A 35-member team represents India at the world's biggest climate change conference at Copenhagen.
As a politician, Yadav is amiable and a consensus-maker, not hamstrung by dogma.
Delhi Metro is turning more eco-friendly with installation of solar panels for electricity at its headquarters which will prevent 2.35 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
Developing countries like India and China are unlikely to accept binding greenhouse gas reduction targets at the Washington summit on climate change, Australian Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said.
A carbon tax may be a better approach in lowering greenhouse gas emissions than the caps and tradable permits legislation being considered by many American lawmakers, according to a new study.
The G-8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the beachside in Heiligendamm, which is sealed off from anti-globalisation protestors by a 13-kilometre-long fence.
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China is the top greenhouse gas emitter, ahead of the United States, the European Union and India.
Consuming more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood can actually harm the environment, according to a study.
Never skip your meals during a climatic transition, warns Dr Siddhant Bhargava.
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.
At a virtual press conference to launch the report, Inger Anderson, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme, said, "Climate change is here and now. No one is safe. Despite warnings from so many years, the world did not listen. We need to act now. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will not only limit climate change but also reduce air pollution."
Amid protest over the proposed ambitious semi-highspeed SilverLine rail project, also known as K-Rail, the Kerala government on Saturday published the detailed project report that estimated the cost of project to be Rs 63,941 crore.
A fracture of interstate relations could be India's biggest risk coming out of the pandemic. This topped a list of critical risks for India over the next two years, according to Geneva-based World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey (EOS), whose results were released on Tuesday. Other top risks include a debt crisis in large economies, widespread youth disillusionment, failure of technology governance and digital inequality.
EU operates as one block at the climate change negotiations and takes a single greenhouse gas emission reduction target under the Paris Agreement
Cities around the world account for 71 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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US Trade Representative's office in early February asked India for WTO consultations on its national solar program, the Jawaharal Nehru National Solar Mission.
The overwhelming feeling at the end of COP 27 was that despite decades of meetings and landmark accords, like the Paris Agreement, the world was still not doing enough to slow the climate crisis, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
They are arguing that it is a major source of greenhouse gas emission.
Road map agreed for future treaty to legally bind polluters to cut emissions.
At the Doha climate change conference, the world agreed to strengthen the framework for future action.
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.
Ishan Nath, the Rhodes Scholar elect from Atlanta, exemplifies how one can turn frustration into a passion.
India and Africa on Wednesday asked the developed counties to take "ambitious actions" to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and also provide finance and technology to the developing counties so that they could effectively address the impact of climate change.
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Many European cities have less than half the emissions per person of many cities in North America.
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.
A report authored by UN's panel of scientists from across the world on climate change and sent to the governments of 197 countries has ominous news on the climate change front.
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.
Chinese Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian said on Tuesday a new survey will undertaken to conduct a final check on local governments' emission-reduction efforts as the country was on course to meet the pollution control targets for the 11th plan period.
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.
'A lack of agreement at Copenhagen may not be suicidal for the US,' he said, 'but for a country like India, it is absolutely critical to have an agreement at Copenhagen,' says Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
India and China on Wednesday formally backed the Climate Change Accord hammered out in Copenhagen last year calling for voluntary cut in greenhouse gas emissions.
We dumped Kyoto because of the US - but even the diluted US-inspired Copenhagen accord is in peril.
Terming the outcome of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen as an abject failure, scientists and environmental groups have blamed the US and China for blocking a legally binding treaty on reducing global warming.
After tough negotiations, the first official draft at the climate meet in Copenhagen has been firmed up which says that developing nations shall take appropriate mitigation actions with the support of finance and technology from the developed world, a key demand advocated by India.
Proposals are being worked upon at the Copenhagen summit to cut the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, prominent among which is the use of nuclear energy.
Pushing for a legally binding substantive outcome at the Copenhagen climate change meet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said India is willing to sign on to an ambitious global target for emission reduction or limiting temperature increase, if it is accompanied by an equitable burden-sharing paradigm. He denounced attempts by some developed nations to junk the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
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