In a step-back from what it once presented as "settled science," the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a review of its embattled climate change panel, whose credibility has been tarnishe ...More

Awareness on measures to check global warming and climate change should be initiated at the grassroots level, said WWF State director Renjan Mathew Varghese. He was inaugurating an awareness campai ...More

Governments reached agreement today to strengthen the global response to the impacts of climate change. At the close of a United Nations Environment Programme gathering in Indonesia, UNEP Executiv ...More

The aim of the so-called 'seasonal tariff' is to preserve water supplies in the dry summer months. From June customers in Hampshire, parts of West Sussex and Medway in Kent will have new meters i ...More

New Delhi: In a move to encourage states to conserve forests, better regulate water resources and spur innovation and research, the 13th Finance Commission has recommended approximately Rs10,000 crore ...More

Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of global warming, if they are to persuade an increasingly sceptical public ...More

The Economic Survey for 2009-10 presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament on Thursday has revealed that the Government is engaged in preparing the National Communication II (NATCOM ...More

In a major thrust to the development and harnessing of clean and renewable sources of energy, the government on Friday proposed the creation of a special fund to finance research and development in ...More

THE newly-formed climate change department of the Gujarat government, the first such department in Asia and sixth in the world, has received its first budgetary allocation. The state governmen ...More

Mass migration northwards to new towns in Scotland, Wales and northeast England may be needed to cope with climate change and water shortages in the South East, according to an apocalyptic vision set ...More

The 11th Special session of the governing council/ global ministerial environment forum Bali, Indonesia 24-26th February 2010 was opened by the President of Indonesia Dr.H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono th ...More

Scottish government target to reduce emissions by 42% by 2020 will be hard to meet before a global deal is in place, experts have warned. The Committee on Climate Change said it was "feasible but d ...More

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [official website] announced [press release, PDF] Tuesday that another round of formal climate talks will be held April 9-11 in Bonn, Germany to ...More

Since the Copenha¬gen summit ended two months ago wi¬thout producing a binding multilateral ag¬reement, there have been further setbacks to the agenda of combating climate change, both globally and in ...More

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has asked the officials gathered at the environment ministerial meeting in Bali to reject attempts by climate skeptics who question the existence of climate change especially afte ...More

Many Americans are skeptical about global warming and that makes it harder to get a bill through Congress. "My personal leanings are that it's more cyclical than a permanent trend," said Jimmy Prit ...More

The largest global environmental gathering since the Copenhagen climate change summit last year is now being held in Bali, where ministers from over 100 countries are convening together with scientist ...More

A new study by Oxfam India and the Centre for Budget and Government Accountability (CBGA) has called for a National Adaptation Fund to provide dedicated financial resources to sectors vulnerable to cl ...More

In a bid to sensitise people about climate change, Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC), the apex body of the Department of Environment & Forest, organised a state-level conference on Tuesday in Gandhinag ...More

India’s claim on spending for adapting to climate change is inflated, a report by a non-government organisation (NGO) said on Tuesday. The Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change had said the Cen ...More