India, US to hold talks on climate change

October 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Argentina on Wednesday recognized that climate change is a global challenge with strong economic, environmental and social dimensions. The leaders of the two countries said climate change impacts all countries, but is particularly severe for developing countries, given their vulnerabilities, inadequate means and limited capacities to adapt to its effects.

September 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Oxfam Australia, an international aid group, has said that the Australian government's proposal to allow developing nations to set weaker emissions targets failed to address financing shortages in poorer countries. Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong outlined a plan, during a meeting of world environment ministers in Washington, that would let the developing world set their own binding schedule to cut carbon pollution.

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister of Denmark, Lars Loekke Rasmussen, will arrive here on Friday on a daylong working visit to India to speed up negotiations on a climate deal ahead of a key summit to be held in Copenhagen between December 7 and 18. Rasmussen will meet with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh and the UN's top climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who is chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen who is on a three day visit to India from Thursday, will make an effort to speed up negotiations on climate deal ahead of a key summit in Copenhagen in December. Rasmussen's will have discussion with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri.

September 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With less than three months to go for the Copenhagen conference on climate change, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen comes here on a day-long visit Friday to enlist India's support for a new global deal to slash carbon emissions. Rasmussen, one of Denmark's youngest prime ministers, will hold talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on a wide range of issues, including global financial crisis and issues relating to global warming and green technologies.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - "India considers China its most important ally in Copenhagen negotiations," Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Friday. Negotiations for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Copenhagen this December have often been fractious, with developed and major developing countries like India and China often taking opposing stands on who should do more to combat global warming.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Earth Sciences Prithviraj Chavan Monday said India's per capita energy consumption was "the lowest" in the world and the nation "can defend its interests". Chavan, addressing a gathering on Earth Sciences Foundation Day at Vigyan Bhavan in the capital, said climate change has now come into international diplomatic domain and India needed to carry out reserach and study to put its stance at the international level.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said India and United States have decided to work in close tandem in the field of climate change. Abdullah, who met Todd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change here to bridge differences between the two countries on reducing greenhouse gases, favoured transfer of technology to reduce emissions.

July 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday began the Delhi leg of her five-day India visit with a conference on climate change and green technologies - a subject close to her heart and an emerging theme in burgeoning India-US ties. Dressed in a turquoise blue business suit, a beaming Clinton landed at the ITC Green Building in Gurgaon, a township adjoining Delhi, soon after arrriving in the capital on a two-day visit that will focus on expanding the scope of strategic dialogue between the two countries.

July 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Among all other adverse effects that climate change can and has been bringing about is lessening work productivity, according to an Oxfam report which says the productivity in Delhi can drop by 30 percent because of the global warming. The report, 'Suffering the Science - Climate Change, People and Poverty', said besides the more visible effects of climate change - the scanty rainfall these monsoons for instance - there are a whole lot of other implications that have been and will affect our lives.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is now spending over 2.6 percent of its gross domestic product to adapt to climate change, says the country's annual Economic Survey, tabled in parliament Thursday by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The effect of climate change on "agriculture, water resources, health and sanitation, forests, coastal-zone infrastructure and extreme events" are "specific areas of concern", says the survey.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There should be high level talks between Brazil, Russia, India and China on a global pact to combat climate change before the first BRIC summit in Russia next month, India's top climate negotiator Shyam Saran said here Thursday. The talks should be at the level of either politicians or senior officials, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change Saran told delegates from all BRIC countries at a summit preparatory meeting organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India and Britain have announced five new projects to assess the potential impact of climate change in India and to undertake regional projects to identify and develop adaptation strategies. This was announced at the first Indo-UK Programme on Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation-Phase II workshop here Monday.

February 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Friday stressed that the global economic crisis should not become a cause for developed countries to cut down spending on projects to counter climate change. 'The economic slowdown should not be an excuse to reduce, but to re-double efforts on funding for climate change,' prime minister's envoy on climate change Shyam Saran told reporters here at an interaction.

January 28th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - A group of young people are travelling across the country in three solar plug-in electric Reva vehicles, inspired by a passion to highlight India's local eco-solutions to the challenges posed by climate change. The group of 19 arrived here Wednesday as part of the Climate Solutions Road Tour organised by the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN).