India needs to catch up on carbon efficiency

There is need for India to catch up on carbon efficiency developments, according to a climate change performance report. "National experts in India downgraded their country...

Lima climate change talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats

Hopes rise for global warming deal after US-China carbon commitments inject much-needed momentum into Peru talks UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the ...

Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists

But ?geoengineers? say urgent nature of climate change means research must continue into controversial technology to combat rising temperatures Fighting global warming by r...

Six vital steps world leaders must agree to take to protect Earth

International talks in Paris in 2015 could see the world?s nations agree to limit global warming to a rise of 2C. Actually achieving that target will require huge commitmen...

China?s Climate Change Plan Raises Questions

Many scientists have said that 2030 may be too long to wait for China?s greenhouse gas emissions to stop growing, if the world is to keep the average global temperature fro...

PM?s climate change council recast

The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister?s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigat...

Climate change is a problem. But our attempts to fix it could be worse than useless

Panicked, ill-thought-through responses to the threat of climate change could hurt more people than they save

The UN Climate Panel came out with it...

Why scientists are (almost) certain that climate change is man-made

ON NOVEMBER 2ND the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which represents mainstream scientific opinion, said that it was extremely likely that climate change ...

India Challenges Developed Countries on Sustainable Development, Consumption

India has challenged developed countries to take the lead in ensuring sustainable patterns of consumption as developing countries grapple with the problem of eradicating po...