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US President George W. Bush pledged Sunday to play a “constructive” role on climate change at a summit of rich nations, but hopes for a breakthrough were dim as he pressed developing countries.Japan, the host of the three-day Group of Eight summit, pushed for progress in the fight against global warming but environmentalists said that […]

The head of the UN’s Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), delivered the bleak warning at a gathering of European Union ministers where he pleaded with the […]

Environment ministers from South Asian countries adopted a three-year action plan on Thursday for regional cooperation to combat climate change effects.The meeting agreed to share information and best practices on nationally appropriate actions to mitigate carbon emissions, technology transfer, increasing climate change awareness and other areas.
The meeting was also attended by environment experts from the […]

China will deepen international cooperation on climate change, environmental protection, disaster relief and other global issues, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said here Thursday. Li made the remarks in a meeting with the foreign delegates to the 21st congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).
Li said space technology played […]

Floods like those that inundated the U.S. Midwest are supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993, suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming into account, conservation experts said on Tuesday.”Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it’s critical to understand that a […]

A joint initiative by foreign governments and international agencies was launched here on Monday to assist China’s ecologically fragile provinces to map out plans to cope with the climate change. The “Provincial Programs for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in China” are a joint initiative of the Chinese and foreign governments and […]

Climate experts have warned that the world might have already reached the tipping point of climate change, where immediate actions needed to be done to avert the effects of global warming.According to a report in Discovery News, the scientist who first put forward this theory is NASA climate scientist James Hansen.
Though Hansen had earlier warned […]

The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) today announced an “incentive” of Rs 0.50 per unit of wind-power fed by the independent power producers into the grid.The generation based incentive (GBI) is aimed at increasing the quantum of grid interactive renewable power.
“The investors, apart from getting the tariff (as determined by the state regulatory […]

Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn investment in renewable energy that could create hundreds of thousands of new “green collar” jobs, Gordon Brown announced today.The prime minister unveiled what he described as a “green revolution” and “the most dramatic change in energy policy since the […]

California on Thursday took a major step forward on its global warming fight by unveiling an ambitious plan for clean cars, renewable energy and stringent caps on big polluting industries.The plan, which aims to reduce pollutants by 10 percent from current levels by 2020 while driving investment in new energy technologies that will benefit the […]