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16-11-2009
At the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, world leaders announced on Sunday morning that a legally binding deal on climate change would be impossible to achieve at the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month.
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Image: President Barack Obama, center, stands with other APEC leaders for a group photograph following their evening dinner in Singapore/ Photo credit: AP
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12-11-2009
IPCC chairman Dr R K Pachauri has lambasted Indian environment ministry for its report that claims there is no evidence that climate change has shrunk the Himalayan glaciers. He says the assertion is based on unsubstantiated research and reeks of ‘arrogance’.
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Image: The Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than in any other part of the world and could disappear altogether by 2035 if not sooner/ Photo credit: Frederic Soltan/ Corbis
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06-11-2009
The world's religions have a crucial role to play in the fight against global climate change, UN chief said earlier this week characterising the battle against global warming as a "moral" issue. He was co-hosting an inter-faith gathering of religious and secular leaders in London.
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Image: Buddha statues at the Jade Buddhist Temple, Shanghai, China/ Photo credit: Andy Teach/ Environment News Service
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05-11-2009
Developing countries have taken on the developed nations for diverting the process of negotiations away from UNFCCC framework and Bali Action Plan. In the ongoing Barcelona talks, the G77 and China grouping launched a counter offensive against the attempt to hoist a GHG emission reduction regime on developing countries.
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Image: Barcelona climate talks/ Photo credit: Triplepundit
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02-11-2009
Cities in India belch out far less greenhouse gases than their counterparts anywhere else in the developed world. A report, to be released later this week, establishes that even though Indian economy is growing at a fast pace, it is emitting less of these gases than rich countries.
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26-10-2009
At a recent public hearing, Indian women farmers voiced their helplessness in dealing with the ramifications of global warming. While men are increasingly migrating to towns in search of employment, women are left to struggle against erratic weather patterns, rising temperatures and decreasing groundwater levels to support their families.
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20-10-2009
India’s environment minister, in a confidential letter to the Prime Minister, has obliquely suggested that the country should trash the Kyoto Protocol, delink itself from G77 and take on emission reduction commitments irrespective of any guarantees of assistance. Opposition parties are now gunning the government for its changed stance.
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19-10-2009
Before runaway climate change becomes almost inevitable, the world has to start a low carbon industrial revolution, says a new report commissioned by global conservation group WWF. The report calculates an extra $17 trillion would need to be invested up to 2050.
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Image: Beyond 2014, the upper limits of industrial growth rates will make it impossible for market economies to meet the lower carbon targets/ Photo credit: Reuters
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14-10-2009
The promise of a deal at Copenhagen may remain a pipedream as the US has refused to put down hard numbers for mitigation under the second phase of Kyoto Protocol at the recently concluded climate negotiations at Bangkok. EU also seems to be siding with it by talking of a deal-breaking condition.
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29-09-2009
UN agency’s failure to recruit climate change experts is delaying a crucial plan to help Nepal cope with the impacts of global warming. The National Adaptation Programme of Action, which is required to apply for funds, is not yet ready.
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Image: The poor are worst affected by the effects of climate change/ Getty Images
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