The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs to come out with a

New Delhi: Even as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been criticised over its claim on the melting of Himalayan glaciers, Environment Ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India and China came out in its support stating that

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The group of four emerging economies

New Delhi: With Copenhagen Accord setting a January 31 deadline for the nations to specify 2020 emission targets and other steps, India will hold discussion with other BASIC group members comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi to discuss their climate strategy.

With the Copenhagen Accord setting a January 31 deadline for the nations to specify 2020 emission targets and other steps, India will hold discussion with other Basic group members comprising China, South Africa and Brazil in New Delhi to discuss their climate strategy.

For a species that is facing the gravest threat to its sole habitat we seem to be pretty casual about saving it as the recently concluded Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen demonstrated. You could forgive the dinosaurs--they didn't know that a meteorite was going to clobber the earth leading to catastrophic climate changes and their rapid extinction.

Ananth Krishnan

Only two weeks have passed after the Copenhagen climate summit ended with a compromise agreement, but officials are already laying the groundwork for the next round of negotiations.

New Delhi: The high-octane Copenhagen climate talks may have ended but global negotiations are going to get into a greater frenzy in 2010. To be on top of the game, the BASIC four countries