An unsteady first step

Trading in energy-efficiency certificates faces major hurdles

Full extent of carbon emissions from fossil-fuelled power plants underestimated

Current accounting methods do not consider life-long emissions

Green tidings from Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Scotland aims to recycle 80 per cent waste produced during the event

South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015

Tax to increase at 10 per cent per year; draft policy sets relief limits

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Global Eco Watch: Carnivorous frog enters South Australia, could wreak havoc

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Carbon credit policy for telecom sector

Government asks service providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

First wind power plant

Minamata Convention: India skips historic meet

Officials mum on why no official representative went from India

Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol

Loses moral position to call on developing countries to limit emissions

Is Naik serious about Auto Fuels Policy?

The climate-forest continuum

Exhaustive predicament

Nitrogen dioxide is proving a dificult vehicular emission to control

New indices to track global carbon market

EU tells US airliners to pay for emissions

El Nino to cause global losses worth $84 trillion by 2099, India may be more vulnerable than estimated

Impacts of El Nino will be more pronounced in poor countries in the tropics like India

Latin American countries agree to stop deforestation at Lima summit

Pledge to replant nearly 20 million hectares of forest by 2020

Hong Kong shows improvement in air quality

Catalytic converters in vehicles bring down emission levels

Negotiating the future

The upcoming climate negotiations at The Hague may turn out to be the most crucial till now

Russia submits climate plan; commits to reducing emissions by 25-30% by 2030

Thirty-two developed nations have submitted their INDCs so far

From India Environment Portal

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India, China slam EU’s carbon emissions tax on airlines

Say it would jeopardise international efforts to combat climate change

Australia set for highest temperature rise by century end

Government in denial mode despite repeated warnings

Government must respond to the public health crisis: CSE

Demands stringent measures to cut toxic risk from burgeoning vehicle numbers

Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health