COPENHAGEN, Dec 15 – With hopes for a far-reaching deal on climate change receding, India is making a strong pitch for extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 and commitments that legally bind develo ...More

Khamano, December 15 Producing power from non-conventional sources of energy is India’s reply to the developed nations on global warming. Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah sai ...More

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he has chosen Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai to be a UN "Messenger of Peace" to focus on climate change issues. The ceremony appointing the 2004 Nobel Pea ...More

With just a few hours left before heads of state from around the world start addressing the climate summit, there was still no sign of a Copenhagen Agreement on Tuesday. India feared that, but for a ...More

One of the lesser known aspects of the world debate on climate change is the swarm of acronyms and abbreviations it has spawned. Some of the most outstanding follow below: BAM: the acronym stan ...More

With three days left to seal a deal at Copenhagen, climate change champion Al Gore has called on developed and developing countries to reach 'compromises' on their key differences for the sake of futu ...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 Ministers ...More

The BASIC group is united and we would like to reiterate that we want an equitable and fair agreement to emerge out of Copenhagen. Consensus eluded negotiators on Wednesday to stitch an equitable and ...More

With no signs of breakthrough in the tough negotiations in climate change conference here, India fears that the talks could collapse, but for a miracle. As negotiators raced against time to hammer o ...More

COPENHAGEN: China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their green ...More

COPENHAGEN: Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animals from the emperor penguin to Australian koala bears, according to a report released today at the UN climate summit. Rising sea ...More

Several articles — some of them misleading — have recently appeared in the media on a study by the World Bank, ‘Energy Intensive Sectors of the Indian Economy: Options for Low Carbon Development’. In ...More

COPENHAGEN: China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their gre ...More

COPENHAGEN: Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animals from the emperor penguin to Australian koala bears, according to a report released today at the UN climate summit. Rising sea ...More

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday reiterated that the developed countries, including the United States, cannot jettison the accepted approach of common but differentiated res ...More

With hopes for a far-reaching deal on climate change receding, India is making a strong pitch for extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 and commitments that legally bind developed countries to redu ...More

The one step forward, two steps back story of the Copenhagen climate change conference continued on Friday as African countries took the lead on behalf of the developing world to force a suspension of ...More

Australia is allowed to up carbon emissions by 8% compared to the 1990 levels. Australia has allegedly wrongly presented its carbon emissions report by ignoring a massive rise in polluting gases from ...More

Around 1.3 billion people in India, the rest of South Asia and China are at imminent risk of water shortage due to climate change, according to the UN. The Kathmandu-based UN organisation Internat ...More

Toughening its stand on climate, India along with China briefly walked out of negotiations. Toughening its stand on climate change, India along with China and two other countries briefly walked out o ...More