Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Even as the world fails to arrive at any consensus on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen meet scheduled for December, India is all set to come up with a statement at the end of a high level conference on Climate Change: Technology Development and Transfer to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on October 22.

JAIPUR: The British High Commission along with an international NGO has invited the Pink City to COP 15 summit at Copenhagen in December this year. The reason: Jaipur has been adjudged as one of the cities which has a low emission record per capita.

Bangkok: The industrialised countries may be unwilling to commit to reducing emissions under the Kyoto Protocol but they still want the

P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE: India is warning against fresh moves by some developed countries for a

WITH a new United Nations climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the developed world and the emerging economies are trying to bridge their differences on how to curb greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.

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.

China and a bloc of developing nations on Monday accused rich countries of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, the only international treaty in force that fights global warming.

UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said on Saturday negotiators had just 10 days left to secure a global climate deal and governments must not be hindered by domestic troubles.

The United Nations hopes to bring 190 governments together in early December in Copenhagen to finalise a deal on greenhouse gas emissions to replace provisions of the Kyoto Protocol expiring in 2012.