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KOCHI: Calling upon governments across the world to devise a quick action plan to deal with the rapid retreat of the Himalayan glaciers, environmental activist Vandana Shiva said the glaciers might not survive this century if the melting continued.

Stating that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will make efforts to ensure that its fifth assessment report carries no errors, its chairman R K Pachauri has ruled out stepping down even if the United Nations-constituted review committee finds faults in the procedures followed by the panel.

India, China and Nepal are set to launch a joint conservation initiative for the Mount Kailash landscape. The conservation will be meant to tackle the issue of glacial melt, biodiversity conservation and, interestingly, also have a mandate for cultural conservation in the Himalayan region.

- Late melting of glaciers & dry spell decrease ganga flow
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The Farakka barrage in Murshidabad

NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday assured Parliament that India would resist any kind of attempt to unseat Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman R.K. Pachauri, asserting that the government had full faith and confidence in him.

The Government on Monday told Parliament that it would contest any attempt to remove RK Pachauri as head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and said,

New Delhi: The government on Monday came out in strong support of embattled Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri, holding that it will

After being grilled at the United Nations, Dr R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, found himself being pressured once again to explain whether he was going resign.

The United Nations launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months.

The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body which erroneously claimed that Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035.