India, US to maintain dialogue on 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.

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - With the US showing a better appreciation of India's position on climate change, New Delhi hopes to have in place an energy partnership when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh comes here on a state visit in November. The ultimate objective is to "have some articulation and finalisation of institutional partnership in the field of energy, environment and climate change", Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said Friday winding up his visit to the US.

September 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian ministers Farooq Abdullah and Jairam Ramesh will take part in the US-India Energy Partnership Summit to be held here Oct 1 aimed at contributing to the ongoing high-level India-US dialogue areas such as renewable energy, climate change and technological innovation. The summit will support the dialogue on how to promote enabling policies for the rapid development and deployment of green technologies in both the US and India and the opportunities for partnership.

July 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Given the US standpoint that a global solution to climate change would require significant participation by developing countries like India and China, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will discuss the issue in detail in New Delhi. "One of the areas that I know will be discussed in detail is the area of climate change," Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip J.

July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Acknowledging India's emergence as a global player, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says how New Delhi can "play not just a regional role but a global one as well" would top her agenda on her India trip. "We believe India has a tremendous opportunity and a growing responsibility, which they acknowledge, to play not just a regional role but a global one as well," she said Wednesday in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.

July 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said her trip to India later this week is intended to start a strategic dialogue on a wide range of issues including climate change and clean energy. "I am going to India Thursday night for a couple of days of consultation.

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.

April 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama wants India and the United States to build a renewable energy partnership as they work together to find solutions to climate change issues. Obama conveyed this to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy on climate change issues, Shyam Saran, during a meeting Monday with leaders of delegations to a meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate here.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Prime Minister's special envoy on climate change issues, Shyam Saran, will lead the Indian delegation to a preparatory meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate here April 27-28. The preparatory sessions will support a Major Economies Forum leaders' meeting hosted by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in LaMaddalena, Italy, in July 2009.

April 9th, 2009 BONN - India has told the UN that there is no such thing as an 'advanced developing country' - a category that was sought to be introduced by Japan at a just-ended inconclusive global meet on climate change. The 10-day meet was the first in a series organised by the UN leading up to a December summit where countries will seek to hammer out an agreement on how to tackle climate change.

April 6th, 2009 BONN - India and China have told the United Nations a climate change agreement that slows down their economic growth and locks them into poverty is unacceptable to them. The UN's climate change boss said Monday the two Asian giants have taken a series of 'ambitious' domestic actions to combat climate change but want to draw the line at anything that would upset their economic growth strategies.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - India and the United States have decided to work together over the issue of climate change and collaborate jointly in areas of renewable energy and clean technologies. The decision was reached as New Delhi's first high-level dialogue on the issue with the Obama administration concluded in Washington.

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).