| Letters: Global warming | 18-NOV-09 |
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| The bigger battle on global warming appears to be within the country itself (‘Cooperate on climate change, PM tells Saran, Ramesh’, November 17) since the two people in charge of India’s negotiating strategy at Copenhagen are not united on what their line has to be. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has done well to ask them to come up with a common position. While Ramesh feels that India needs to move forward from the Kyoto position, Saran’s view is that Kyoto is what best suits India’s interests. |
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| Black carbon can't be linked to global warming: Pachauri | 16-NOV-09 |
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| Black carbon in the atmosphere is an issue of concern but it can't be linked to melting of glaciers or global warming, leading climate expert R K Pachauri today said, dismissing fears that soot produced from biomass or fuel burning is as harmful as greenhouse gases. |
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| UN chief to link food, global warming at FAO summit | 12-NOV-09 |
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| UN chief Ban Ki-moon will prod world leaders to step up the fight against global warming and hunger when he attends the UN Food and Agriculture Organization summit in Rome next week, a spokesperson said. |
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| G-20 launches framework to promote global economy | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The finance ministers of G-20 nations have agreed on a timetable for the new framework for balanced and sustainable growth of the global economy, but made a little progress on financing efforts to reduce global warming. |
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| Surinder Sud: Good carbon dioxide! | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Carbon dioxide (CO2) is infamous as a pollutant. It is one of the key greenhouse gases (GHGs), along with methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases, which cause global warming and consequential climate change that has ominous implications for agriculture. But, what is generally not duly appreciated is that the CO2 also acts as a yield booster. |
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| World's first underwater cabinet meet to be held today | 17-OCT-09 |
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| The world’s first underwater cabinet meeting gets underway on Saturday, when Maldives’ ministers would meet at the bottom of the sea to highlight the dangers posed by global warming to their picturesque archipelago. |
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| CSA develops heat resistant wheat varieties | 12-OCT-09 |
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| The Kanpur-based Chandra Shekhar Azad (CSA) agriculture university has developed two new heat resistant varieties of wheat to tackle the challenges posed by global warming. |
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| Global leaders vow to tackle climate change | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Ahead of the key Copenhagen meet in December to tackle global warming, leading Indian environmentalist R K Pachauri and 29 other global leaders have inked a declaration vowing to jointly work to pursue clean transportation and back national climate change legislations. |
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| T N Ninan: Warming to hope | 26-SEP-09 |
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The world is all heated up about global warming, but did you know that there has been no warming of the globe over the past decade? And that, according to one recent forecast, there will be no warming over the next decade either? Also, did you know that there was no change in India’s mean temperature for three decades up to the mid-1970s? In other words, in roughly 50 out of 75 years, there was/will be no global warming! No, I am not joining the small minority which still argues that |
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| Climate change threat for developing nations | 18-SEP-09 |
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| Developing countries face 75-80 per cent of the potential damage from climate change and will need assistance in adapting to the changing climate. Moreover, the current financial crisis cannot be an excuse to put climate on the back burner, states the World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change. |
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| UN climate chief: Big greenhouse gas cuts needed | 11-SEP-09 |
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| Rich countries must commit to deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if they want India and China to sign onto an accord to curb global warming, a top UN climate official said today. |
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