The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing and a rise in global temperatures seems imminent

The international community is being exhorted to enforce a greenhouse regime

1980s Growing public Concern over scientific Evidence that Earth is getting warmer and the need to control the emission of greenhouse gases NOVEMBER 1988 First session of the Inter-governmental

THE Brazilian minister for environment, Rubens Ricupero, says that Western politicians, NGOs and the media betray the attitude that Third World countries look for what he calls the "lowest common

A TIMES poll showed 92 per cent of British citizens opposed the two-stage imposition of a value-added tax on domestic fuel and heating. Unperturbed by these figures, British chancellor Kenneth Clarke

Indiscriminate felling of trees to meet human and animal needs is not only depleting India's forest wealth at an alarming rate, but also increasing global warming. But as India's share of global carbon dioxide emissions is minuscule, are not the interests

IN THE context of the forest department's increasing sensitivity to participatory programmes such as joint forest management, the "anti-people" stance of the article by a senior forester like A N

The meeting of the climate convention negotiating committee, which was meant to evolve criterion for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, remained inconclusive with Germany trying to put the onus for the reduction on developing countries.

JOINT implementation was the main point of discussion at the recent meeting of the intergovernmental committee on climate change in Geneva. The idea of joint implementation has been promoted

A global climate model devised in USA attempts to probe the connection between monsoon variability and increasing carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere

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