The crucial climate talks in Durban are set to witness a clash of titans.

New Delhi India Inc is urging the key negotiating nations at the ongoing climate talks at Durban to focus on three key issues — market-based mechanisms, technology transfer and trade.

New Delhi: India, Brazil and China took yet another step in firming their alliance on the climate front with the three BASIC countries together demanding that the principle of ‘historical emissions

Even before the annual UN climate change negotiations are formally kicked off in Durban, India is warding off pressure to commit to legally binding CO2 emission cuts.

The BASIC appears to have finally shed its reticence.

New Delhi With only 30 members, India's delegation to the Durban climate talks is the smallest among all key negotiating nations. China is taking a 150-strong delegation while Australia has 40-plus. Further, several key climate negotiators like Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and Prodipto Ghosh are absent in the delegation led by environment ministry

India Inc is keeping fingers crossed as the first two days of parleys at the ongoing Durban climate summit are pointing at an enduring logjam.

The weather may not always have been kind to cocoa farmers in West Africa, but until recently it was at least broadly predictable.

Canada dismissed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday as a thing of the past, but declined to confirm a media report it will formally pull out of the international treaty before the end o

Small island states may disappear under rising seas if an international agreement to tackle climate change is delayed for another decade, an official said on Monday.The European Union is calling fo