Internal briefing paper accessed by The Hindu shows U.S. wants to promote its tech firms

In an internal briefing paper prepared for its diplomats across the world before the Warsaw climate negotiations, which The Hindu accessed, the U.S. has opposed the setting up of a separate mechanism on ‘loss and damage’. It has also pushed primarily for the role of private investments and finance to enable the poor countries to adapt to climate change.

Several developing countries, including India, have opposed the call for all countries to provide emission reduction pledges at a special session of heads of state in September 2014.

India, China and other countries in the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group on Tuesday formally took the position that the new climate agreement must not force developing countries to rev

The Philippines' tragedy that saw loss of over 10,000 lives by Typhoon Haiyan set the tone of United Nations' climate change talks, which began in Warsaw on Monday, amid hope that the devastation,

As representatives of some 190 countries gather at the National Stadium in Warsaw for the annual UN-sponsored climate change negotiations, the focus will be on ways to reduce emission of greenhouse

The developed countries should not count private investments against the commitment of $100 billion annual fund for fighting climate change, India demanded, along with several other developing coun

The global climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to a leaked draft of the to-be-released fifth assessment report (AR-5) on global warming.

The revelation, on the face of it, would seem that developing countries will have more room for industrialsiation enabled by fossil fuels than what the extant multilateral commitments denote.

Bangladesh and Japan on Tuesday signed an agreement to tackle the challenge of climate change by reducing green house gas emissions.

A memorandum of understanding was signed on Monday between the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, and Transport for London, which is a government body responsible for transport in Gr