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Pakistan unlikely to make headway on water issue with India. |
Sandeep Dikshit | New Delhi |
The Hindu , Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
India believes that Pakistan’s bid to hoist the water issue on the bilateral agenda would be misplaced because the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) has stood the test of time in resolving differences. IWT Com ...More
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Local climate change film launched to raise awareness. |
CAN | Taipei |
Taiwan News , Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
A locally produced documentary designed to warn people of the threats climate change poses to Taiwan and the world made its debut Monday in Taipei after hundreds of audience members shouted, "Save the ...More
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Global warming both bane and boon for world's poor. |
ANI | Washington |
The Hindu , Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
A new study by researchers at Stanford University, US, has determined that global warming may have an adverse impact on food prices and hunger in poor populations of the world, while others would be h ...More
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Jairam bid to rework stand on climate? |
Nitin Sethi |
The Times of India , Monday, February 22, 2010 |
NEW DELHI: Within a couple of days of the Prime Minister's Office announcing that Shyam Saran, PM's special envoy on climate change, was quitting, there's turmoil in the Indian climate team.
Indian n ...More
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Climate Change and Open Science. |
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The Wall Street Journal , Monday, February 22, 2010 |
'Unequivocal." That's quite a claim in this skeptical era, so it's been enlightening to watch the unraveling of the absolute certainty of global warming caused by man. Now even authors of the 2007 Uni ...More
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NGO stresses need for environmental strategy. |
Wassim Mroueh | Beirut |
The Daily Star , Monday, February 22, 2010 |
The Environment Ministry has a comprehensive action plan but still lacks a clear environmental strategy that can be adopted by the government and upheld by other ministries, an NGO has warned.
The ...More
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Victorian farmers sceptical about climate change. |
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ABC Online , Monday, February 22, 2010 |
More than half of Victoria's farmers don't believe that humans are responsible for climate change.
The results of a survey, commissioned by the state's Department of Primary Industries, also shows th ...More
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Another key climate panel member quits |
Kalyan Ray |
Deccan Herald , Sunday, February 21, 2010 |
Within a day of Shyam Saran’s departure from the Prime Minister’s office, Ambassador Chandrasekhar Dasgupta, another key member of India’s climate change negotiation team for more than a decade, has d ...More
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Jairam in complete control of climate policy now |
B S Arun |
Deccan Herald , Sunday, February 21, 2010 |
With veteran diplomat Shyam Saran quitting his job as the prime minister’s special envoy on climate change, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh will now be in complete co ...More
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Climate change negotiating team set for revamp |
Urmi A Goswami |
The Economic Times , Sunday, February 21, 2010 |
NEW DELHI: The Indian climate change negotiating team may well be set for a revamp with Prime Minister's Special Envoy Shyam Saran's exit from the PMO. Sources indicated that at least one senior negot ...More
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Eco project to protect native wildlife. |
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ABC News , Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
A new wildlife corridor has been announced to protect plants and animals from the coast of South Australia to the top of the Northern Territory.
The Trans-Australia Eco Link will extend 3,500 kilom ...More
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$450 million World Bank loan for Himachal Pradesh |
Sujay Mehdudia |
The Hindu , Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
NEW DELHI: The World Bank has agreed in principle to give a $450-million loan to Himachal Pradesh to supplement the State Government’s efforts for sustainable environmental growth and keeping in view ...More
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How will the Maldives fight climate change? |
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The Times of India , Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
The Maldives, which fears being swamped by rising seas as the planet heats up, says major economies should toughen their curbs of greenhouse gas emissions blamed for causing global warming.
The ch ...More
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Shyam Saran quits in changed policy climate. |
Siddharth Varadarajan | New Delhi |
The Hindu , Saturday, February 20, 2010 |
Rumours of his unhappiness and impending departure had been swirling around the Capital even before last December’s Copenhagen summit but Shyam Saran finally decided to call it quits on Friday. The Sp ...More
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UN climate official quits |
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The Telegraph , Friday, February 19, 2010 |
Amsterdam, Feb. 18 (AP): Top UN climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press today that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success t ...More
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UN climate chief to quit, join KPMG |
Michael Szabo and Gerard Wynn / Reuters |
Live Mint , Friday, February 19, 2010 |
United Nations (UN) climate chief Yvo de Boer will step down to join a consultancy group as an adviser, he said on Thursday, two months after a Copenhagen summit failed to support a legally binding cl ...More
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Sea life hit by climate change. |
Clive Cookson. |
Financial Times , Friday, February 19, 2010 |
Climate change is having a big impact on life in the oceans around Antarctica, the AAAS annual meeting in San Diego heard yesterday.
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life , an investigation started i ...More
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