Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N.

India lost much more than it gained at the Cancun climate change meeting in December 2010, admits an internal assessment of the government.

U.N. talks have run out of time to meet a December 2012 deadline to put in place a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gases, the U.N.'s top climate official said Monday.

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Pressing ahead with its diversification plans, Navratna PSU National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) plans to set up a 50.4-MW wind power project at a cost of . 274 crore in Gandikota, in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. The wind power project will be executed through Suzlon Energy Limited.

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The United Nations said its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is growing steadily, having registered 3,000 carbon cutting energy projects to date.

Under the CDM, firms invest in projects that reduce climate-warming emissions in developing nations and receive credits called certified emissions reductions (CERs) in return.

The scheme began in 2005 and has clean energy projects in 71 countries.