Ananth Krishnan
BEIJING: Even as China continues to reject accepting a time-frame for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a report released on Tuesday by a government panel called for the country to set a 2030 deadline for its emissions to peak.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday described as alarming India

MEF decision sparks row, business focus of Hillary visit early in July, at the Major Economies Forum (mef) meet in Italy, India signed a statement which created a major controversy back home. A few days later sparks flew during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

greenhouse gas emissions UK plans to go low-carbon The UK government unveiled a plan to make the country a low carbon emitter. The plan, announced by energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, details how the country will meet its domestic climate targets, set out under the climate change act, to cut emissions by at least 34 per cent by 2020 on 1990 levels. The goals include

Without the west cutting its emissions, this means a virtual cap on the emissions of the developing world

The G-8 climate action agenda calling for 80 per cent reduction in emission by 2050 has been rightly criticised as mere hot air. Without any specific short-term targets or a roadmap to get there, lofty declarations like the one made in L