US senators introduce bipartisan bill to tackle ‘super pollutants’

A Democrat and a Republican senator have together proposed legislation to cut short-lived pollutants like black carbon, methane and HFCs

Action begins

India gets ready with national plan on climate change

Climate change new opportunity to renew old orders

The two-degree shift

UK climate bill criticized

India's new solar system

Countdown to copenhagen

India’s carbon roadmap

Cooking stoves in carbon trade

Improved stoves will be standardized for fuel and emission efficiency

Gordon Brown wants to increase nuclear capacity

Financing emissions from jets and cows

Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank's …

US presidential candidates' take on climate change

All about climate

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Climate negotiations on adaptation headed along divergent paths

Countries make little headway due to fundamental differences between developed and developing nations

'Developing countries are treated in a very unfair manner'

Bernarditas Muller, a seasoned member of the Philippines negotiating team, is among the rare few who call a spade a spade. Speaking to Indrajit …

Lying low

Biofuels more dangerous than fossil fuels

Anders Levermann on geopolitics of climate change

Professor at Germanys Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Anders Levermanns interests range from monsoon in India to glacier …

Bonn to bust

Kyoto Protocol’s future uncertain after the stalemate in Germany

Biocharcoal helps check global warming

Zero-carbon nation

Indian Railways to chart a new route to reduce GHG emissions

Focus on low-carbon inter-urban passenger and freight transport, and tools like NAMAs for technology transfer and financing

Seaside villages deserted

Experience of super cyclone1999 prompts people to move to safer places; evacuation continues

Renewable energy demand-supply mismatch

At the first trading session supply was about 500 RECs while demand was at 1,00,000 RECs