Climate change is stunting our economic growthThe amount of planetary heating already in the pipeline as a result of a century of pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will make ...
23 Apr, 2024, 10.02 AM IST
Climate change damage could cost $38 trillion per year by 2050, study findsGerman government-backed research predicts that climate change will cost an estimated $38 trillion per year by 2050, affecting farming, inf...
17 Apr, 2024, 09.41 PM IST
Add inflation to reasons to worry about climate changeThe future warming could lift global food inflation by 0.9% to 3.3% a year by 2035, according to the study, and total inflation could be 0....
19 Oct, 2023, 09.45 AM IST
Green Electricity can become cheapest energy by 2050, says study"Our research finds that relation can be pretty much reversed by 2050, making the easy-to-decarbonise electricity the mainstay of global en...
27 Nov, 2021, 11.51 AM IST
CO2 levels hit record high in 3 million yearsScientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany succeeded to do a computer simulation that fits ocean floor se...
05 Apr, 2019, 07.57 AM IST
Ice melt, a mega-city riskMelting Antarctica glaciers due to global warming may push up sea levels faster than previously believed, potentially threatening megacitie...
20 Aug, 2014, 03.29 PM IST
Delay in climate policy would triple short-term mitigation costs: StudyDelaying action to tackle climate change raises the cost of reducing emissions and makes it tougher to garner political will and public sup...
18 Sep, 2013, 06.08 AM IST
IEA suggests measure to control global temperature riseGiven the co-relation between GDP and emission rates, the IEA recognises that India’s emissions are related to the stage in economic develo...
20 Jun, 2013, 11.54 AM IST
Rising carbon dioxide levels lowering rice yieldsRising levels of carbon dioxide are lowering the high grain yields of dwarf rice varieties, says a new research from Germany.
02 Dec, 2012, 06.16 PM IST
- Potsdam, Germany: City of confluences
Strolling through the magnificent palaces and parks of Potsdam, Prakash Dubey came to understand why this city has been a fountainhead of E...
20 Jan, 2011, 08.43 AM IST
- Apec takes a fresh shot at Doha round
Ministers responsible for half the world’s trade meet in Australia this week to try to revive global talks some say are on their deathbed.
04 Jul, 2007, 12.10 AM IST
- India wants WTO talks in Geneva
After disengaging itself from the Group of Four, India has informed the WTO that it wants the Doha talks, which is aimed at achieving globa...
25 Jun, 2007, 03.11 PM IST
- Bajaj supports Kamal Nath on walkout at G4 meet
Bajaj group chief Rahul Bajaj, on Sunday, supported commerce minister Kamal Nath’s walkout at the Potsdam G4 meet on the Doha round.
25 Jun, 2007, 12.54 AM IST
- Developing world can't be split, G4's history: Nath
The failure of the G-4 meeting at Potsdam in Germany to narrow the gaps in the ongoing multilateral trade negotiations has done more harm t...
23 Jun, 2007, 04.10 AM IST
- No role for G-4 in WTO talks: Nath
India said there is no future for the grouping of 4 key WTO members for breaking the impasse.
22 Jun, 2007, 05.12 PM IST
- Indian tariffs on US wine under WTO scanner
WTO will be examining US claims that Indian import duties unfairly discriminate against US wines & spirits.
20 Jun, 2007, 08.55 PM IST
- WTO back on burner in Germany
US, EU, Brazil and India met on Tuesday for talks to break deadlock over a global trade deal.
19 Jun, 2007, 05.00 PM IST