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CUDDALORE: A three-member United Nations team led by Oliver de Schutter, Special Rapporteur for Right to Food, on Wednesday visited some villages to assess the impact of SIPCOT industries on the livelihood of farmers and fishermen.

More than 110 nations, including top greenhouse gas emitters led by China and the United States, back the non-binding Copenhagen Accord for combating climate change, according to a first formal UN list on Wednesday.

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Ahmedabad: The six-monthold Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), popularly known as Janmarg, is taking Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to places.

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It will be conducted by the Inter Academy Council, an international scientific organisation

New Delhi, March 11: The review of the error ridden fourth Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been handed over to the Inter-Academy Council (IAC), a scientific organisation bringing together experts from 15 countries, to be led by IAC co-chairs Robbert Dijkgraaf, who heads the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, and president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lu Yon

The United Nations on Wednesday launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months.

The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body which erroneously claimed that Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035.