The Kyoto Protocol is the "make or break" issue for UN climate talks in Cancun, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said, as he pointed not only Japan but many other countries are opposed to continuation of the treaty that legally binds industrialised nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It looks far from clear whether the climate change negotiations will succeed as developing countries like India want to be supported financially and through technology sharing with the rich industrialized world, says Harsh V Pant.
The action plan is supposed to focus on measures that state governments will take in reducing the carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, besides adopting a low carbon development path.
Europe, led by Switzerland, leads the way as the U.S. falls.
Software-to-soap maker Wipro Ltd plans to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint by half in the next five years. The Bangalore-based company with significant interests in IT, would reduce GHG intensity to 2.5 tonnes per employee by 2015, according to the company's second sustainability report released recently. The GHG footprint for the India operations of Wipro's IT business stands at 4.79 tonnes per employee.
President Trump originally announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations last year. The US exited the pact after a mandatory year-long waiting period that ended on Wednesday.
Oil content in mayonnaise slashed by 40 per cent, milk used in ice-creams 96 per cent fat-free, all wraps made of whole grain.
While we may not be able to stop it completely, every individual can make a difference by adopting simple measures at home or office.
Encouraged by India and China's decision to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, US President Barack Obama is hopeful that an agreement could be reached at the ongoing climate conference in Copenhagen.
United Nations climate negotiators on Sunday struck a compromise deal on a roadmap for an accord that will, for the first time, legally force all major carbon emitters to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ending days of wrangling between India and the European Union over the fate of the Kyoto protocol.
The Indian states figure in the list for East Asia countries. The names are there in annexure five of the 2010 FAO report to assess greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector. Arunachal Pradesh has been spelt as 'Arunashal' Pradesh in the list which also shows Aksai Chin as a separate country. China holds Aksai Chin as its integral part while India says it is part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir
US President George Bush has reiterated that the United States will not join any international regime on climate change unilaterally and sacrifice American industry and jobs, unless such a treaty binds the burgeoning economies of India and China to emission targets. But Chidambaram had slammed the US and other developed countries for creating the problem in the first place and now trying to coerce developing countries like India to carry more than their share of the burden.
Congressman James Sensenbrenner, the senior most Republican was among a high-powered delegation of US lawmakers, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that visited India last month. Sensenbrenner has made it clear that the US Congress will not ratify any global climate change agreement if India is not a party to it. This delegation focused on global warming and energy among other issues. He said without India & China, the US will be at an economic disadvantage in a global treaty.
Five top United Nations officials have urged world leaders to "seal the deal" at Copenhagen in December on an ambitious new climate change pact aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
So how do you trade in carbon? Who can trade and at what price? Joseph Massey, Deputy Managing Director, MCX, tells it all.
Nobel Laureate Wangari Mathai was on Monday awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan where a call was made to the developed world to join hands in adopting eco-friendly practices and tackle climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh refused to comment on his controversial remarks in China where he criticised the Indian government's approach towards Chinese companies, a day after he apologised to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the remarks.
Climate change, water, land won't be the only obstacle to India's growth prospects; water and land have an almost equal potential to derail things.
India's JSW Steel has been awarded more than 5.4 million carbon credits, including four million carbon credits in the single largest issuance of emissions permits to a Kyoto Protocol project, by the United Nations.
Even if the leaders can't negotiate a binding agreement, many countries hope to work out commitments to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions and provide assistance to poorer countries likely to be hardest hit by the effects of global warming.
Confusion prevailed over some reports from Beijing which quoted environment and forests minister, Jairam Ramesh, saying India will voluntarily reduce its carbon intensity by 20-25 per cent.
The warming of Earth and increases in sea level would continue for centuries even if greenhouse gas concentrations were to be stabilized, says the summary of a UN report leaked to the media.
Several large cities within the low elevation coastal zone like Mumbai and Chennai will go under the sea if the present growth rate of greenhouse emissions continues, with new infrastructures being made along the coastline of these cities coming under the danger zone. 'This isn't going to happen gradually. What we are going to see is a series of coastal surges, you will see inundation, salt water intrusion -- which will cause lots of harm and devastation.
Apparently, Australia's national animal has some special bacteria in its stomach that cuts methane content in flatulence to zero. Scientists believe that if the bacteria can be transferred to cows and sheep, 14 per cent of harmful emissions can be eliminated.
The study called for people in wealthy countries to more than halve their daily meat intake -- particularly red meat -- over the next 40 years to stop emission levels from rising further.
About 190 nations agreed on Sunday the building blocks of a new-style global deal due in 2015 to combat climate change amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit rising world temperatures.
In the last 10 years, India's net addition to its forest cover has broadly been 0.3 million hectares per year and the country's total forest and tree cover is 78.37 million hectares which is 23.84 per cent of geographical area.
Challenging the widely-held view that fossil fuel subsidies benefit the poor, the UN has asked for cutting back on such mechanisms to curb greenhouse gas emissions and propel economic growth.
With the transport sector responsible for a fourth of greenhouse gas emissions, the debate over the impact of cars such as the Tata one is going to get more strident.
The highest income group consisting of one per cent of population emits four-and-half times as much carbon dioxide as compared to the lowest income group with 38 per cent of the population in India, according to a report.
India has held that countries responsible for creating the problem of climate change should come out in a big way to solve this issue.
'Battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen ICE, could be the three technologies which have the potential of being zero emission and that are what we will have to work on,'
As a politician, Yadav is amiable and a consensus-maker, not hamstrung by dogma.
Never skip your meals during a climatic transition, warns Dr Siddhant Bhargava.
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off the first CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) based from Haryana's Rewari station.
Seeing the potential of shale gas, Reliance Industries moved early to secure a foothold in the Marcellus shale reserves in the US.
