‘Meltdown forcing rich nations to shelve anti-greenhouse projects’

September 17th, 2009 NATO chief hails missile defense "positive step"BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says a U.S. decision to shelve plans for a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland "is a positive step." Fogh Rasmussen says he had talks with the U.S.

September 10th, 2009 BRUSSELS - European taxpayers should be prepared to pay up to 15 billion euros ($21.9 billion) per year to help poorer nations confront climate change, officials in Brussels said Thursday. The European Union's executive, the European Commission, moved to take the lead in the world fight against global warming by being the first major player to quantify, at around 100 billion euros (around $146 billion) per year by 2020, the amount of funding that developing countries will need to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to rising temperatures.

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 20th, 2009 NOIDA - The financial imbalance in the world economy is one of the major causes of the current global meltdown, according to noted economist Lord Meghnad Desai. The message of Desai, Professor emeritus of London School of Economics, was read out at the brainstorming session organised by the Global Economic Forum (GEF) here Monday on After-effects of financial meltdown: World economy five years ahead.

June 22nd, 2009 JIUTEPEC - Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has called on the world's leading nations to contribute $10 billion to endow a Global Green Fund charged with financing programmes to combat climate change. "We want it to become a financial mechanism that mobilises and brings together the different investment efforts dealing with climate change," Calderon said Monday in this central Mexican city of Jiutepec at the beginning of a two-day preparatory session for a forum next month on energy and climate.

June 12th, 2009 Obama won't rule out releasing detainees in USWASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says the Obama administration hasn't decided whether or not to release Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama has made clear "we're not going to make any decision about transfer or release that threatens the security of this country." Asked if that meant he was ruling out releasing any detainees in the United States, Gibbs said: "I'm not ruling it in or ruling it out." A tentative plan to release some Guantanamo detainees in the United States drew fierce opposition from Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, forcing the Obama administration to shelve the plan to bring some Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs to Virginia.

May 8th, 2009 EU seeking energy independence from RussiaPRAGUE — The European Union is seeking to reduce its energy dependence on Russia at a conference meant to lock in supply commitments from eight southern gas producing nations. The meeting is to sign a declaration that calls for linking the EU by pipelines to gas-rich nations on the Caspian Sea and beyond.

March 29th, 2009 ALIGARH - Greed and individualism must give way to a cooperative approach of Islamic financial system to rid the world of the current economic meltdown, a renowned Muslim scholar said Sunday. Nejatullah Siddiqui, the scholar, was speaking at the inaugural session of the conference on Islamic Finance and World Economy organised by the Department of Business Administration, Aligarh Muslim University in collaboration with the Taqwaa Advisory and Shariah Investment Solutions (TASIS).

March 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The world's wealthiest nations should be responsible for China's pollution coming from exports, Chinese officials said amid talks with the US on how to combat global warming. China, the world's largest polluter together with the US, has a plan in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming even as its economy grows rapidly, said Li Gao, director of China's department of climate change.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Climate Change, Shyam Saran, on Monday underlined the need to make the strategic shift from reliance on fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. Saran added that the shift needs to be made now and should not be delayed any further.

February 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The global economic crisis has had a deep impact on the elderly in India, forcing them to push back voluntary retirement plans, tighten medical expenditures and postpone pilgrimages, a study conducted by an NGO has revealed. Agewell Foundation, an NGO working for the elderly, found in a study conducted across the country that following the meltdown, almost half of those interviewed have decided for the moment to shelve their plans of retiring early.

February 21st, 2009 OTTAWA - The participation of countries like China and India in the move towards green energy is 'absolutely critical', US President Barack Obama said here. Obama was in this Canadian capital on his first visit abroad as US president.

February 19th, 2009 OTTAWA - The participation of countries like China and India in the move towards green energy is 'absolutely critical', US President Barack Obama said here. Obama was in this Canadian capital on his first visit abroad as US president.

February 19th, 2009 OTTAWA - The participation of countries like China and India in the move towards green energy is 'absolutely critical', US President Barack Obama said here. Obama was in this Canadian capital on his first visit abroad as US president.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The global meltdown will not have any impact on rural development projects or budgetary allocations for the department concerned, the government said here Monday. 'We are expecting more budgetary allocation for our department in the coming fiscal.