- Cancun climate summit garners hope of balanced outcome
Just a week ahead of the climate change summit in Cancun, there appears to be some resurgence of hope that the UN sponsored process will re...
- Cancun Strategy: BASIC meet in China today for international consultation & analysis
Barely a month before the Cancun climate summit, ministers of the BASIC countries will be meeting for a crucial round of consultations in T...
- Climate change focus shifts to "post-Cancun": Ramesh
Noting that "no major breakthrough" was possible at the climate change conference in Cancun, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that t...
- Add equity principle to climate draft: Ramesh
Insisting that the current text had ignored the principle of common but differentiated targets, Ramesh demanded that the negotiating text b...
- Top emitters meet in Rome to iron out climate issues
Smaller groups are taking up discussions on substantive issues to arrive at some clear understanding ahead of the weeklong Bonn negotiation...
- India clears stand on international scrutiny of climate change actions
India has clarified its stand on the issue of international scrutiny of climate change actions in a note forwarded by Union environment and...
- Developed countries meet to look for way forward
After the rebuff at Bonn, industrialised countries will use the platform accorded by the Major Economies Forum (MEF) to push their ideas on...
- Differences remain at Major Economic Forum meeting
The two-day Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting on Climate Change concluded here today with differences remaining on critical issues among ...
- 2°C threshold fact of life: Ramesh
Barely 48 hours after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underplayed the consequences of accepting a global temperature threshold of 2 degrees c...
- India has not abandoned stand on climate change: Manmohan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged that India had made a deviation in India’s climate change position by accepting, for the first t...
- India won't take foot off gas this time round
The government is unlikely to specify an emission target at the United Nations negotiations in Bonn next month, abandoning its commitment a...
Emission compromise at cost of development?If the UN negotiations were to adopt the concepts India has signed on at the Major Emitters' Forum on climate change, the tables could turn...
- Haven't accepted cap on temperature: Shyam Saran
India's chief climate change negotiator Shyam Saran spoke exclusively to TOI as he tried to explain the Indian position on these crucial ne...
- The climate conundrum
National policy on climate change needs no longer remain on the backburner.
- India blinks on emission caps
India seems to have bent a bit due to pressure from industrialized nations.
- Forum to seek 50% global emissions cut by 2050
A multilateral forum on climate change is all set to call for a 50% cut on global emissions by 2050 and an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas ...
- Himalayan Ski Village approaches last bump
Himalayan Ski Village gets ready to give Indians the taste of skiing holidays for as low as Rs 3,000 a night.