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Emissions report tells only part of story, expert says

A report released ahead of Tuesday's UN climate summit, which shows China's per capita carbon emissions have surpassed those of the European Union, does not tell the whole story, an expert said. "China

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Earth Care Awards to pick climate champions

The 6th edition of the Earth Care Awards, a joint initiative between JSW & The Times of India, is set to embark on an exciting journey of identifying climate champions from South Asia. When the world

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Stop kerosene subsidy, promote solar lamps: Environmentalist R K Pachauri

Advocating the use of renewable energy in day-to-day life, eminent environmentalist R K Pachauri on Tuesday urged the government to cut the subsidy on kerosene and instead subsidise solar lanterns.

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Coastal cities need to be climate-proof, says study

“It is imperative to assess sea level rise, storm surge and cyclones” A devastated Vishakapatnam has brought home the need for coastal cities to be climate resilient in terms of extreme events with

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Australian agriculture needs to adapt, not simply shift, to meet climate change

Peanuts have moved north, tuna has moved east, wine has moved south. But sooner or later, Australia is going to run out of places to shift agricultural production to avoid the harsh effects of climate

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NASA Discovers the Worst North American Drought in History

Scientists may have just pinned down the worst drought in North American history. They've examined the last 1,000 years and found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the last

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IPCC corrects claim suggesting climate change would be good for the economy

Controversial statement, that was based on faulty data taken from a report by economist Richard Tol, has been removed from the final version of the report The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Europe emission targets 'will fail to protect climate'

Europe’s leaders are about to consign the Earth to the risk of dangerous climate change, a UN expert says. Prof Jim Skea, a vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the EU’s plan

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IPCC lines up for a sixth climate audit as economic costs corrected

More than a quarter of a century old and the bane of global warming sceptics everywhere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is not about to fade into the sunset. This past week, the UN body

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UN climate change draft sees risks of irreversible damage

Risk of “serious, pervasive and irreversible impacts”; governments, scientists to meet in Copenhagen on UN report; still time to limit warming, says IPCC draft Climate change may have “serious, pervasive

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Climate change threatens global health security: UN Environment Programme

SAN JUAN: The rapid propagation in recent years of infectious diseases such as Malaria, Chikungunya and even Ebola is one more example of how climate change threatens global health security. "Climatic

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United Nations climate panel warns of disaster

Time is running out to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, the UN’s climate experts warned Sunday, saying current carbon emissions were a potential path to disaster. Crowning a landmark review,

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Act now on climate change, says new IPCC report

India has to internalise climate considerations into development planning Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) R.K. Pachauri on Sunday said the window of action on tackling

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Phase out fossil fuels in power by 2100: IPCC

The world will have to completely phase out fossil fuels in electricity generation by the end of this century and reduce their use to 20% by 2050 if disastrous consequences of climate change are to be

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India advocates paradigm shift in solving global warming issue

India on Tuesday advocated a "paradigm shift" in finding a solution to global warming, days after UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that current trends in carbon emissions will

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Community action on climate issue

India says developed nations have a ‘historical responsibility’ to address climate change India on Tuesday advocated a “paradigm shift” in finding a solution to global warming, days after UN’s...

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Rich nations forced IPCC to drop key climate chart’

A leading advocacy group today claimed that rich nations forced the R.K. Pachauri-chaired Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to “drop” a chart accusing Western countries of consumption-based...

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IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Key Messages on Impacts (for Africa)

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Key Messages on Impacts (for Africa): Presentation by Shreekant Gupta, professor, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi at the Centre for Science And Environment Annual Media

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Implications of the IPCC AR5 Report for the UNFCCC Negotiations and...

Implications of the IPCC AR5 Report for the UNFCCC Negotiations and Mitigation Options in AFOLU (Agriculture Forest and Other Land Use): Presentation given by Shreekant Gupta, professor, Delhi School of

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More extreme weather events in the coming years: CSE

The number of extreme climate events has risen tremendously over the past 100 years and will increase due to climate change, the Centre for Science and Environment said Thursday. Figures presented by

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