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Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli 11:05 PM | November 16,2009
The environment ministry has conceded its shortfalls. But it must also address more fundamental questions
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Ajayan 12:18 AM | November 10,2009
The peoples’ crusade against the Silent Valley 120MW hydroelectric project led to the promulgation of Forest Conservation Act in 1980 restricting the use of forest land for any non-forest reason
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Padmaparna Ghosh 10:37 PM | November 09,2009
The IPCC, in its fourth assessment report in 2007, said that Himalayan glaciers are retreating faster than in any other part of the world, and if this continues, they are likely to disappear by 2035, or perhaps sooner
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Samar Halarnkar 11:42 PM | November 06,2009
Policymakers are working on energy norms and a range of incentives for 714 of India’s most energy-intensive installations across nine sectors
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Anmol Vanamali 11:19 PM | October 29,2009
The question that we need to face head-on, and presumably the one that minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh is grappling with, is the degree of international involvement in India’s voluntary mitigation actions
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Jacob P. Koshy 10:51 PM | October 23,2009
In the last one year, at least three of the country’s leading research institutes have either launched or are in the process of setting up dedicated centres that will be part of the Indian Network of Climate Change Assessment
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PTI 07:27 PM | October 23,2009
The quickest way of lowering the cost of many renewable options is to scale up their rate of deployment and diffusion in developing countries, minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said
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Samanth Subramanian 11:36 AM | October 23,2009
Dr. Biswajit Dhar talks about India’s specific stance with regard to climate change and what it will involve once negotiations get under way
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Padmaparna Ghosh 12:25 AM | October 21,2009
The environment minister has been pushing to reposition India’s stand, thus far largely perceived as a “deal breaker”
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Our View 09:02 PM | October 20,2009
Jairam Ramesh is at pains to explain that India’s basic negotiating stand had not been changed. But his plea for “flexibility” creates more doubts
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PTI 03:41 PM | October 20,2009
Developed nations are stepping up pressure on emerging economies like India, China and Brazil to take up legally binding greenhouse gas emission cuts, a move stoutly opposed by them
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PTI 12:22 PM | October 20,2009
Experts from both countries will deliberate and share ideas on their plans, policy and action on mitigation, forests, adaptation and progress in climate change science
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Padmaparna Ghosh 12:27 AM | October 20,2009
Even with the Copenhagen meet on climate change less than 50 days away, the rift over policy within the government is widening
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Padmaparna Ghosh 12:49 AM | October 19,2009
The sense that time may be running out has given a keener edge to the debates and discussions that are going on across the world as the scene of action shifts to the Indian capital this week
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K. Raghu 11:14 PM | October 18,2009
The National Institute of Climate and Environment, or NICE, with a 100-member team of scientists, will begin work by March
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