New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday admitted that India had for the first time agreed to join the effort to cap the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees from the pre-industrial level. But he strongly denied that it was a climbdown from its position not to accept binding emission cut targets.

New Delhi: After the opposition parties mounted pressure on the government on agreeing to targeted reduction in carbon emission during the recent G-8 meet and also during recent visit of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday reiterated that India would not take any binding emission reduction target which would undermine

One of the principal items on the agenda of the US Secretary of the State

Besides the joint statement with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday also sought to clear the air on two other agreements that New Delhi has recently signed

PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged that India had made a deviation in India

July 29: India has not capitulated or compromised its right to either social or economic development during the recent G-8 meeting in Italy.

Neither has it accepted any caps on the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday morning.

Environment and Natural Resources Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka addressing the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change South Asian Sub Regional Meeting in Colombo yesterday said Sri Lanka would propose three amendments to the Kyoto Protocol because the present Carbon Emission cut included in it was not enough to save humanity in future.

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Vibha Sharma
The research organisation, International Data Corporation

Both the developed and developing countries need to make a compromise. Having a standard cut across the board for developing countries doesn