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.

Chairman of the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) RK Pachauri today said the G8 nations had

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.

A chorus of criticism has greeted India

When the government is shouting for compensation or negotiating with international community over impact of climate change in Bangladesh, it has no specific data how much the country had already been affected by the menace especially due to the sea level rise.

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?

D. Raghunandan, Prabir Purkayastha & T. Jayaraman

India

As Sri Lanka painfully battles the dengue epidemic and swine flue, it is an irony that people in poor countries like Sri Lanka, which have contributed least to carbon emissions, should suffer disproportionately the resulting climate change.