The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The Prime Minister has released India's national action plan on climate change. For those engaged in the business of environment and climate, the plan may offer nothing new or radical. But, as I see it, the plan asserts India can grow differently, because "it is in an early stage of …
India unveils strategy to counter climate change INDIA released its much-anticipated action plan to mitigate and adapt to climate change on June 30, almost a year after it was announced. Coming a week ahead of the G-8 summit, the plan was welcomed by both industry and environment groups, though not …
Enlarge view Of the 27 EU countries, 15 continue to be major emitters Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in EU-27 decreased by 7.7 per cent between 1990 and 2006, while in 2005-2006, emissions decreased by 0.3 per cent (in 2007, EU-27 made a commitment to achieve at least 20 per cent …
The Hokkaido communique on climate change of the Group of Eight countries does not lay down targets for emissions reductions in the developed countries. Yet the G-8 asks developing countries to take more meaningful mitigation actions. How does India
The Hokkaido communique on climate change of the Group of Eight countries does not lay down targets for emissions reductions in the developed countries. Yet the G-8 asks developing countries to take more meaningful mitigation actions. How does India's new national action plan propose to deal with climate change and …
Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) will be launching its i20 model by end of this year. Mr H S Lheem, managing director and CEO, HMIL said that the new model would be launched for both domestic and international markets. "With i20, Hyundai will complete its portfolio in the compact car …
US President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit. As he prepared to fly out from his final G8 summit in Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.' President Bush …
Any understanding of global warming must consider the relative contribution to the problem by the richer countries and the rich, over the poorer countries and the poor who are the most affected due to the problem. The legal regime adopted to solve the issue should place the poor and human …
Toyako: Opposing any move to impose quantitative restrictions for greenhouse emissions on developing countries, India on Wednesday asked the industrialised world not to use climate change to introduce conditionalities or "protectionism' that will hinder their efforts to meet the already complex development challenges. In his intervention at the Major Economies …
By JOSEPH COLEMAN Rusutsu (Japan) July 8: Leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets. The Group of Eight countries, the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada …
By Suneel Sinha Sapporo, Japan, July 8: India's foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said here on Tuesday that it was "for those who have generated the greenhouse gases that are in the environment today to take the cuts to reduce gases. It's not for the developing countries (to do so). Our …
No global climate change pact could be fruitful without including India and China, US president George Bush said on Sunday as leaders from G8 nations prepared to thrash out a long-term deal to face global warming. "I'll be constructive,' Bush said after talks with Japanese premier Yasuo Fukuda, but "we're …
Much of the scientific and public focus on anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions have been on climate impacts. Emission targets have been suggested based primarily on arguments for preventing climate from shifting significantly from its preindustrial state. However, recent studies underline a second major impact of carbon emissions: ocean acidification. Over …
Measuring the costs and benefits of projects intended to offset the emission of greenhouse gases is one of many thorny issues that the state of California must tackle as it begins drafting a cap-and-trade system of carbon credits.
The world's most pressing problems will be the focus of G8 talks next week, when leaders from rich nations and major emerging economies meet in Toyako on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. More than 30 years on, oil prices are again high on the agenda for the G8 gathering, which …
