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| Bush environment aide joins oil giant |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Friday, June 17, 2005 |
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WASHINGTON: A senior White House official accused of doctoring government reports on climate change to play down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming has taken a job with Exxon ...More
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| Global warming shrinks Siberian lakes |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Sunday, June 12, 2005 |
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MOSCOW: Lakes in two large swaths of Siberia are shrinking in size and 125 of them have disappeared, a U.S. study revealed recently. Scientists have examined satellite photographs of 305,000 sqkm of S ...More
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| ‘Carbon dollars’ a lucrative way |
| PAUL JOHN |
| Times of India , Sunday, June 12, 2005 |
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AHMEDABAD: Industries and municipal corporations in Gujarat can now earn in dollars on initiatives to reduce the tonnes of carbon emitted that contribute to global green house phenomenon. These emissi ...More
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| "Prompt action needed on climate change" |
| David Adam |
| The Hindu , Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
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LONDON: United States scientists have increased the pressure on President George Bush and other world leaders to tackle climate change by signing a joint statement calling on G-8 nations to reduce gre ...More
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| `Industrialisation will harm Orissa's ecology greatly ' |
| Prafulla Das |
| The Hindu Business Line , Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
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Environmental costs of production are negligible in Orissa since no one uses pollution control equipment.
Bhubaneswar , June 6
A NEW wave of industrialisation threatens to make the people of Oriss ...More
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| Kerala becoming warmer, says environment survey |
| T. Nandakumar |
| The Hindu , Sunday, June 05, 2005 |
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Tourism growth posing threat to coastal degradation
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: : Sustained multiple assaults on environment signal an emerging crisis for Kerala as large areas across the State struggle to ...More
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| Maharashtra plans `carbon' tax |
| Our Bureau |
| The Hindu Business line , Saturday, June 04, 2005 |
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Mumbai , June 3
THE Forest Ministry of Maharashtra is considering the introduction of a tax on vehicles and industrial units, based on their carbon emissions.
The money collected, thus, would be u ...More
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| ADB assistance to take up CDM projects |
| G.K. Nair |
| The Hindu Business line , Saturday, June 04, 2005 |
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The CDM is a market-based financial instrument that allows industrialised countries to invest in developing country projects and acquire GHG emission reduction credits.
THE Asian Development Bank wi ...More
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| ADB to give $700,000 green loan to India |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
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Singapore, June 2. (UNI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday announced a technical assistance grant of US$700,000 to help India to efficiently undertake clean development mechanism (CDM) pr ...More
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| Corporations joining in Global climate change game |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu Business Line , Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
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Unlike the US administration, corporate is not belittling the science behind the climate change. They are stepping forward to break the current policy-making impasse on global climate in the US.
Corp ...More
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| Giant kangaroos fell to climate change? |
| Staff Reporter |
| Times of India , Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
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Sydney: Climate change not the action of humans, is likely to have led to the dying out of Australia’s giant wombats and kangaroos.
Gilbert Price, who is studying for his PhD at Queensland University ...More
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| India major seller in emissions market |
| Sudhanshu Ranade |
| The Hindu Business Line , Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
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WORLDWIDE trading in emissions added up to less than $400 million last year. But it is early days yet. Turnover is growing rapidly, as is the price at which emissions are being traded.
About 107 mil ...More
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| UN seeks climate 'roadmap' beyond Kyoto |
| Alister Doyle |
| Hindustan Times , Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
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The world should work out a roadmap this year for extending the UN Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 even though many rich states are far from complying, the UN's climate change chief said ...More
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| Estimates on greenhouse gas emissions flawed: India |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
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Bonn, May 18. (PTI): India on Tuesday dismissed as "flawed" projections that it along with China and other developing countries would overtake developed nations greenhouse gas emissions in a few decad ...More
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| World trade talks and the environment |
| Staff Reporter |
| The Hindu , Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
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Tony Juniper and Ronnie Hall
Negotiators at the WTO could seek to trade reductions in environmental standards in industrialised countries for corporate access to more and cheaper natural resources i ...More
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| New Zealand introduces tax on greenhouse gases |
| John Vidal |
| The Hindu , Friday, May 06, 2005 |
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WELLINGTON: New Zealanders will pay an extra $2.90 (New Zealand) a week for electricity, petrol and gas when the country becomes the first in the world to introduce a carbon tax to address global warm ...More
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| Kerala becoming warmer, says environment survey |
| T. Nandakumar |
| The Hindu , Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
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Tourism growth posing threat to coastal degradation
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: : Sustained multiple assaults on environment signal an emerging crisis for Kerala as large areas across the State struggle to ...More
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| Ozone layer most fragile on record |
| Paul Brown |
| The Hindu , Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
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THE PROTECTIVE ozone layer over the Arctic has thinned this winter to the lowest levels since records began, alarming scientists who believed it had begun to heal.
The increased loss of ozone allo ...More
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| Glaciers on Antarctica shrinking fast |
| Ian Sample |
| The Hindu , Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
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GLACIERS ON the Antarctic peninsula are shrinking rapidly as a result of climate change, scientists have found.
In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers measured 244 glaciers on th ...More
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