Nair briefs Ban Ki-moon about India’s views 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.

September 26th, 2009 DHAKA - Applauding India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and the discovery of water on the moon, a Dhaka daily has said the find has significantly widened the scope for space research. But The Daily Star newspaper, in an editorial Saturday, cautioned against rivalry among those engaged in research and exploration on the moon.

September 25th, 2009 NEW YORK - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Friday said that India's "principled" stand on CTBT is not likely to change unless a number of other "developments" take place to address its concerns. During a high level conference on disarmament addressed by UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon, India and eight other countries were asked to ratify the agreement so that it comes into force.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said climate change had hindered the progress on programmes focused at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Nepal. Madhav Kumar, who is in New York, to attend the 64th United Nations General Assembly took part on the Opening Session of the High-Level event and Interactive Round table on Climate Change convened by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday.

September 22nd, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Warning that the global economic recession could hinder the ability of countries to take necessary steps to combat climate change, President Barack Obama Tuesday told world leaders "we are determined to act". "The journey is hard.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will articulate India's stand on climate change at the UN summit being hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday. Krishna will represent Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the summit hosted by Ban to bring about a fair and ratifiable green house gas reduction agreement at this year's Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK - The US and China committed to tackling their greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming and asked each other to do more to halt the rise in global temperatures, at the start of a one-day UN summit on climate change Tuesday. US President Barack Obama acknowledged his country has been slow to respond to the threat of climate change, but said: "This is a new day." "We understand the gravity of the climate threat.

September 21st, 2009 NEW YORK - The UN is looking to inject some much-needed political will into efforts to reach a new global climate treaty, as it hosts more than 100 world leaders Tuesday for a summit on curbing global warming. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has made tackling climate change his top priority during his time in office, will kick off the event Tuesday morning.

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.

August 13th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - Young men and women are being adversely impacted by climate change and rising unemployment, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said in a statement marking International Youth Day. "Climate change," he said, "continues to compromise economies and threaten tremendous upheaval, saddling young people everywhere with an unjust ecological debt." "This is a potentially crushing burden," he stressed Wednesday.

July 30th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - China must lead the global fight against climate change, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here after a trip to that country. "I wanted to highlight the special responsibility of countries like China to lead the global fight against climate change," he told UN correspondents.

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, Italy — The U.N. secretary general has rebuked the Group of Eight leaders for failing to make more committments to reducing climate change in the near future.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - The NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin has said that humans should create a settlement on Mars to provide much-needed objectives to the younger generation. Aldrin, the second man to set his foot on the Moon, has claimed that setting up habitation on the surface of the red planet is a "wonderful objective" for humanity.