Climate


  • Chennai Declaration for biodiversity care
    February 18 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    Feb. 17: Chennai has set the agenda for protecting the world’s delicate and fragile environment that is being increasingly threatened by a dangerous mix of factors mostly man-made

  • Fire on ice
    January 31 2010 | By Rashme Sehgal

    Dr R.K. Pachauri has never been afraid to face a knock-out punch. “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen,” is his dictum. He certainly is facing many more hard-hitting punches than he had anticipated when he was first elected chairman of the IPCC in 2002.

  • ‘Date wrong, science credible’
    January 31 2010 | By Sunita Narain

    Sunita Narain director Centre of Science and Environment says that her past battles with IPCC chief R. K

  • A controversy that won’t melt
    January 31 2010 | By Our Correspondent

    Glaciers are known to be nature’s barometers. They help decipher changes in the climate which the earth has undergone in the past

  • Change of climate in India, Jairam ‘guilty’
    December 23 2009 | By Our Correspondent

    The environment and forests minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, admitted in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that the Copenhagen accord would allow for “international consultation and analysis” on its domestic mitigation programme, a clear departure from the government’s earlier stand.

  • US can push India on climate
    December 22 2009 | By Our Correspondent

    Even though the Copenhagen accord is not legally binding, the United States would not only “review” its implementation by India and China, but also would “challenge” them if they do not meet the goals set by the agreement, the White House said.