
| IANS |
| Business Standard , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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A key biodiversity conservation project covering more than 3,000 sq km in Kerala's Idukki district has begun, according to a top Kerala government official.
Titled the Munnar landscape project, it ai ...More
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| China, US, India push world carbon emissions up |
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| The Times of India , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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WASHINGTON: Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gath ...More
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| Strong support for carbon pricing schemes: World Bank |
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| Live Mint , Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
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The World Bank said Monday that there is strong support from countries and businesses worldwide for carbon pricing schemes to cut greenhouse emissions. On the eve of the United Nations (UN) Climate ...More
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| Thousands protest climate change at worldwide rallies |
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| Business Standard , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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Activists mobilized in cities across the globe today for marches against climate change, with one of the biggest planned for New York, where celebrities, political leaders and tens of thousands of p ...More
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| Global warming poses threat to pipits of Nilgiris |
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| The Asian Age , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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The penguins of Antarctic are not the only victims of climate change. The pipits of Nilgiris in the Western Ghats in India are also suffering the ill effects of global warming and the consequent delet ...More
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| New techniques needed to save water resources |
| Kamaljit Singh Kamal |
| The Hindustan Times , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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With a view to saving water resources and get more yield of paddy, farmers should adopt techniques like direct seeding rice, laser leveler and system of rice intensification (SRI), said financial comm ...More
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| Barack Obama readies climate change push at UN summit |
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| The Times of India , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will seek to galvanize international support in the fight against climate change on Tuesday when he addresses the United Nations, with time running out on his hopes ...More
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| Rahul V Pisharody |
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| The New Indian Express , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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HYDERABAD: The city of Hyderabad and its outskirts once boasted of numerous lakes. For many years, several of these major lakes have been the nesting grounds of the variety of avian species from far o ...More
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| A Himalayan disaster awaits India |
| TNN |
| The Times of India , Monday, September 22, 2014 |
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KOLKATA: Many of the 200-odd glacial lakes in Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan are unstable and, in the event of an earthquake in the Himalayas, could burst and cause catastrophe in northern and eastern India ...More
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