The Maldives, one of the countries most at risk from rising sea levels, will not attend this year's Copenhagen summit on climate change because the atoll nation is broke, its president said Monday.

President Mohamed Nasheed told reporters in the capital Male that his newly-elected government had no money to fund his visit to the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in December.

The World Bank (WB) has included for the first time Tarbela Fourth Extension Hydropower project worth $300 million in its lists of proposed projects and project concept note at WB

Japan's prime minister-elect said on Monday he will forge ahead with a tough 25 percent cut in emissions by 2020, despite growing opposition from industry which says the target will hurt the world's No. 2 economy.

But Yukio Hatoyama added that the target, more ambitious than the outgoing government's, was premised on a deal on ambitious goals being agreed by major nations.

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Ahmedabad: The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a programme of US-based William J Clinton Foundation, on Monday announced setting up of the world

The Maldives archipelago, threatened by rising sea levels blamed on climate change, said on Monday it would introduce a new environment tax on all tourists who use its resorts and provide its economic lifeline.

CHENNAI: If the Indian Government diverts a part of the subsidy for fuels to create renewable energy sources, there will be a tremendous change in the lives of people, said Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy.

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SOLAR POWER: Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, inaugurating WinWinD

USE of solar power-driven water pumps is a major alternate energy source for better crop yields in power-starved Bangladesh, according to experts. To ease the country's acute power crisis, solar power can be used as an alternative source of electricity for irrigation and it would at least help reduce 700 to 800 MW in every day's load.

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) hospital has become the first municipal hospital in the country to adopt renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE & EE) options, which after a successful run, could also be replicated in other cities.

Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has expressed confidence that the development of new and renewable energy sector would catapult the rural electrification scenario in the state and asserted that the government would take every step in this direction.