After the differences at Durban over carbon reduction, India has an opportunity to mend fences with the least developed countries.

Civil aviation ministers from about 20 countries to discuss issue in Moscow this week.

In a setback to the climate talks underway in Durban, discussions on finance, a key element of a successful outcome, appear to have hit the slow road.

Environment Minister

The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has prepared a detailed set of draft rules for identifying critical wildlife habitats or areas within national parks and sanctuaries that would be free of human presence.

Appreciate Ramesh

As the applause died down at the Moon Palace in the early morning on Saturday bringing the 16th annual climate change conference at Cancun to a close, the sense of achievement over the Cancun Agreements was replaced with a realisation that the road to Durban was going to be a difficult one.

Durban will host the annual UN climate change conference in 2011.

Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI

RAISING doubts on the impartiality of the Saxena-Pandey committee appointed by the Centre, the Orissa government has questioned the authenticity of their findings about violations in the Posco project area.

A PROACTIVE MODEL, NOT RIGHT TO POLLUTE, WILL SPELL SUCCESS
URMI A GOSWAMI

AT ITS third meeting in Cape Town, the BASIC group (comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China) sought to re-establish its developing country credentials. The four advanced-developing countries made it clear that their forum was firmly anchored in the developing country bloc of G-77 and China.