TOKYO: Japan unveiled plans on Wednesday for greenhouse gas cuts over the coming decade only marginally deeper than its current UN commitments, a step green groups say threatens to deal a blow to glob ...More

BONN: Japan unveiled a new target Wednesday for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020, but the plan was slammed by environmentalists and the U.N. climate chief as leaving the industrial ...More

GUWAHATI, June 10 – “I, in the name of the Almighty, do take oath that I shall observe diverse environmental problems/crises, properly dispose of garbage of my household, judiciously use electricity a ...More

Dharamsala, June 10 The World Council for Corporate Governance is organising the Global Convention on Climate Security from June 12 to 14 at Palampur. Experts from across the globe would ponder on wh ...More

BONN, Germany: Global warming is uprooting people from their homes and, left unchecked, could lead to the greatest human migration in history, said a report released Wednesday. Estimates vary on h ...More

WASHINGTON: The world's seas are filled with too much garbage and too few fish with flimsy plastic bags and government subsidies bearing much of the blame, activists and trade officials said on Monday ...More

SINGAPORE: Some of the world's largest airlines called on Tuesday for the industry to set global emissions targets as part of efforts to include aviation in a broader climate agreement at the end of t ...More

BONN: Japan on Wednesday will unveil a target of reducing its greenhouse-gas emissions by seven percent by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, Japanese campaigners said on Tuesday at the UN climate talks ...More

Frustrated by the way governments are dragging their feet on combating climate change, leaders of green NGOs from around the world have come together to present the climate treaty they want to see ink ...More

OSLO: The world's shipping fleet could cut carbon emissions by 15% in just a few years, and the industry could be carbon neutral in 10 to 15 years aided by new technology, ship classifier Det Norske V ...More

BEIJING: The US climate change policy envoy, Todd Stern, is in Beijing this week to promote cooperation on a new global pact governing nations' greenhouse gas emissions that will be negotiated in Cope ...More

PARIS: You worry a lot about the environment and do everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint -- the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive dangerous climate change. So you always prefe ...More

OSLO: Environmental activists called on Monday for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and for developed nations to pay $160 billion a year to help the poor as part of a radical new UN climate treat ...More

OSLO: The world's shipping fleet could cut carbon emissions by 15% in just a few years, and the industry could be carbon neutral in 10 to 15 years aided by new technology, ship classifier Det Norske V ...More

Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no US president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year – reforming health care and fighting global warming. "It's not ...More

PARIS: You worry a lot about the environment and do everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint -- the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive dangerous climate change. So you always prefe ...More

OSLO: Environmental activists called on Monday for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and for developed nations to pay $160 billion a year to help the poor as part of a radical new UN climate treat ...More

CHENNAI: Advocacy of environment-friendly measures should be knowledge-driven and data-driven, wildlife filmmaker Shekar Dattatri said here on Saturday. Speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Young Ind ...More

Developing technology to cap emissions can provide an opportunity for the Indian industry to fight global recession and generate employment. Though emissions in India are much below China or the U ...More

HOJAI, June 7 – World Environment Day was celebrated with much enthusiasm here and was participated by school students of Hojai subdivision. In a programme organised by the Forest Department of ...More