New Delhi: The differences of opinion in the higher echelons of the government about India’s international climate change stance has now come out in the open with a Wiki-Leaks cable showing senior
New Delhi: Ahead of the crucial ministerial level climate talks in South Africa, India has convinced the other three BASIC countries — Brazil, South Africa and China — to endorse its stand on equit
New Delhi: Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board S P Gautam sold a patent he held privately on a technology to the apex authority on a revenue sharing basis and then passed a directive in
The environment ministry made a specious argument before the Cuttack bench of Orissa high court, defending its decision to clear Posco without verifying if the Forest Rights Act had been violated or not in diverting forest land to the Rs 54,000 crore integrated steel plant.
It said the law
New Delhi: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has gone ahead and paved the legal ground to regulate development work along 135 kilometres of the Bhagirathi river from Gaumukh to Uttarkashi after the Uttarakhand government failed to do so.
In a letter to the BJP chief minister of the hill state, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the Union environment minister has pointed out that a decision to
New Delhi: How ambitious are the emission reduction targets rich nations are ready to adopt for 2020? Pretty low, suggests a technical report that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has prepared. The report is based on compiling the offers developed countries made after the Cancun summit last year.
New Delhi: Lafarge, the French cement giant, has landed in trouble again with green clearances, this time for a project in Himachal Pradesh. The French company intends to set up a 3-millionton-per-annum cement and 2-million-tonner-per-annum clinker plant along with a captive limestone mine of 3 million tonne per annum in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
New Delhi: In a game of shifting goal posts, the developed countries have pushed to flesh out rules for international scrutiny of Indian and other emerging economies even as they refuse to commit either funds or targets for emission reduction under the Kyoto Protocol.
The attempt to up the speed at which the rules for international scrutiny of emerging economies and stall progress on target
