NEW DELHI: The Copenhagen Accord arrived at during the climate summit will instantly forgive the industrialised countries’ historical responsibility for climate change, eliminate the distinction betwe ...More

United Nations’ top climate change czar Dr Rajendra Pachauri has been accused of making a “fortune” from his links with ''carbon trading'' companies dependent on the world body’s policy recommendati ...More

A weak deal plus a model with US and India role JAYANTA BASU IN COPENHAGEN AND G.S. MUDUR IN NEW DELHI NATURE’S REMINDER: From the climate storm in Copenhagen, Barack Obama landed in a blizzard ...More

COPENHAGEN: The official name is the ‘Copenhagen Accord.’ Depending on whom you ask, it’s defined as anything from a “reference document” to the precursor of a “legally binding treaty.” After a storm ...More

COPENHAGEN: The following are the broad contours of the accord reached by the United States, China, India, Brazil, South Africa and several other countries at the U.N. climate talks — along with curre ...More

COPENHAGEN, Dec 19 – The climate change conference today failed to adopt a binding treaty on emission cuts and as a face saver decided to “take note” of a US-brokered deal with India and three other e ...More

Obama said under the agreement, each country also will list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts. A US-brokered deal with four emerging economies, including ...More

COPENHAGEN: Together, they have more than 40 per cent of the world’s population and are responsible for 10 per cent of the world’s economy. Now, they are finally leveraging their considerable power on ...More

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday announced to institute awards for promotion of ‘energy conservation buildings’ and setting up of green energy and energy conservation ...More

COPENHAGEN: World leaders may have given up on saving the planet from climate change, at the UN talks here on Friday. Instead, they are negotiating a declaration which could be aimed at saving face. ...More

Venezuela, Bolivia, Sudan and Tuvalu objected to a Copenhagen accord supported by almost all other countries around the world, and held up its adoption the morning after the climate summit was schedul ...More

Businesses and investment analysts cautiously welcomed a climate deal struck in Copenhagen on Friday, but complained that it was unclear how its commitments would be translated into law. The private ...More

US and emerging economies including India struck a face-saving deal to tackle global warming, but the pact ran into rough weather with several developing countries opposing it, saying it was legally n ...More

Emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen climate change summit will still lead to global temperatures rising by an average of 3C, media claimed today quoting a confidential UN analysis. W ...More

With last-minute negotiations on to rescue the Copenhagen climate summit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday pushed for 'a balanced and equitable outcome' and asked the world not to abandon the Kyot ...More

Copenhagen, December 18 With no signs of a possible deal at the Climate Summit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that future negotiations on tackling the menace should be based ...More

U.S. President Barack Obama forged a climate deal with emerging economic powers on Friday, breaking a deadlock at U.N.-led talks, but said the world still had "much further to go" in the fight against ...More

COPENHAGEN, Dec 18 – No headway was made in climate talks here with the US and China refusing to budge from their positions on emission cuts as negotiators struggled today to strike a face-saving deal ...More

As the US and BASIC countries struck a deal on climate change, President Barack Obama on Friday lauded India for setting forth ''very significant mitigation'' efforts and for voluntarily saying that i ...More

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has asked the US and China not to let other countries down ''on this historic occasion'' of the climate summit in Copenhagen and urged them to not ...More