Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the joint Indo-U.S. statement, particularly the portion on climate change, which

Nepal should play a meaningful leadership role to draw the attention of world leaders on the impacts of climate change despite being a country least responsible for global carbon emissions, experts said on Monday.

Speaking at a programme organised by Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN), Arjun Karki, international coordinator for Least-Developed Countries (LDC) Watch, said that though the effects o

Developed countries may not accept the targets for the post-2012 phase under the Kyoto Protocol and may even abandon it altogether.

THE UNITED Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen next month is meant to further the goals of a global environmental treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Though the actions being committed by the developed countries on climate change have fallen way short of expectations, the developing countries have come up with some ambitious targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions notwithstanding the fact that there was little hope of any comprehensive treaty emerging from the Copenhagen summit.

If some of the popular writing in the western media is to be believed, India

OVER the last few months, India