This report discusses how Denmark - a country whose major agricultural organizations have committed to become carbon neutral by 2050 - can achieve carbon neutral agriculture. The report’s lessons can inform not only Denmark’s agricultural future, but also that of other advanced agricultural economies.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh commended the commitments made by Chinese President Hu Jintao during the high-level Climate Change Summit here and said India can learn lessons from China to help save the planet.
As the Copenhagen Conference on climate change draws nearer, South Asia, which appears poised for severe threats from the impacts of climate change, faces a stiff challenge on two fronts. For one, South Asia
Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), a firm planning to build a 300 MW windfarm in Kenya, said on Tuesday it had signed an exclusivity deal with Denmark's Vestas and would be signing a final agreement in October. LTWP intends to erect at least 353 wind turbines, each with a capacity …
Pune On Tuesday, a famliar face of the industry in Pune will be attending the United Nations Leadership Forum on Climate Change, at the the United Nations headquarters in New York. Pramod Chaudhari, chairman, Praj Industries Limited, global leaders in biofuels solutions, will participate in the Forum. The UN Leadership …
For just about 20 years now, the world has taken increasing note of its changing climate marked by global warming; and looked hard for ways to check this process and curb its impact. That long-drawn and painstaking process will be in global limelight when the World Climate Conference takes place …
Denmark on Thursday inaugurated the world's biggest offshore wind farm in time to serve as a showcase of its green technological prowess before a global climate conference in Copenhagen in December. The 91-turbine Horns Rev 2 wind farm off the west coast of Jutland in the North Sea will generate …
A U.N. climate deal to in Copenhagen in December will also be vital to guide trade and development policies, Denmark's Prime Minister said on Thursday. Lars Lokke Rasmussen told Reuters he hoped that a summit of world leaders at U.N. headquarters on September 22 would be a "tipping point" to …
About 18 per cent of Bangladesh land will go under water and much of the Maldives would submerge following sea level rise at certain level, 'World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change' released yesterday in advance of the December meetings on climate change in Copenhagen said. "Rising sea levels …
At least 4.5 million children could die if wealthy nations fail to provide more funds to help impoverished countries combat global warming, development charity Oxfam warned Wednesday. The organisation said in a report it was concerned that industrialised nations would take money out of existing funds dedicated to economic development …
China is on track to meet ambitious targets for moderating greenhouse gas emissions, according to an independent report. E3G, the climate change think-tank that published the report, suggests that if China continued at this pace of improvement it would be able to meet the demands of developed nations at the …
The European Union's environment chief challenged developing countries yesterday to agree at the Copenhagen climate summit in December to rein in their emissions growth in return for greater financial aid. Stavros Dimas, the environment commissioner, set out the conditions as he unveiled the European Commission's long-awaited financing proposal, under which …
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister of Denmark Lars Lekke Rasmussen will be here on Friday to discuss issues related to climate change and the Copenhagen conference. At a meeting with Prime Minister to Manmohan Singh, he will also have discussed bilateral and international issues.
The Maldives, whose fight against rising sea levels has become a cause celebre for environmentalists, said on Monday it would have to skip UN climate change talks in Copenhagen this year to save money.
The Maldives, one of the countries most at risk from rising sea levels, will not attend this year's Copenhagen summit on climate change because the atoll nation is broke, its president said Monday. President Mohamed Nasheed told reporters in the capital Male that his newly-elected government had no money to …
Failure to find agreement at United Nations climate change talks in Copenhagen in December would threaten a much needed overhaul of the international trading system, Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organisation, warned yesterday. His comments highlighted concerns that a breakdown in discussions about reducing greenhouse gas emissions might …
It will cost between $500 billion and $600 billion every year for the next 10 years to allow developing nations to grow using renewable energy resources, instead of relying on dirty fuels that worsen global warming, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. That astronomical estimate, far higher than …
