Nepal has made significant efforts towards low-emission development, using government tools to encourage finance flows towards climate action. However, achieving its ambitions will be difficult given current
Power generation has received a serious set-back after Lower Jhelum Power Project developed snag at Uri, Jammu and
India has sought changes in the existing TRIPs agreement to include provisions for the protection of traditional knowledge and preventing bio-piracy. Other developing countries have supported the
The US government is supporting Rajendra K Pachauri, director general of Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), as chairman of UN's International Climate Change Group. Pachauri is being supported by
Canadian Industry Minister Allan Rock denied this week that Ottawa was giving mixed signals on whether it still supports the Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But Rock also told a
The Bush administration, at the urging of the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, is trying to oust Robert Watson, the British scientist and chairman since 1996 of the panel that has advised the
UK greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to decline, but emissions of carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas - have increased for the second year in succession. So says a new report by the
Scientists studying in the impact of global warming are forecasting that the phenomenon would further increase disease, famine and poverty in Africa. In a report, the Intergovernmental Panel on
The explosive growth of greenhouse agriculture has made Almeria province one of Europe's most remarkable economic success stories. But the use of vast amounts of water for hydroponic cultivation in
Decks have been cleared to bring the much needed Narmada water within few years to Bhopal in order to solve the drinking water problem plaguing the
Britain's spot market in greenhouse gas emissions trading got off to a sluggish start with many companies still busy assessing their strategies, brokers Natsource said. No physical spot deals were
