CHENNAI: Slamming US and other Western nations for "continuing to cause pollution" despite their commitments, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan today said developing countries, including Indi

Impatient with the slow pace of international climate change negotiations, a small group of countries led by the United States is starting a program to reduce emissions of common pollutants that co

The two-day 10th BASIC Ministerial Meeting of Brazil, South Africa, India and China on climate change, which concluded on Tuesday, expressed concern over the European Union’s decision to impose car

The director general of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) believes that programmes like ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus (REDD+)’ can poten

The impact of climate change needs to be factored in development programmes so as to tackle the long-term requirement of mitigation and adaptation. This was highlighted at an international conference on Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Public Leadership here on Tuesday.

Underscoring the need for adopting a multidimensional strategy, Minister of State for Agriculture Harish Rawat appealed to agriculture scientists to document the indigenous wisdom of Indian farmers who had been adapting to climatic variability over the centuries.

Beijing China's airlines are not allowed to pay a charge on carbon emissions imposed by the EU without government permission, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.

In a statement, the CAAC said it had been authorized by China's Cabinet to notify the ban to all domestic airlines. The EU's decision to charge flights into and out of EU airports for carbon emission "runs contrary to relevant principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the International Civil Aviation Regulations."

China geared up for a showdown with European Union by barring its airlines to pay EU’s carbon emissions tax.

India and France should collaborate to evolve acceptable solutions for the emission reduction regime to be adopted in 2015

Following meetings with both minister for aviation Ajit Singh and environment minister Jayanti Natarajan on the controversial carbon emissions levy that EU has introduced, Connie Hedegaard, European Union climate action commissioner, claimed the tax is inevitable “as aviation is increasing and emissions from aviation are also increasing.”

India, along with the international community, led by International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICOU), has fiercely opposed the tax introduced from January 1 with airlines accusing the EU of having taken an extra territorial decision.