Climate change: Six energy companies write to United Nations for carbon pricing scheme

Six major energy companies have written to the United Nations asking for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme to help tackle climate change.BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Tot...

Unilever Plan On Track, But Cutting Emissions Tough

Four years into its Sustainable Living Plan, Unilever reports good progress on improving health and livelihoods in communities, improving resource efficiency, and sustainab...

Zee Melt 2015: Measurement Challenges And Techniques

In the session organised by BARC India, speakers from Médiamétrie, Mark Data, Nielsen Asia Pacific and William McKenna & Associates, discussed and debated...

Earth Wins Time As Land And Seas Absorb More Carbon

Climate change has intensified more slowly than scientists had expected because the continents and oceans are absorbing more atmospheric carbon dioxide. Half of all the car...

VICTIMS, WOMEN & THE LANDED VOICELESS

So here?? the thing!

As I entered home this evening, my housekeeper Leela Lhama opened the door, as usual.

She normally takes my laptop bag from my hand and...

Supporters Of A UN Climate Pact Say It’s An Economic Issue — Not Just a Moral One

It's the Holy Grail of climate change ? reducing fossil-fuel emissions without slashing the growth needed to lift billions of the world's people out of poverty. With the cl...

Govt Begins Giving Out Daily Air Quality Bulletin For 11 Cities

Exactly a month after launching the national Air Quality Index (AQI), which had its share of teething problems, the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesda...

Rich Mom, Poor Mom: Growing Gap In Global Access To Maternal Health Care

Less than six miles separate the crowded public hospital in an industrial district where Emilie Kabala gave birth from the gleaming private clinic in the tree-lined suburb ...

The Search For A ‘Legally Binding’ Climate Response

Legal experts claim that even without a new global deal in Paris, governments and companies have legal obligations to avert dangerous climate change. King's College London ...