In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
New Delhi, July 8: Nobel Prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Dr R.K. Pachauri says Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), which has been reluctant in accepting IPCC's predictions on climate change, has unsatisfactory state of affairs. Dr Pachauri is one of the members of Prime Minister's council on …
Sapporo, Japan July 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to counter US pressure to commit India to a 50 per cent cut in greenhouse emissions when he meets US President George W. Bush on Wednesday by telling the Americans that developed nations should go first because they had created …
Global warming isn't just a problem of cars and smokestacks but of the chain saw, too. The phrase "carbon emissions" usually conjures images of coal-burning power plants or smog-enveloped cities. Less widely appreciated is the role of trees as a source of emissions. When a tree dies or a forest …
Business Standard / New Delhi July 04, 2008, 0:37 IST The much-awaited national action plan on climate change, unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of his departure for Japan to attend the G-8 summit as a special invitee, was patently timed to serve as a bargaining tool at the …
Disunity and recrimination marked the start of France's European Union presidency on Tuesday as Nicolas Sarkozy exchanged accusations with the European Commission over world trade talks. The French president denounced Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, in a television interview on Monday evening for allegedly selling out EU farmers
Looking down from space, the night sky in the Gulf of Guinea offshore Nigeria is lit up by the flares that burn natural gas from oil fields. This gas is burned without a use and contributes greenhouse gases to the global warming problem. This gas is not only an untapped …
Adverse conditions such as ground contamination, high temperature, humidity, fluctuating temperature and relative humidity can reduce the life span of the structure, says A.R.Santhakumar Determinant: A major factor influencing the service life of concrete structures is the nature of exposure conditions. Generally Reinforced concrete apartment buildings in India lasts only …
June 25: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-m
In a sprawling greenhouse with shiny silver ducts running through, stacks of cardboard boxes feature prints of a flower alongside the distinctive red Toyota logo. In an experiment aimed at putting to use some of the carbon dioxide blamed for global warming, the giant auto group is using Asia's largest …
Are countries that regulate greenhouse gases exposing their industries to unfair competition from those that do not? In America they call it the China question. In Europe they call it the America question. In every country that has contemplated regulating greenhouse gases, it is seen as a problem: how can …
Buildings are known to be responsible for half of global carbon dioxide emissions Threat to ecology: Buildings have been indirectly contributing to carbon di oxide emissions globally. The global property industry could pay a high price for moving too slowly to shrink its colossal carbon footprint, a report to a …
Kolkata: Supporting the controversial India-U.S. nuclear deal, R. Chidambaram, chairman of the Union Cabinet's Scientific Advisory Committee, said here on Monday that the deal, if operationalised, will secure uranium supply for the country's reactors as well as facilitate technological collaboration with countries having nuclear know-how. He was speaking to newspersons …
For the first time in history, oil prices breached the $135 per barrel mark last month. Since then, prices have ebbed slightly but the fallout in India is just the beginning. On June 5, the Central Government bravely increased petrol, diesel and LPG prices. This year oil subsidies are likely …
Hong Kong companies that reduce their carbon dioxide emissions in the city can now sell those cutbacks in a $12.9bn global carbon credit market created under the Kyoto protocol. The new arrangements, announced by the Hong Kong government yesterday, are a step towards rectifying an anomaly created by China's "one …
This is last of a three-part series on carbon and climate change to show how global adversity can be changed into an opportunity Priyadarshi Shukla Ahmedabad: There is an evolving carbon market where carbon offsets are traded. The largest is the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS) established for offsetting …
The fight against climate change cannot succeed unless the people of India and China join the effort at a mass level Jotdeep Singh The Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are by now reasonably well known to the organisations and companies involved with the climate change space in …
