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. …
HARDEV SANOTRA Financial Chronicle COPENHAGEN The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday raised the level of pressure on China and India saying America will be willing to contribute to the $100 billion fund every year by 2020 for climate change, provided countries like China and India offer to …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 17, 2009, 0:40 IST The Danish chair of the UN talks on climate change, Connie Hedegaard, today stepped down and was replaced by Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. Hedegaard
ARUN KUMAR WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama will make an attempt to convince India and China that it's in their interest to curb emissions as he goes to attend the climate summit in Copenhagen where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other global leaders would be in attendance. Mr Obama, who …
HARDEV SANOTRA Financial Chronicle COPENHAGEN In a sign of mounting pressure on India and other developing countries, A top US representative has said that India, China and other developing must accept international measuring and verification regime on steps they are taking to tackle climate change. Senator John Kerry, a Democrat …
As a result of various proposals currently under consideration by EPA, it seems highly likely that many stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions will face new regulation under the Clean Air Act in coming months. Since applicability of the PSD and Title V programs is, at least in EPA's eyes, …
The fifth Climate Change Performance Index released by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network at Copenhagen. This is a comparison of the 57 industrialised countries and emerging economies. See Also: Report: S&P;/IFCI Carbon Efficient Index. www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293414 Report: Global Peatland CO2 picture. www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/290548 Report: U.S. proposed carbon tariffs www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293198 Report: Low carbon …
The longest-running trade dispute of the modern era came to a close last night when parties from Europe, Latin America, the US, the Caribbean and Africa initialled a treaty in Geneva to end the so-called banana wars. The dispute pre-dated the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995, outlasted …
Energy prices will have to rise if companies are to make the investments needed to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the head of the world's largest wind power company has said. Ignacio Gal
An interview with leading environmentalist and political activist from India, Sunita Narain on the future of the Kyoto Protocol which industrialized nations led by the United States are seeking to dismantle.
Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA), on December 7, 2009 announced to the world that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people, and therefore, can be considered an air pollutant under the US’s Clean Air Act. The US …
Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of over half a million Ethiopians, figures commissioned by hosts Denmark show. Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their …
Copenhagen, Dec. 14: India, China and 128 other countries briefly walked out of the climate change talks here today in protest against the failure of industrialised countries to make firm commitments on greenhouse gas emission cuts in the years beyond 2012. The walkout by the developing countries followed an exchange …
Jairam RameshThe United States today unveiled a $350-million multinational effort to help provide clean energy technology to developing countries, including India, to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce global warming. The Climate Renewable and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) was unveiled at an event on the sidelines of the 12-day …
Washington next year will host a global forum between developed and developing countries on clean energy and climate change, US energy secretary Steven Chu announced on Monday. The ministerial-level meeting will be the first held in Washington by the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a working group of the world's biggest …
In 1886, the town of great Barrington, Mass., set up the first alternating-current electrical transmission line in the U.S. In the nearly 125 years since, the products we run with electricity have changed incalculably, but in many ways, the massive grid that delivers that power has barely changed at all. …
DESPITE the gloomy talk that preceded the UN climate conference, the opening was upbeat. Most big countries had vowed to cut or limit emissions during the previous few weeks. As delegates arrived, America
TORN flesh is easy to put back together with stitches, but when bone breaks, repairs are nowhere near as simple. Bones with fractures that run in a straight line can often be placed back in their proper alignment and set in a cast to heal. Compound fractures, however
China hit back at the US yesterday for belittling its commitment to tackling climate change as negotiations in Copenhagen on reaching a new agreement on global warming moved into a higher gear. On the fifth day of talks, the United Nations published an official draft text from which countries are …
