THE GREEN WAY: R.Annamalai, (second left) Director, Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu, handing over a sapling to a student of AJK College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore on Friday.

An integrated plan involving government and non-governmental organisations is needed to mitigate the adverse effects of the climate change, said speakers at a meeting on Monday.
Pradipan, an NGO, arranged the meeting on alternative livelihood in the context of climate change at a city hotel with the help of Bread for the World and Christian Aid for Overseas Development.

Hyderabad Sept. 18: To offset the carbon footprint for its meeting here, the Pacific Asia Tourism Association (Pata) has decided to plant 30,000 trees at various places in the city.

Jamshedpur, Sept. 15: Pollution has been a cause of concern for people for some decades now, but few steps have been taken to control it.

Tata Motors Limited today organised a seminar on carbon emission reduction as part of an awareness campaign at Management Training Centre in Telco today.

S.B. Borwankar, the plant head of Tata Motors at Jamshedpur, was the chief guest and he called for an urgent need to reduce the green house gas emissions for the benefit of future generation.

CHENNAI: Preserving biodiversity, whether through age-old traditions or modern biotechnology, is essential to combat the impacts of climate change, according to agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan.

Delivering a lecture on the management of climate change for sustainable food security at the Indian Institute of Technology here on Monday, Prof. Swaminathan called for the creation of infrastructure in

New Delhi: Tata Motors, the new owner of Ford's Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR), has started taking steps to reduce emissions from the two British marques to drive within the stricter norms that are expected to come in force across the European Union from 2012.

Tata Motora MD Ravi Kant told TOI that a number of measures could be taken up by JLR to cut emissions. "Surely Jaguar and Land Rover are conscious of the direction in which things are moving and, of course, they will take adequate measures to see that they comply with the norms," he said.