Charles meets Pope, warns of a ‘new Dark Age’because of climate change

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - India has proposed annual bilateral dialogues with the United States and the European Union to exchange notes on the issue of climate change, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said. The proposed dialogue with the Europeans and the Americans could be on the lines of the first India-China energy dialogue scheduled to take place in New Delhi Oct 21, he said at a press conference here Friday at the end of his US visit.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - In a new study, the British Meteorological Department has warned that global warming could result in a rise of 4 degree Celsius by the year 2060. According to the Guardian, unchecked global warming could bring a severe temperature rise of 4C within many people's lifetimes, as warned by the new report for the British government that significantly raises the stakes over climate change.

September 17th, 2009 NEW YORK - The Prime Minister's Principal Secretary, T. K. A Nair met the UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon and discussed the country's stand on climate change on Thursday.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Democratic freedoms will be in danger around the world unless governments step up immediate efforts to tackle climate change, according to a think tank based here. In an open letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday, the second International Day of Democracy, the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development (FDSD) has warned of "formidable environmental and natural resource challenges just around the corner - and climate change is the biggest of them all".

August 24th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Participants at the World Water Week conference here have urged the governments to include the problem of water shortage in the negotiations on climate change. Access to drinking water has a significant impact on economy, health, agriculture and other spheres of life, they said.

July 11th, 2009 ON BOARD AIR INDIA ONE - India and China need to resist pressure from industrialised countries on the issue of climate change, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. The developed countries are by far the biggest polluters of the environment since the start of the Industrial Age.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Fourteen young people from countries attending the G8 today called on their respective leaders to get tough with countries who don't meet climate change targets and teachers whose standards slip. At the meeting, the J8 representatives presented these recommendations and others for the 14 leaders attending the G8.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - Charles, the Prince of Wales, has warned that humanity has just 96 months left to save the world. According to a report in The Independent, the heir to the British throne told an audience of industrialists and environmentalists at St James's Palace that capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, John Kerry, expressing concerns over the deteriorating environmental conditions in South Asia, has said that the changing climate of the region could adversely affect the relationship between India and Pakistan. Kerry, in his speech titled 'Climate change and American foreign policy: security challenges, diplomatic opportunities, said the problems of climatic change were acute in South Asia, which could have a serious impact on the relations of the two nuclear powers of the region.

May 29th, 2009 Climate-change diasters kill 300,000 a yearLONDON — Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan reported Friday.

May 29th, 2009 Climate change causes 300,000 deaths a yearLONDON — A think-tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says that around 300,000 people die each year from disasters related to climate change.

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher is to have a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in Rome next week. The former Prime Minister will fly to Italy today to stay with Carla Powell whose husband Charles was her foreign policy adviser at Downing Street.

April 22nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Prince Charles is set to pen a book on climate that will focus on the threat big business poses to the environment. Publisher HarperCollins said that the Prince's book would talk about how humans have become dangerously disconnected from nature through their unstoppable pursuit of economic growth and technological progress.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Vice President Al Gore has announced that the follow-up to his 2006 best-seller "An Inconvenient Truth" will release in November. The new book, Our Choice, is on climate change that proposes solutions to global warming and present climate crisis.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - A new research has predicted that global warming will have a devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest, shrinking it by 85 percent if there is a rise of 4 degree Celsius in the temperature. According to a report in the Guardian, the research, by some of Britain's leading experts on climate change, shows that even severe cuts in deforestation and carbon emissions will fail to save the emblematic South American jungle.