India ready to cut coal usage for climate finance
Amid growing green pressure from developed countries, India has expressed willingness to cut down on the usage of coal in return for climate finance. India is expected to become the …
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Chennai floods: Climate change damage?
Heavy torrential rains in the past few days in southern India’s largest metropolitan city Chennai have brought the vibrant city to a standstill. The rains are said to be the heaviest in the last century. The Indian Army has been deployed for round-the-clock rescue and relief operations. As the Indian Meteorological Department forecast more rains over the next three days, leading Indian environment experts attending the Paris climate change summit have speculated that the crisis is the ‘full-blown impact’ of global warming.
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Obama sings for Modi’s vision of India, may invite him to US in 2016
WASHINGTON: Under siege from his critics for perceived rise in intolerance in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi can always bank on his friend ‘Barack’. In lush praise which is …
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A Tale of Two Players in Africa: Indian & Chinese responses
A subtle but sure competition is emerging between New Delhi and Beijing in courting Africa with each of these two rising countries in Asia offering wider choices for the African nations. “Beijing Consensus” of multilateralism, “non-intervention”, “no regime change”, “win-win” was counter posed in the last decade against the dominant Washington Consensus.
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COP21: BASIC countries push for roadmap on climate finance
The members of the leading emerging countries bloc BASIC, including India, have stressed on the need for the developed world to define a clear roadmap for providing USD 100 billion …
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China ups pressure, says differentiation critical to COP21’s success
PARIS: Amid the ongoing tussle between developed and developing countries at the global climate success, China, the world’s second largest emitter, has upped the pressure, and underscored the core principle …
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Climate changing? Modi-Sharif meeting in Paris sparks guessing game
Has the climate changed in the perennially prickly India-Pakistan relations? Or was it the Paris magic and collective pressure to cut out on emissions (read bad vibes)?. Whatever it was, the 160-second meeting between the leaders of India and Pakistan in Paris has made banner headlines, overshadowing more substantive discussions on the opening day of the global climate summit that is expected to birth a new green future for the planet and its inhabitants.
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COP 21: Modi puts the onus on developed world, focuses on equity
Underlining that climate change is a major global challenge, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the India Pavilion in Paris and stressed that the world must act with urgency to craft a comprehensive, equitable and durable agreement to limit global warming.
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COP21: Breakthrough Energy Coalition, Solar Alliance set to reshape climate actions
In a path-breaking move, world’s top industrialists and entreprenurs have decided to launch an energy coalition that would impart the much-needed momentum to clean energy through innovations. The move coincides with India’s decision to launch an International Solar Alliance of over 100 countries.
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India pitches for ambitious climate finance by developed countries
Ahead of the crucial COP21 summit in Paris on November 30, India has pressed developed countries to raise the level of climate finance and technology transfer to enable developing countries …
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