Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere have reached the highest point in 800‚000 years

India has unveiled a draft national policy to provide a roadmap for building comprehensive strategies for cutting carbon emissions from deforestation.

Officials said the national policy for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) along with the strategies will lead to REDD+ readiness in the country and enable India to gain from international REDD+ mechanism for its pro conservation policies and efforts in future.

Participants attending the ongoing conference on community-based adaptation (CBA) in Kathmandu highlighted the need to enhance the resilience of local communities through adequate funding in a sust

Greenhouse gas emissions by the US dropped 3.4% in 2012 from the previous year and by 10% since 2005, according to an official report.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made this assertion in its 19th annual report, "Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks", submitted to the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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As a UN body - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - in its latest report has set an alarm bell ringing for the world to the looming threats of global warming, its chairman R K Pachaur

Asia is facing the brunt of climate change and will see severe stress on water resources and food-grain production in the future, increasing the risk of armed conflict among India, Pakistan, Bangl