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Why is Taiwan the elephant in every room between US and China?US President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Taiwan remains the most crucial issue for China. The island's self-g...
COP30: All you need to know about the climate conference and its importanceThe U.N. climate conference, COP30, begins in Brazil. Nations gather to tackle climate change. This year's summit returns to its roots, foc...
At ASEAN-India summit, PM Modi calls for building rules-based post-COVID world orderPrime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the importance of building a rules-based post-COVID world order and strengthening the voice of the ...
Earth gets hotter, deadlier during decades of climate talks
UN adopts ambitious post-2015 Sustainable Development GoalsThe General Assembly adopted the new framework, "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", composed of 17 goals...
- International community would benefit from India's presidency of CBD: Executive Secretary
India is doing well in conservation of biological diversity & the int'l community would benefit from its presidency of CBD over the next 2 ...
Rio+20: What transpired in the summit, and what it means for companies & citizensAfter 20 years of more words than action, when the world assembled there again, not much had changed. Many words were exchanged, but not en...
Sustainable development: Rio deal document addresses concerns, say Indian OfficialsGovernment officials say the outcome document, called the “The Future We Want” , retains the principle of Common But Differentiated Respons...
- Rio+20: Country's economy relies on environment, its national accounts don't reflect this
Rio+20 is not about climate change alone; it is a revisiting of the 1992 first Earth Summit to reassess priorities and formulate action to ...
- India's major policy concerns to be addressed at Rio 20+ conference
Indian officials say the agreement by government leaders at the Rio 20+ conference on sustainable development addresses their major concern...
Green groups worried as Rio+20 pact is dilutedThe draft deal put forward by the summit hosts "is a more streamlined text, more likely to be agreed, less likely to deliver sustainable de...
Rio+20: UN environment summit opens, but prospects grimRousseff, president of host nation Brazil, called on "all countries of the world to commit" to reaching an accord that addresses the most p...
Earth Summit: India for upholding Rio principlesIndia will push for upholding the principle of common but differentiated responsibility while addressing the issue of sustainable developme...
Rio+20 Summit: No progress in climate change goals, says UNEPThe Global Environmental Outlook has held that while there is considerable success in ozone layer replacement, little progress has been mad...
Rio Summit: Consumption driving 'unprecedented' environment damage, says UNPopulation growth and unsustainable consumption are driving Earth towards "unprecedented" environmental destruction, the UN said in a repor...
Climate change to cost Latin America $100 bn by 2050: StudyIn a new report, Inter-American Development Bank also called for "forceful" reductions in greenhouse gases to forestall some of the worst c...
Earth Summit: China stresses economic needs ahead of UN environment summitThe comments added to signs that the June 20-22 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, might face political obstacles to any significant agreem...
Rio+20 summit to get maximum security: State officialThe Rio+20 gathering, the fourth major summit on sustainable development since 1972, is to be attended by 115 global leaders and 50,000 par...
- Earth Summit: India for upholding Rio principles
India will push for upholding the principle of common but differentiated responsibility while addressing the issue of sustainable developme...
- Time to pay attention to land degradation: UNCCD
With the world finally focusing on the issue of climate change, the United Nations is also concerned over the lack of action on land degrad...