Oil exploration and production companies are counted among the bad boys when it comes to environmental damage.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN

New Delhi: India will push for R K Pachauri to continue as the chairman of the UN

THE atmosphere is a strategic resource needed to establish the infrastructure necessary for eradication of poverty and climate change cannot be considered only in terms of environmental damage.

Climate change is a difficult subject for multilateral cooperation because of the limitations in developing a shared assessment of a challenge posed by competition for scarce resources.

Vast areas of costal belt including parts of eight southern districts may sink as the sea level will rise by 14 centimetre and 32 cm by 2030 and 2050 respectively due to climate change effects.

State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud told parliament yesterday that the districts are Noakhali, Laxmipur, Barisal, Bhola, Pirojpur, Jhalokathi, Satkhira and Bagerhat.

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Cleared of financial wrongdoing, R K Pachauri, who heads the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, is weighing reforms put forth by a UN-ordered probe.