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14.01.2012
Economic Survey to focus on financing climate change
Climate change will get pride of place in this year's Economic Survey with a special chapter proposed to be devoted to it. The move is a clear signal of the importance that the Finance Ministry attaches to climate change.
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12.01.2012
Warmer summers cause colder winters, scientists say
Reuters) - Warmer summers in the far Northern Hemisphere are disrupting weather patterns and triggering more severe winter weather in the United States and Europe, a team of scientists say, in a finding that could improve long-range weather forecasts.
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12.01.2012
Major Investors Show the Way on Climate Change
Anyone who thinks the business world doesn't believe in acting on climate change should check out what's happening at the United Nations today. Some 450 global investors who control tens of trillion in assets are gathering for the Investor Summit on Climate Risk and Energy Solutions.
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12.01.2012
Good COP or bad COP?
Durban was briefly in the climate spotlight with just months to go before the 20th anniversary of the 2012 Rio Earth Summit. Few of us at Rio in 1992 would have believed that so little progress would be made in the intervening years. Climate procrastination has put future generations at severe risk of increasingly dangerous climate disruptions. We have seen how national and international governments and institutions responded to the 2008 financial crisis in just two crucial days, but also how, in two crucial decades, they have achieved very little on the much deeper climate crisis. Nature neither defers decisions nor haggles; nor, as widely observed after the financial crisis, does nature do bailouts.
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11.01.2012
Elections no threat to global climate deal: U.N.
(Reuters) - Leadership changes this year among some of the world's heaviest polluting countries should not undermine progress towards setting up a new global legally binding climate deal by 2015, the United Nations' climate chief said on Wednesday.
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06.01.2012
We are maching into an abyss, Castro warns
CUBA'S iconic revolutionary Fidel Castro warns the world is on an "inexorable" march into the abyss this year because of climate change and the threat of nuclear war.
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06.01.2012
Climate disaster still looms after UN conference?
Euphoric assessments from ministers and the South African presidency, following the recent talks on climate change, failed to convince scientists and environmentalists that a looming global climatic disaster has been definitely averted
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05.01.2012
UK set to miss Euro renewable targets
The UK is on course to spectacularly miss European renewable energy targets despite the fervent enthusiasm of green campaigners in the Westcountry, after a new pan-EU report revealed the country is lagging behind all 26 other member states.
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05.01.2012
Top climate change stories of 2011
For Earth’s climate system, 2011 was an extraordinarily turbulent year. The United States saw a series of record-busting extremes, from a devastating tornado season to an epic drought in a vital agricultural region. The fusillade of extreme events kept global warming in the public conversation even as it slipped to the bottom of the public’s list of concerns in the face of a grim economy, and as “climate” became a four-letter word in Washington.
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04.01.2012
Insurance payouts point to climate change
Natural disasters in 2011 exerted the costliest toll in history — a whopping $380 billion worth of losses from earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, tsunamis and more. Only a third of those costs were covered by insurance. And the tally ignores completely any expenses associated with sickness or injuries triggered by the disasters.
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03.01.2012
It's time for sustainable development
Bill Clinton was set to enter the White House, the European Union was born and China had its first taste of a double cheeseburger with fries when McDonalds opened its doors in Beijing. That was 1992. A lot can happen in 20 years.
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03.01.2012
'Frog song' may help understand climate change
NEW DELHI: If not kissing the frog, at least appreciating their 'croak' may lead to some headway in to climate research . For the first time frog song is being monitored using automated sound recorders by Indian scientists to track the impact of climate change on amphibians in the forests of southern Western Ghats. The methodology for tracking their call has recently been standardized by researchers.
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