Durban, Dec 11 (IANS): An impassioned speech by Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan capped the finale of the UN climate summit that ended here early Sunday with a Durban Package, after she warn ...More

It has been 17 years since 1994 when nations of the world agreed, in principle, to collectively address the threat of global warming (climate change for the cognoscenti). Since then, under the aegis o ...More

DURBAN: Around 2:30 in the morning on Saturday, the climate change conference was still generating drafts of possible decisions that the 195 participating countries could agree to and provide a Durb ...More

India not a deal-breaker: Jayanthi Natarajan U.N. climate talks on Saturday remained deadlocked as negotiations among 194 nations spilled over to an extra day amid wrangling over crucial issues, incl ...More

An impassioned speech by Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan capped the finale of the UN climate summit that ended here early Sunday with a Durban Package, after she warned that India ''will ...More

UN climate talks today okayed a roadmap for a 2015 accord that will, for the first time, legally force all major carbon polluters to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a landmark move that followed d ...More

In a recent James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, the villain hatches diabolical plots to corner a certain South American country’s fresh water resources. The Bond war is not over deposits of oil and go ...More

Climate change is about the divide between the rich and the poor. This we know. But what is often not so clear is that it is also about a divide between the media of the rich world and that of the poo ...More

The man known as Indonesia's "green governor" chases the roar of illegal chainsaws through plush jungles in his own Jeep. He goes door-to-door to tell families it's in their interest to keep trees sta ...More

Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world's poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling ...More

DURBAN: An effort to get membership forPalestine in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change got postponed with theG77+China group of 133 countries unable to come to a conclusion on the issue at ...More

DURBAN: Around 2:30 in the morning on Saturday, the climate change conference was still generating drafts of possible decisions that the 193 gathered countries agree to and provide a Durban mandate fo ...More

DURBAN: Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan got a surprise resounding standing ovation in a meeting of 195 countries when they got into a negotiating huddle at the middle of the night. They ...More

DURBAN: Small island states, which have a powerful moral presence in the climate talks, displayed the political inclinations towards the EU when they tried to block India's demand that the UN review w ...More

The hope for a just and legally-binding climate deal to keep the global temperature rise to 2°Celsius is waning as the U.N. Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP 17, reaches its cruc ...More

Women, particularly those living in the mountainous regions in developing countries, face disproportionately high risks to their livelihoods and health from global warming, says a U.N. report on Clima ...More

After China showed its willingness to agree to legally binding emission cuts, India too indicated today that it was “open” to all ideas at the climate talks but wanted more reassurances from the devel ...More

In Hard times governments are consumed by short-term problems. But this does not mean the archetypal long-term problem, climate change, has gone away. Science continues to support the case for curbi ...More

SIAN KA'AN, Mexico: A vast coral reef off southeastern Mexico attracts a rich array of fauna but some locals say they release the fish they catch to try to counter the effects of climate change. ...More

The developing countries appear to have got their way with the Green Climate Fund. The financial mechanism, which will channel funds to developing countries to tackle climate change, was stuck in a lo ...More