Cancun: The Wikileaks cablegate hit the climate talks at Cancun as well with leaked documents showing how the US and EU had attempted to manipulate talks in favour of the Copenhagen Accord by offering monetary carrots to small countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change and cutting aid to those who dared to oppose them.
Several countries had talked of dirty tricks played by ric
New Delhi: Climate games have begun to heat up again ahead of the Cancun meet that starts on November 29. India has made two detailed proposals on its scrutiny and other developing country
New Delhi: After more than three weeks of dithering, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the environment ministry on Thursday signed on the minutes recommending temporary withdrawal of forest clearance to the Rs 54,000 crore Posco project in Orissa for violation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA).
New Delhi: The four-member review committee on Posco will submit its report to the environment and forests ministry on Monday but it has already got mired in controversy with the chair of the panel, ex-environment secretary Meena Gupta, expected to give a dissent note while the other members provide a unanimous majority version.
The fact that the chair of the committee was the senior-most b
