India must not sign the Copenhagen Accord on fighting climate change because it is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘inefficient’, says a leading green NGO, but the environment minister says the country should not be ‘evangelical’.
‘The Copenhagen Accord is weak, meaningless and fundamentally flawed,’ Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Director Sunita Narain said here Friday. ‘It will [...]
New Delhi, Jan 3 (ANI): Nobel laureate Rajendra Kumar Pachauri on Sunday expressed hopes that countries would reach a time bound agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases at climate change summit in Mexico City.
Addressing a seminar hosted by the IIT Roorkee Alumni Association here, Pachauri said nobody was happy with the outcome of [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 3 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said on Sunday that he was not satisfied with the outcome of the Copenhagen Summit.
Inaugurating the 97th Indian Science Congress at Thiruvananthapuram here, Dr. Singh said, “We were able to make only limited progress at the Copenhagen Summit and no one was satisfied with the outcome. [...]
Thiruvanathapuram, Jan 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday expressed disappointment over the climate change accord finalised at the Copenhagen Summit last year.
‘We were able to make only limited progress at Copenhagen. No one was fully satisfied,’ Singh said while addressing the 97th Indian Science Congress here.
Addressing scientists, the prime minister added: ‘There is [...]
Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): More than 80 percent of Americans surveyed in a new poll support action to limit carbon pollution and move the U.S. toward a clean energy future.
Results of the survey released by the National Wildlife [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expressing discontent over India’s stand on the Copenhagen Climate Accord, on Tuesday said the documents clearly betrayed the developing nations, and the interests of the country had not been protected.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, “The accord says one thing, the government understands another.”
The developing [...]
Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) A top White House adviser has described the limited, non-binding Copenhagen accord as ‘a great step forward’ saying the US could challenge India and China if they don’t meet their stated goals.
As part of the agreement between the US and four other countries, China and India have set goals for combating [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 19 (DPA) The leaders of the world’s biggest economies reached what even its authors described as an insufficient deal aimed at slowing global warming after 11th-hour discussions in Copenhagen early Saturday.
The agreement, brokered by the US and China, backs scientists’ call to limit global warming to within 2 degrees centigrade against pre-industrial levels.
But [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 19 (IANS) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told US President Barack Obama that the key to climate change issue is to stick to the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’.
Climate change is a global challenge and an important field for cooperation between China and the US, Xinhua quoted Wen as saying during his meeting [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) After failing to come up with any treaty to fight global warming or any significant improvement in the existing treaties, the Copenhagen climate summit was finding it difficult on its final day to even come up with an accord that would show the willingness of world leaders on the issue.
At least [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (DPA) World leaders were Friday discussing a new compromise climate change text that would commit them to a joint target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 in a bid to keep global warming within 2 degrees centigrade.
The draft, seen by DPA, reiterates previous calls for rich [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) The leaders of India and China reiterated Friday that outstanding issues between them would be solved through dialogue and meanwhile ‘peace and tranquility’ would be maintained along their disputed border.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, meeting over breakfast on the sidelines of the Copenhagen climate summit, reiterated that [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (DPA) US President Barack Obama sought to win over China as world leaders struggled Friday to salvage a global deal aimed at preventing devastating changes to the planet’s climate.
Addressing some 120 heads of state and government convened for a final day of talks in Copenhagen, Obama said efforts to keep greenhouse-gas emissions [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) India and China will join hands to oppose attempts by rich countries to hinder their development in the name of fighting climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao decided at a breakfast meeting here Friday.
The two premiers, attending the finale of the Dec 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (DPA) US President Barack Obama arrived in Copenhagen Friday, raising hopes of a deal on the final day of key United Nations talks aimed at preventing climate change.
Obama landed at Kastrup Airport at 9 a.m. and headed straight for the nearby Bella Center venue, where he was to hold bilateral talks with [...]
openhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) Representatives of 192 countries quibbled over every word through the night as a weak political declaration started to emerge out of the climate summit once scheduled to finalise a treaty that would tackle global warming. As security helicopters circled atop snow flurries, 130-odd heads of state gathered here Friday were told [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) With last-minute negotiations on at Copenhagen to rescue the UN climate summit, Australia Friday rebutted media reports that it had ‘cooked the books’ by allegedly ignoring emissions from agriculture and forestry sectors.
Refuting reports in a section of the Indian media that Australia’s carbon emission report was wrong or misleading, Australian [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Copenhagen, where he arrived Thursday in order to take part in the UN climate change conference.
The Russian president told Saad Hariri he hoped they could discuss ‘not only climate-related issues, but also issues of… bilateral relations’ during their stay [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (DPA) China Thursday raised the prospects of a climate deal being achieved in Copenhagen by offering to be transparent about its greenhouse gas emission targets.
‘We promise to make our actions transparent,’ Hu Yafei, a senior Chinese foreign ministry official, told journalists.
His comments, voiced just hours before US President Barack Obama was due [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (DPA) World pledges on cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 are nowhere near enough to keep global warming in check, a leaked UN report said Thursday.
But a top climate economist questioned the report, saying that what was important was the world’s longterm emissions path, rather than a make-or-break figure in 2020.
The leaked [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) As the clock ticked down on the Copenhagen climate summit and negotiators settled down for hard bargaining through the night, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon rued that negotiations ‘have been very slow’, but added: ‘I have not seen anything to indicate we can’t seal a deal’.
In a briefing for select media from [...]
Copenhagen, Dec.17 (ANI): Ahead of the arrival of world leaders in Copenhagen, there were indications that to break the ice at the climate summit, negotiators might reckon existing United Nations texts, presented at the meeting on Wednesday which outlined [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 17 (IANS) The US and China were at loggerheads on the penultimate day of the Copenhagen climate summit, after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that China take more ‘transparent’ actions to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
China’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs He Yafei quoted Premier Wen Jiabao to say only those [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 17 (IANS) There will be no accord at the climate summit unless emerging economies take ‘decisive actions’ to combat global warming that can be ‘operationalised in an international code’ in a transparent manner, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday.
Clinton named China but appeared to include India, South Africa and Brazil [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The Indian government Thursday signed a $303 million agreement with the World Bank for a loan to refurbish four coal-based power plants with a total capacity of 640 MW.
The project will improve the energy efficiency of select coal-fired power generation units through renovation and modernization and improved operations and maintenance, [...]
Washington, Dec 17 (DPA) US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will arrive in Copenhagen on Thursday to attend the final days of a UN summit on climate change in a last push to get an international agreement on reducing greenhouse gases, the State Department confirmed Wednesday.
Clinton will join the discussion a day ahead of [...]
Copenhagen, Dec.17 (ANI): Ahead of the arrival of world leaders in Copenhagen, there were indications that to break the ice at the climate summit, negotiators might reckon existing United Nations texts, presented at the meeting on Wednesday which outlined [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 16 (DPA) The chair of the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen sought to overcome deadlock Wednesday as thousands of protesters planned to storm the conference’s venue.
A restricted group of 25 countries, among them Britain, Germany and four other European nations, were to discuss ways of helping the conference’s presidency break the impasse, [...]
Washington, December 16 (ANI): A recent article in National Geographic News has made a list of the top ten environmental losses of the year 2009.
At number one is the finding that the environmental challenge of global warming has worsened.
2009 saw vast patches of the planet protected and world leaders pledge to fight global warming, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) Against the backdrop of deepening rifts between developed and developing countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to Copenhagen Thursday to renew India’s pitch for ‘a balanced, equitable and ambitious outcome’ at the UN climate summit.
Manmohan Singh will be among a handful of visiting leaders who will Friday speak at the [...]
