Talks on a new climate change treaty in Qatar next week will not advance unless rich countries promise more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, four major developing nations said.

China, India, South Africa and Brazil said a climate agreement expected to take effect in 2020 won't be a “new regime,” potentially setting up a confrontation with the US, which is seeking to elimi

India has accused European Union of threatening to break the ‘Durban deal’ on climate change and linking the ratification of Kyoto Protocol to new conditions.

Jayanthi Natarajan's tough stand ensures recognition abroad, but red-tapism & bureaucracy continue to delay approvals in India

Reticence can be a double-edged sword. For Jayanthi Natarajan, minister for environment and forests, her reserve has attracted much criticism from domestic detractors. Yet, on the high table of international climate diplomacy, it helped her ensure the voice of developing countries, particularly India, was heard at the global climate talks.

AHMEDABAD: A professor from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) is drafting a report for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to keep average global temperature rise below 2 degree Celsius.

PR Shukla is among the lead authors from around the world, who are preparing a report on the expected emissions and the actual global emissions consistent with the 2 degree Celsius target. Keeping average global temperature rise below 2 degree Celsius has been the focus of international efforts crystallized first in Copenhagen in 2009, in Cancun in 2010 and reaffirmed in Durban in 2011.

NEW DELHI: The meeting of BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, China and India — in Pretoria, South Africa, made a strong statement against EU's carbon tax on aviation at the end of two-day talk