Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
NEW DELHI: Consensus eluded a meeting of key countries on climate change, including India, EU, China and the US, called by Spain along with South Africa and Mexico at Madrid recently. The meeting called days before the official UN climate talks start in Durban ended without agreement between countries on …
Washington: Astronomers have discovered two clouds of gas which they believe were formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang that created the universe. The discovery, the first to detect these gas clouds, adds more support to what is already the most widely accepted theory of how our …
The United States expects Asia Pacific leaders on Sunday to take a "significant step" toward reducing tariffs and other barriers that block trade in environmentally-friendly good and services, a senior administration official said on Sunday. "We're in a good place. We has some very constructive discussions around the important issue …
The U.S. government on Thursday delayed approval of a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline until after the 2012 U.S. election, bowing to pressure from environmentalists and sparing President Barack Obama a damaging split with liberal voters he may need to win reelection. The decision to explore a new route for TransCanada Corp's …
With the Kyoto Protocol unlikely to produce a new set of targets, Carbon Forum Asia 2011 which concluded in Singapore last week, released IETA’s Greenhouse Gas Market Report for the first time in Asia Pacific, lending credence to the region’s increasing importance in the global emissions trading market. President of …
Warns US of retaliatory measures. China has reacted sharply to the inquiry launched by the US Department of Commerce into the alleged unfair trade practices adopted by China in the United States for selling solar cells and panels. The Coalition for American Solar Manufacturing (CASM) had filed a petition with …
The central government has planned a push for cotton farmers on regulatory concerns. It also has financial help in mind. It is to introduce the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill in Parliament’s winter session. Vilasrao Deshmukh, minister for science and technology, told the World Cotton Research Conference the performance …
The US has criticised India’s plan to invite bids for solar power projects worth Rs 4,200 crore which, it said, favours local manufacturers and shuts out advanced technology from abroad. US under-secretary for international trade Francisco Sanchez told a CII event on Monday that programmes like the Jawaharlal Nehru National …
There have been periodic droughts in the American southwest for millenia. A new study at the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has revealed a previously unknown multi-decade drought period in the second century A.D which was in the middle of the Roman era. The findings give further evidence that extended …
Global carbon emissions last year exceeded worst-case scenario predictions from just four years before, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). A rise of 6 percent (564 million additional tons) over 2009 levels was largely driven by three nations: the US, India, and China. Emissions from burning coal jumped …
Deaths and health problems from floods, drought and other U.S. disasters related to climate change cost an estimated $14 billion over the last decade, researchers said on Monday. "When extreme weather hits, we hear about the property damage and insurance costs," said Kim Knowlton, a senior scientist at Natural Resources …
China's largest solar power plant developer has put a planned $500 million U.S. project on hold over an anti-dumping trade dispute, the company's general manager said on Monday. CECEP Solar Energy Technology Co Ltd, a unit of the state-owned giant China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, said a planned …
Mexico will earn a royalty on carbon credits generated from energy-saving light bulbs through a world-first deal that could pave the way for other developing countries to fund emissions cuts, the investor said on Monday. Under the project, an Australian company, Cool nrg International, advised by Bank of America Merrill …
Australia's Senate is set to pass laws on Tuesday putting a national price on carbon emissions, one of the country's most sweeping and divisive economic reforms that have been a decade in the making. Opposition leader Tony Abbott has run a two-year campaign to wreck the scheme, seizing on voter …
U.S. goals of establishing regional free trade and an environmental policy at the APEC summit are useful but too ambitious for some developing nations, China said on Monday, days before President Hu Jintao heads to Hawaii for the meeting. APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) members from 20 countries have taken a …
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to call Tuesday for a new push by the U.S. and other countries to harness recent science to stem the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Government researchers believe science has now developed sufficient tools to contain the pandemic, which erupted 30 years ago, has infected more …
