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. …
Inept and dubious are the only words that come to mind in describing the negotiations that have led to India endorsing the Copenhagen Accord. India chose to identify itself with the US, China, Brazil, South Africa
THOUGH media reports point to an acrimonious and anarchic Copenhagen Summit, in hindsight it appears that there has been a method in the madness. Just run through the ensuing version of Copenhagen Climate Play. Act 1: Copenhagen witnesses the expected. G77, India and China bargained hard on issues close to …
US EPA and its state and tribal partners have conducted a survey of the nation's lakes, ponds and reservoirs. This National Lakes Assessment is designed to provide statistically valid regional and national estimates of the condition of lakes. It uses a probability-based sampling design to represent the condition of all …
Priscilla Jebaraj COPENHAGEN: World leaders may have given up on saving the planet from climate change, at the UN talks here on Friday. Instead, they are negotiating a declaration which could be aimed at saving face. Leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, delayed their departure from Copenhagen on Friday evening …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 19, 2009, 0:34 IST With no signs of a possible deal at the climate summit in the Danish capital, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that future negotiations on tackling the menace should be based on equitable burden sharing as enshrined in Kyoto …
US President Barack Obama on Friday told the world to stop bickering and embrace even an imperfect new climate deal, or risk a disastrous split that would let global warming advance unchallenged. "I have to be honest, as the world watches us today, I think ability to take collective action …
HARDEV SANOTRA COPENHAGEN As the climate Dec. 18: As the climate change meeting went into overtime, the leaders of 192 nations appeared to move towards adopting a watered down "Copenhagen Accord" though wide gaps remained in the positions of developed and developing countries, leading to fears of a collapse of …
US president addresses the UNFCCC Climate summit on 18th Dec 2009 i.e., on the final day of the talks. He believes that it's time for the nations and people of the world to come together behind a common purpose. And must choose action over inaction; the future over the past …
THE Colombian elite, like their counterparts in India, are proud of the special relationship their government has forged with the United States. When most other countries in the region are railing against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S., the Colombian government is looking forward to its ratification. It …
India is in a unique predicament; it has a stake in both preventing climate change and avoiding costly mitigation. The Indraprastha Thermal Power Station in New Delhi. About one-fourth of the air pollution in Delhi is caused by industries and coal-based thermal power plants, according to the Union Ministry of …
Choosing a low-carbon path, as the government seems to be committing itself to at the negotiations, will impose huge costs on India. CLIMATE change negotiations have reached an impasse on two crucial questions. One is how the remaining carbon space will be
It has been a bumpy ride, with developed countries failing to make definite commitments and India hinting at a shift of stance. THE last leg of the climate change talks held in Barcelona, Spain, on November 2-6 in the run-up to the all-important 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to …
World leaders are racing against the clock in an attempt to forge a deal on climate change in Copenhagen that hinges on resolving sharp differences between rich and poorer nations over emissions cuts and their monitoring. All eyes at the UN summit are on China and the US, the largest …
Washington: Keen to hammer out a successful deal at the Copenhagen climate change summit, US President Barack Obama on Thursday reached out to his Brazilian counterpart Lula Da Silva and Tillman Thomas PM of Grenada to discuss the issue with the two leaders.
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 18, 2009, 0:49 IST With last-ditch efforts on to save the Copenhagen talks on climate change from failure, the Danish Presidency today said there would be no Danish draft-II. The two-track process of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and long-term cooperation agreement (LCA) would form …
STEPHEN COLLINSON Amid bickering and frustration in Copenhagen, hopes for progress towards a deal appeared to be hanging in the balance US President Barack Obama will plunge into the thick of the Copenhagen summit on Friday, arguing he has transformed US global warming policy and seeking verification guarantees in any …
