Renuka Bisht

When Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham turned up in Zurich to push the UK

As the applause died down at the Moon Palace in the early morning on Saturday bringing the 16th annual climate change conference at Cancun to a close, the sense of achievement over the Cancun Agreements was replaced with a realisation that the road to Durban was going to be a difficult one.

Durban will host the annual UN climate change conference in 2011.

A day after environment minister Jairam Ramesh said at the UN convention in Cancun that India would consider a binding treaty on fighting climate change, he received flak from virtually the entire Opposition and several NGOs for the policy shift.

Meena Menon

CANCUN: Japan's refusal to commit to a second period of commitment to the Kyoto Protocol calls into question the very existence of the Protocol, ironically named after a city in that country.

Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh met his Japanese counterpart on Wednesday and was categorically informed that there was no question of a second commitment under the Kyoto P

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) today criticised Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh for supporting a binding commitment on emission norms for all countries.

The Centre said that today, at the ongoing 16 Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Cancun, Ramesh made a statement:

Meena Menon

CANCUN: As the high-level segment of the U.N. climate change conference began here on Tuesday, the second period of commitment to the Kyoto Protocol (KP) has become a contentious issue.

BETWA SHARMA CANCUN Maintaining that US’ response to climate change is “disappointing”, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday appealed to America to better its emission reduction commitment before it was “too late” for the global community.

Cancun: The climate talks at Cancun hit a bad logjam on Monday night with Japan and AOSIS (Association of Small Island Countries) demanding that India and other developing countries get bound into international emission reduction commitments before they allow Kyoto Protocol to continue or the long-term deal to proceed.

India and China took a joint and strong position against the blackmail a

Spelling out its non-negotiables for an agreed outcome at the Cancun climate change conference, the group of four major developing economies

INDIA urged the US to show greater ambition on reducing its emission of greenhouse gases. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh described the US offer on emission reduction as