Germanwatch climate report on India not all encompassing: GovernmentThe 'Global Climate Risk Index-2018' by Germanwatch ranked India as the sixth most affected country in the world in the year 2016 facing ex...
'India's temperature rose by 0.60 degree over last 110 years'According to the Indian Meteorological Department, in line with rising temperatures across the globe, all India mean temperatures have rise...
'Annual mean surface air temperature to rise by 1.7 degree C by 2030s'A government study has projected a rise in the annual mean surface air temperature in India by 1.7 degrees Celsius by 2030s, Rajya Sabha wa...
Prepare plan for climate change expeditiously: National Green Tribunal to statesNGT has directed the states and Union Territories to "expeditiously" prepare their action plans on climate change in according with the Cen...
Climate change issue beyond National Green Tribunal's jurisdiction: MoEFAccordingly, any statutory obligation on the MoEF regarding the issue of climate change do not arise out of the enactments listed under Sch...
Economic Survey 2015: Global climate pact should address needs of developing nations"Global climate action rests heavily on the means of implementation, especially finance and tech, and agreement should address this," surve...
Emission intensity of GDP to be reduced by 20-25% by 2020"India and other developing countries do not have legally-binding emission reduction commitments with regard to reducing GHG", Javadekar sa...
Plea on climate change: National Green Tribunal seeks Centre's responseThe plea claimed that no states offered a clear, consistent and well argued set of recommendations with either a vision or an action plan.
Reconstituted climate panel reviews progress by national missionsSuggestions were also made to launch new national missions in the field of Wind Energy, Health, Waste to Energy conversion and coastal mana...
Narendra Modi government may revive Prime Minister's Council on Climate ChangeThe PM’s Council on Climate Change constituted by the UPA govt in 2007 last met in February 2011 and limited itself to assessing the eight ...
- IPCC chairman wants new government to fight climate change with all its might
The IPCC chairman rued that though the government had made the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) six years ago, it could not b...
Climate Parliament recommends policy integration for renewable energy development to PMThe Centre aims to achieve `electricity for all’ by 2027 while 75 million households still don’t have access to electricity and only two pe...
- Centre okays plan to assess impact of climate change
The government also cleared a proposal to set up an institute on climate change studies in the name of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
- PM' council on climate change constituted
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today constituted a high-level panel consisting of cabinet secretary and secretaries from various ministries ...
- Pachauri urges PM to attend summit
With barely five days to go before the Copenhagen summit on climate change, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change chief R K Pachauri o...
- No study to prove adverse impact of climate change on crops
The government said there is no conclusive scientific study to substantiate that the recent floods in coastal areas, drought and shortfall ...
- Global warming could gulp Sabarmati: Panel
The Sabarmati riverfront development project could be under threat. The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) has thrown up a scen...