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20-11-2009
OneClimate.net has launched a new interactive TV channel that allows people across the world to watch the Copenhagen climate conference live on their computer. The channel will feature breaking stories, an opportunity to interact with experts, as also crowd-sourced and crowd-distribution system to ease out participation from people worldwide.
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Image: Logo of OneWorld TV/ Photo credit: OneWorld
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20-11-2009
New findings are pointing towards the fact that average global temperatures are on course to rise up to dangerous six degree Celsius. It is therefore mandatory for world leaders to take urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, says the lead author of the report.
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Image: Fossil fuel emissions are rising with GDP, particularly in developing countries/ Photo credit: Getty Images
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19-11-2009
US and Chinese presidents have expressed their desire to tackle climate change. President Obama wants next month's talks in Copenhagen to produce something more than "an agreement to have an agreement" at a future date.
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Image: US president Barack Obama at the Great Wall of China/ Photo credit: Huffington Post
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19-11-2009
Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This will not only help tackle the rapid deforestation but will also generate income for the poor.
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Image: Putting Nepal's forests in the hands of community people/ Photo credit: Community Forestry Workshop
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18-11-2009
Developed nations are putting pressure on India to agree to cut its carbon emissions at the next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. In the country’s most industrialised state, Gujarat, people are at it to prove that the answer to low-carbon growth lies in homegrown solutions.
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Image: Cow dung is a key part of the Gujarat project/ Photo credit: BBC
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18-11-2009
A new report has predicted that carbon dioxide emissions globally are set to drop because of the slowdown in economic activities. The report however cautions that that the dip could be very short-lived, given the strong link between emissions and economic activity.
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Image: Carbon emissions have come down due to economic slowdown/ Photo credit: Reuters
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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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13-11-2009
US President Barack Obama will try to salvage fading hopes for a deal in Copenhagen as he meets leaders of China and India later this month. The world's three most populous nations are deeply at odds over the shape of a Copenhagen deal.
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12-11-2009
The Vulnerable Forum (V11), comprising 11 countries such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, Nepal, the Maldives and others, have pledged to work towards low carbon future. They have challenged richer countries to match their efforts.
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Image: Some countries believe climate change will increase the need for food aid/ Photo credit: AP
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10-11-2009
Contrary to the view held by global climatologists, a new report of Geological Survey of India has revealed that the Himalayan glaciers are not shrinking as fast as they are believed. It says that while some of the glaciers are retreating, others are advancing such as the Siachen glacier.
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Image: The Himalayan glaciers are shrinking/ Photo credit: Water Secrets
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