COP30 climate summit negotiators face challenges in agreeing on fossil fuel transition. This makes adaptation to a hotter world a crucial f...

"It's good to hear a special mention of climate change and air pollution in the budget speech. Union Budget earmarked Rs 4,400 cr for Natio...

A blueprint for a pact to cap greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming was delivered by negotiators from 195 nations as India hoped...

The National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) is one of the eight National missions which form the core of India’s fi...

"It is a very ambitious target," Javadekar said, after India submitted a new plan for tackling climate change to the UN ahead of a major en...

"Such an international compact of cooperation would help us tread a path that is urgently required to address climate change and its advers...

The Bay of Bengal region will undergo a dire and drastic transformation unless urgent action is taken to deal with the disastrous effects o...

Prakash Javadekar who is in Cairo to attend an important conference on environment noted that developing African countries and India.

Ahead of the UN climate conference in Paris later this year, India on Wednesday said that adaptation and mitigation must be accorded "equal...

"Finance for climate action flowing globally stood at $650 billion annually in 2011-2012, and possibly higher," the report said.

Additional Economic Adviser Ministry of Finance, said, the figure ranges from $340 bn to $650 bn, given gaps in data.

Conference has to agree on a draft agreement which would form cornerstone of a historic deal to be signed in Paris in Dec 2015 & take effec...

The UN-backed IPCC chief R K Pachauri, economist Nitin Desai and retired diplomat Chandrasekar Dasgupta have once again found place in the ...

Unchecked global warming will exacerbate fresh-water scarcity as well as hurt food production, driving up prices and increasing food insecu...

Developing nations feel that postponing has stymied efforts by industrialised countries to focus on emission reduction in agriculture.

India, along with other developing countries has succeeded in ensuring that there is no discussion on agriculture.

The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change will hold a meeting tomorrow under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to disc...