As the snow-capped peak of Mt Everest looked down, the Nepal cabinet held a historic meeting at Kalapatthar, located 17,192 feet above sea level, on Friday to highlight impact of climate change on Himalayas, reports Utpal Parashar.
India set its first emission target on Thursday, announcing it would reduce emission intensity by 20-25 per cent of its 2005 level by 2020. Chetan Chauhan reports.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned there was no "magic pudding" solution to climate change on Thursday as he lashed out over the defeat of his flagship carbon-trading scheme.
Just before world leaders assemble in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, the Global Attitudes survey by the respected Pew Research Centre shows 67 per cent Indians are worried about global warming as against just 30 per cent Chinese.
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Special CoveragePushed to the wall by China’s swift moves on climate change, India is likely to announce a carbon-intensity reduction target in Parliament today, three days before delegates from 192 countries meet in Copenhagen to negotiate an agreement to save the world from global warming.
Chetan Chauhan and
Anupama Airy report.
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Special CoveragePrime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the United Nations climate summit at Copenhagen will depend on the possibility of a binding climate treaty.
Why do we look so helpless in the face of climate change? It is not creating new monsters but droughts, floods and cyclones that we have braved for centuries, writes Richard Mahapatra.
In the Sundarbans, surface water temperature has been rising at the rate of 0.5 degree Celsius per decade over the past three decades, eight times the rate of global warming, says a new study. That makes the Sundarbans one of the worst climate change hotspots on the globe.
Rising temperatures are raising sea levels in coastal Orissa. In Kendrapara district, all that’s left of a cluster of seven
villages is a few mud huts. And the Bay of Bengal is still marching forward, writes Kumkum Dasgupta.
Global climate talks at Copenhagen on December 5 would be at a "dead end" if a Danish draft proposal, urging the world adopt 2020 as the year when the emissions will peak, is put forward, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
India will reveal in the coming days its goals to curb greenhouse gas emissions, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday after face-to-face talks here with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Warning that climate change was posing "existential" threat to several small countries, the 53-nation Commonwealth today said the upcoming Copenhagen meet should come out with an ambitious mitigation outcome as there was a need for an "urgent and substantial" action to reduce global emissions.
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Full coverageChina, India, South Africa and Brazil have united to draw the battle-lines for the Copenhagen climate summit, after their own surprise seven-hour summit skillfully staged by the Chinese leadership in Beijing on Saturday, reports Reshma Patil.
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Rejecting the widespread pessimism about next month’s Copenhagen conference on climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said countries must “try to achieve as much convergence as possible” towards a “legally binding outcome.”, reports
Varghese K. George.