CANCUN: As the high-level segment of the U.N. climate change conference began here on Tuesday, the second period of commitment to the Kyoto Protocol (KP) has become a contentious issue. After Japan's ...More

As the climate change conference here winds down, India is coming under immense pressure to accept a "legally binding agreement" on climate change, which is causing rift within developing countries. ...More

India will resist any attempt to bring black carbon within the ambit of the UN framework convention on climate change negotiations, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has underlined. "We will resist ...More

CANCUN: Amidst the grim mood at Cancun, there is one good news, or at least partial good news: the over-arching architecture of a global green technology sharing and development mechanism has been f ...More

NEW DELHI: Unexplained delay in environment ministry's clearance has resulted in two Members of Parliament declining to attend the ongoing climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico. Both CPM MP Si ...More

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the progress at the climate conference here have been "insufficient", warning that the absence of a "breakthrough" would condemn the lives of billions of peop ...More

CANCUN: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh's big gambit at Cancun has flopped, with his plan to pitch India as the dealmaker between the rich and the poor countries falling through on Sunday. The thre ...More

CANCUN: The climate talks at Cancun hit a bad logjam on Monday night with Japan and AOSIS (Association of Small Island Countries) demanding that India and other developing countries get bound into i ...More

CANCUN: The Wikileaks cablegate hit the climate talks at Cancun as well with leaked documents showing how the US and EU had attempted to manipulate talks in favour of the Copenhagen Accord by offering ...More

Srinagar, December 7 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has called for all efforts for massive aforestation, terming it important for the maintenance of ecology and natural beauty of the state. Addressing ...More

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal to government ministers to take serious steps to curb global warming as he opened the high-level round of a climate change summit Tuesday in ...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. N ...More

CANCUN (Mexico): Most of the world's 500 million small farmers who own two hectares or less of land use traditional cropping methods which are more eco-friendly. They end up taking carbon dioxide fr ...More

In a world with twice as much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, plants could grow larger and create a cooling effect on a warming globe, but could not halt or reverse climate change, NASA has said. O ...More

CANCUN (Mexico): Most of the world's 500 million small farmers who own two hectares or less of land use traditional cropping methods which are more eco-friendly. They end up taking carbon dioxide fr ...More

From the methane-laden tundra of the far north to the depths of the oceans, world governments need to spend more on cutting-edge research to "get a handle" on how much and how quickly the world wi ...More

On the first day of the 16th annual climate change conference that began in Cancun on Monday, it became clear that the countries had made little progress from the failed previous meet in Copenhagen, b ...More

Jammu, November 29 The Government has decided to formulate comprehensive conservation projects for twin lakes of Mansar and Surinsar with a special focus on the restoration of the habitats and expans ...More

China has said it expects the ongoing UN climate change conference at Cancun in Mexico to "bear real fruits" on key issues like mitigation, adaptation, financial support and technology transfer in ord ...More

A new round of UN climate talks opens on Monday with almost 200 nations meeting in Mexico in hopes of clinching an agreement on a narrow range of crunch issues dividing rich and emerging economies. T ...More