New Delhi: The political cost of a shift on climate change negotiations increased for the UPA government with the Left, BJP and the green lobby standing on common ground to oppose any political drift before the crucial Copenhagen climate talks in December.
New Delhi: Faced with resistance from within and outside to his advocacy for a dramatic change of stand on climate change negotiations, environment minister Jairam Ramesh was in damage control mode on Tuesday. Backtracking on many of his controversial propositions, the environment minister denied that he had strayed from the stance India had so far taken.
Bangkok: With merely eight days of negotiation time effectively remaining before the final round of talks at Copenhagen, the future of a global climate deal has got stuck with the intransigence of industrialised countries.
New Delhi: Differences between the rich and the developing countries have turned into entrenched battle lines at climate negotiations in Bangkok, with the EU backing the contentious proposal of the US to do away with the Kyoto Protocol
New Delhi: The G77 won a big round at the UN climate negotiations that began on Monday at Bangkok with US backing down from its threat to block negotiations unless the line between industrialized countries and emerging economies is blurred. India played a leading role in the defensive surge of G77, which many have been claiming could fall apart sooner rather than later.
New Delhi: The PMO is considering a concept note to create a National Climate Change Mitigation Authority that would oversee an act that sets up aspirational climate-related targets for the country to achieve by 2020. The move will help ward off the charge that India is obstructionist on climate change.
A Nasa mission revealed Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan lost 109 cubic km of water in six years. With pumps being sunk in ever deeper, a bad monsoon has only shown how close to the edge we live
