Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Developed countries wanted to pre-decide the contours of the Paris climate change agreement, which would have hurt India's interests India defended climate change red-lines at G20 meeting At a recently concluded talks of G20 countries, India prevented an attempt to pre-decide the contours of the Paris climate change agreement outside …
What will happen at the Paris climate change conference of parties? This December, as leaders gather at the 21st annual congregation to resolve the global crisis, the world has changed somewhat. There is a growing acceptance verging on unanimity that climate is changing, but it is the poor who are …
Heads of state invited to climate talks in Paris starting on Nov. 30 have confirmed they will attend even after the Nov. 13 attacks by Islamic State militants that killed 130 people, a French presidency source said. "None of the heads of state or government has canceled," the source told …
The International Consortium for Africa (ICA) has said it will support the continent to achieve its target of producing 300GW of power from renewable energy sources by 2030. The members of the group say such a feat could be the game-changer for Africa. At the ICA’s 11th Annual Meeting jointly …
US president Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was optimistic an elusive deal to contain global warming could be forged at an upcoming crunch summit in Paris, and insisted an ambitious deal would boost a flagging world economy. In a speech to an Asia-Pacific business conference in the Philippines, Obama …
More than 190 countries will gather in Paris later this month for a two-week annual climate change conference that is expected to deliver a global agreement this year. India will not agree to any proposal at the climate change negotiations that will seek to restrict the use of coal as …
The upcoming UN climate change conference should consider the role of nuclear of power in producing electricity with low environmental impact, according to Yukio Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). “Nuclear power has low environmental impact and leads to significant avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions,” he …
The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting fast, agricultural heartland is drying up and the national capital New Delhi is choking on the world's filthiest air. Global warming is already changing the face of rapidly developing India, predicted to become the world's most populous, overtaking China, in less than a …
Leaders of the world’s leading economies said on Monday that the Paris agreement on climate change should be “fair, balanced, ambitious, durable and dynamic”. In what was the toughest paragraph to be negotiated in the G-20 summit communique this year, leaders of the world’s leading economies said on Monday that …
Consumer goods firm Unilever and Elon Musk's Tesla have been identified by global sustainability experts as having made the biggest contribution to climate solutions over the past five years. More than 600 sustainability experts from business, government, NGOs and academia in 69 countries around the world were polled for a …
Leaders of the world’s top economies on Monday vowed to seek a deal to curb climate change at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, according to a draft statement drawn up in tough, all-night talks. Negotiators at a Group of 20 summit in Turkey haggled into the early hours as …
The decision to use the Montreal Protocol to reduce the impact of refrigerants on global warming is a step forward ahead of the Paris climate summit. (Editorial)
Stockholm: Saudi Arabia, whose oil-fueled economy could suffer from global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, today submitted a climate action pledge to the United Nations. Though thin on commitments, the Saudi pledge was symbolically important because the desert kingdom has been seen as reluctant to join the fight against …
Voting is open to the public now till November 30th 2015 Mobile Film Festival is an officialevent of the COP21 1 Mobile - 1 Minute - 1 Film Paris, November 3, 2015 – The Mobile Film Festival announced today its official selection consisting of 75 one-minute films from 27 countries …
Homes belonging to more than half a billion people could be submerged by rising sea levels if the current rate of global warming continues, scientists have said. A 2C increase in the Earth's temperature would result in houses occupied by 130 millon people being left underwater by rising sea levels, …
The White House launched a Facebook (FB.O) page on Monday for President Barack Obama and used the social media platform to send a message on climate change. Organizing for Action, the political organization that helped elect Obama, has long used an account under the name "Barack Obama." But the new …
PARIS: More than 60 environment and energy ministers tasked with inking a global pact in December to rein in climate change, meet in Paris from Sunday seeking to narrow political rifts. The three-day gathering comes days after the UN issued a fresh warning that current carbon-cutting pledges go nowhere near …
France’s top diplomat, who will preside over a year-end Paris summit tasked with inking a global pact to rein in global warming, warned Sunday of a looming planetary “catastrophe”. With the key UN conference just three weeks away, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius also announced that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would …
The Indian government plans to ramp up its public outreach on the Paris climate change agreement. For the first time an inter-ministerial team of officials has been formed to pro-actively push the country's messaging at a time when the global conversation on the event is reaching fever pitch. Unlike most …
Developing countries must negotiate strongly in the environment summit in Paris for "fairness and equity" to enable them to meet their developmental needs, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) chief Sunita Narain said on Thursday. "Fairness and equity are key for ensuring developing countries are able to meet their development …
