| Experts for building consensus on climate change | 21-NOV-09 |
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| All the nations across the world need to come together and build a consensus on tackling global warming which threatens to raise the average temperature of the earth by 4-6°C by the end of this century and consequently have a catastrophic effect on environment and people. |
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| The wolf and the lamb | 18-NOV-09 |
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| So the Copenhagen summit on climate change has been killed even before it has started. The US and other countries have formally recognised that the summit next month will not achieve its basic objective of working out a post-Kyoto accord on future commitments with regard to the emission of greenhouse gases. The rich countries, aware of their role in bringing about this denouement, have been trying for weeks to pin the blame on China and India, but this attempt is so blatantly at variance with the facts that no one is fooled. The nails began to get hammered into Copenhagen’s coffin at the preparatory meeting in Thailand last month, when the rich countries made it clear for the first time that they wanted to dump the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, with its binding commitments on emission reductions, and work on a new slate where basic fairness would not be an operating principle. |
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| 'More Indian CEOs concerned about climate change risk' | 17-NOV-09 |
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| The percentage of Indian CEOs, who are concerned about the risks of climate change, has nearly doubled over the past year, even as majority of firms do not currently have a climate change strategy in place, a survey says. |
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| Cooperate on climate change, PM tells Saran, Ramesh | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has instructed Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh and the PM's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran to sit together and formulate a "joint statement" on India's approach to the Copenhagen Climate Summit scheduled for December 7 to 18.
Alarmed by the confusion created by the public expression of divergent opinions by his key advisors on climate change, the prime minister summoned Saran and Ramesh and asked them to put their |
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| Meat of the matter | 15-NOV-09 |
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| Intense debate on non-vegetarianism continues with flexitarianism emerging as the new diet fad. |
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| Action on climate change can trigger job opportunities: Rudd | 12-NOV-09 |
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| Action on climate change can trigger job opportunities and enhance economic potential of countries, as the cost of "inaction" is enormous, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today. "In Australia's case, we are among the hottest and driest continents on earth and the impact therefore, on our economy and on our people, due to inaction is huge and so, is it worldwide," Rudd said at a function organised by FICCI here. |
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| India needs global support on climate change: Saran | 11-NOV-09 |
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| Reiterating India’s stance on climate change, that the country did not expect external financing or technology for its domestic actions, Shyam Saran, the prime minister’s special envoy on climate change, said it would be legitimate to ask for global support if we were doing something more. |
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| Climate change talks deadlocked: Saran | 11-NOV-09 |
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| Efforts to achieve a global agreement to address climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December are at a deadlock, Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India on Climate Change, told participants at the India Economic Summit on Tuesday. |
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| India can show the way on climate change, says Jairam | 10-NOV-09 |
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| India can play a leadership role in crafting the solution to climate change and will have a “constructive and pragmatic view” in the climate change discussions in Copenhagen to be held in December this year, says Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh. |
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| Climate change: PM seeks developed world's funds | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India would continue to work with like-minded people to make the Copenhagen climate change conference a success. However he emphasised the need of the developed world to extend help to developing nations. |
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| G-20 FMs agree to maintain fiscal support | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The G-20 Finance Ministers have pledged to maintain the stimulus packages until the global economy is fully back on track and committed to work out an "ambitious outcome" at the UN climate change summit next month. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: The importance of being earnest | 08-NOV-09 |
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| Last week saw something that must have made the hearts of many Delhiites stop. It was Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh snubbing the Delhi government’s claims of being green. The minister, who was to unveil the Capital’s climate change agenda, chose to call a spade a spade. |
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| India, China doing a lot to tackle climate change: US | 05-NOV-09 |
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| India and China are taking "a lot of action" to tackle the climate change but it is a challenge to make them agree to a binding international agreement in this regard, a top Obama Administration official has said. |
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