Eurozone crisis, UN reforms likely to top the agenda of fifth summit of India, Brazil and South Africa

With India proposing the inclusion of some of neglected issues in the agenda of the UN climate change negotiations in Durban later this year, experts feel the country has taken a U-turn from its st

The UN’s talks on climate change are daft and crippled by finger-pointing and the need for consensus, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, was quoted on Thursday by Le Monde as saying.

In the run up to the COP 17 (Conference of Parties) meet, the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has called for the inclusion of three contentious issues to the Secretariat of the United Nat

India made it clear on Monday that it wants contentious issues, including access to intellectual property rights (IPRs), to be a part of the upcoming climate change talks at Durban in South Africa.

Lending support to demands from developing countries for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union Tuesday said it favored the continuation of the global pact that is aimed at reducing

Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power on Monday said it would earn Rs.2,000 crore by trading carbon credits from its Tilaiya ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Jharkhand in the first ten years of its op

Reliance Power Ltd’s 3,960 MW Tilaiya Ultra Mega Power Project, being developed by its wholly owned subsidiary Jharkhand Integrated Power Ltd (JIPL), has got approval for carbon credits from the Un

India’s unequivocal opposition to a legally binding climate agreement for all countries could push it into a corner ahead of the UN-–sponsored climate summit in Durban.