Glaciers are melting, sea level is rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is struggling for survival. This has been caused partly by anthropogenic global warming. The fight against climate ...More

India on Thursday said “sustained pressure” applied by the developing countries had led to the resumption of the two-track climate negotiations here, hours after the process appeared floundering a ...More

With consensus eluding climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Copenhagen late last night with a message to preserve the areas of consensus on mitigation actions and finances and trans ...More

Copenhagen: Two of the world’s two most radical Presidents on Wednesday shook up the Copenhagen climate change summit by blaming climate change squarely on Capitalism and demanding billions of dollars ...More

The battle to cut emissions has spawned a different kind of cut — in the number of activists allowed entry. Outside Bella Centre, the venue of the climate talks to reduce earth-warming greenhouse g ...More

COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 – Regretting the absence of an agreed text just a day ahead of the Summit level talks at the climate change meet here, India has said the entire process of negotiations have been “v ...More

Eight millennium development goals (MDGs) have been adopted by the international community as a framework for development activities in over 190 countries during the Millennium Summit held on Septembe ...More

COPENHAGEN, Dec 16 – Negotiations to hammer out an “equitable and fair” deal on climate change were deadlocked today with countries refusing to budge from their positions on sticky issues like emissio ...More

COPENHAGEN: About a thousand protesters braved the snow flurries and police truncheons here, while activists in New Delhi besieged the U.S. embassy there with phone calls and emails calling for leader ...More

CHENNAI: Mayor M. Subramanian, currently attending the United Nations Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, may come back with a bagful of ideas for possible implementation in the city. Speaking ...More

Seeking a constructive approach to move forward in the global efforts to combat climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said India is willing to do more provided there are ''credib ...More

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has expressed plans to increase Japan's aid to developing countries in curbing greenhouse gas emissions from the roughly $9 billion already promised, while s ...More

Regretting the absence of an agreed text just a day ahead of the Summit level talks at the climate change meet, India has said the entire process of negotiations have been ''very badly handled'' but ...More

Merkel said she was worried that time was running out for the participating nations to reach a globally binding agreement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed concern over the lack of progr ...More

Hopes for an accord on climate change dwindled on Wednesday as host Denmark unilaterally announced it would present two texts before world leaders who arrive here for the last phase of the conference. ...More

The developing countries fear that the mysterious draft prepared by Denmark would be sprung upon hours before the high-level segment of climate talks begins, making it difficult for any world leader t ...More

Keen to hammer out a successful deal at the Copenhagen climate change summit, US President Barack Obama on Thursday reached out to his Brazilian counterpart Lula Da Silva and Tillman Thomas Prime Mini ...More

Ahead of leaving for Copenhagen later this week, US President Barack Obama held a conference call with leaders of Britain, France and Germany, besides calling Bangladeshi and Ethiopian Prime Ministe ...More

Against the backdrop of deepening rifts between developed and developing countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to Copenhagen on Thursday to renew India's pitch for 'a balanced, equitable and a ...More

Seeking to ward off being named a deal breaker in the wake of the failure of the Climate Change negotiators to reach an accord at the Copenhagen conference, India on Wednesday vented its disappointmen ...More