Efforts to achieve a global agreement to address climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December are at a deadlock, Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India on Climate Change, told participants at the India Economic Summit on Tuesday.“There is now a very deliberate attempt to downgrade international expectations and that is unfortunate,” Saran...
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top United Nations climate negotiator Thursday said a global climate summit in Copenhagen next month could produce an agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, but if the U.S. Congress doesn't pass climate legislation, a binding international climate deal would be delayed until late 2010.The comments by Janos Pasztor, director of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's climate-change support team,...
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Giving a new angle to the climate change the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) today said family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts.The influence of human activity on climate change is complex. It is about what people consume, the types of...
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About a quarter million children could die of climate change and nearly 175 million children will be hit by disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts along with malnutrition and disease, a report released by an NGO said Wednesday.Launching a new report, "Feeling the Heat - Child Survival in a Changing Climate", at the UN Climate Change talks in Barcelona Wednesday, Save the Children predicted that...
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Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today said there was a need for indigenous scientific technology for observation of climate in the country.Addressing a press conference at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL) at Gadanki, near here, he said as most of the data relating to observation of climate were coming from Western countries, ''we need to develop state-of-the-art...
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About a quarter million children could die of climate change and nearly 175 million children will be hit by disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts along with malnutrition and disease, a report released by an NGO said Wednesday.Launching a new report, "Feeling the Heat - Child Survival in a Changing Climate", at the UN Climate Change talks in Barcelona Wednesday, Save the Children predicted that...
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Friday warned that unchecked global warming could lead to conflicts over resources and called for transfer of capital and technology from developed to developing countries for an equitable solution to climate change.Climate change will lead to scarcity of resources that in turn will lead to conflicts over resources in the future, Nasheed said in a lecture at the Observer Research Foundation, a public...
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morning, the auditorium at St Xavier’s College was transformed into a unique courtroom.Presenting their testimonies were the commonest of the city’s commoners — fishermen, farmers, slumdwellers, street dwellers and daily-wage workers. And at the jurors’ desk were a modest panel of social activists and climate change specialists who listened to their woes.The event was a public hearing on the ‘Impact...
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DHAKA: Bangladesh said Tuesday it would need 10 billion dollars from rich countries in the next four years to offset the effects of climate change -- double its original estimate. The government had previously said it would seek five billion dollars at next month's climate summit in Copenhagen to help it adapt to increased flooding, cyclones and droughts. But environment minister Hasan Mahmud said...
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latest report published by the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change says the ice cover on the Arctic Sea has decreased by about 39 per cent since 1979. Global warming, which is evident form of climate change, is melting the ice caps.THE ISSUE of climate change is one of the worst threats that puts serious question of the future of mankind. And as most world leaders continue to do lip service...
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