Power sector in India is quite phenomenal and it continues to grow

Power generation, transmission and distribution for a huge country like India with its myriad geographical, physiological, demographic, natural and environmental variations pose a great challenge.

Pakistan can use its 27million acre of saline lands to cultivate algae, which is the best alternative feedstock to biofuel production, says a researcher at the Mie University of Japan.

Aid of $10 billion from rich nations would be a "good beginning" to launch a U.N. climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the United Nations' top climate official said on Thursday.

Brazil's securities regulator has recommended that carbon credits be treated as investments separate from derivatives since they are used mainly as instruments to trim greenhouse gas emissions.

In a decision published late on Tuesday, the Rio de Janeiro-based securities regulator, known as CVM, said it would consider some carbon credit products as tradable securities on a case-by-case basis.

Experts at a seminar yesterday claimed that there is no firm evidence of global warming.

They said available data is contradictory and there is little consensus within the scientific community.

The House

The G8 agreed on Wednesday to try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent, but it failed to persuade China and India to join a bid to halve world emissions.

With only five months until a new U.N. climate pact is due to be agreed in Copenhagen, climate change organizations said the G8 had left much work to be done and ducked key issues.

G8 leaders were due to agree a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels at a summit in Italy on Wednesday.

Here are some facts about the target, previously adopted by European Union nations and due to be widened to the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada.

2 DEGREES DOESN'T SOUND MUCH?

Major economies tried on Tuesday to break the deadlock between rich and poor nations over 2050 goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a last-minute meeting before an expanded G8 summit in Italy.