Rich and poor nations at climate change talks are lining up behind an EU plan for achieving a global pact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, under pressure to reach some kind of a deal ...

285 top investors who represent US $20 trillion in assets pushed leaders of the world to take urgent climate change and clean energy action in a letter last week. The 2011 Global Investment Statement on Climate ...

Country is actively pursuing a low carbon growth strategy in power sector to address climate related issues said minister of power Sushilkumar Shinde at the International Energy Agency (IEA) ministerial meeting in Paris.  IEA meeting was ...

The result of a recent market survey among consumer durable customers revealed that the energy efficiency label play a crucial role in purchase decisions. This shows the growing energy efficiency trend among Indian consumers. The study was ...

In the backdrop of the controversy over environmental clearances to major projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said an independent regulator would soon revamp the process and help protect ecology without bringing back “the hated licence permit ...

India has said discussion on climate change in the Security Council is a welcome step, but maintained that the 15-member body does not have tools to deal with the issue. Following a day-long debate in the ...

In a bid to reduce the carbon emission from flights, Lufthansa had launched a six-month bio-fuel trial on regular scheduled flights. A Lufthansa Airbus A321 with the registration D-AIDG will fly on the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route four ...

The stern and the tough Jairam Ramesh lost his portfolio of Environment and Forests in the cabinet reshuffle today. Jayanthi Natarajan will be the new minister for Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). In a substantive yet ...

Genetically modified crops have saved around 18 billion kg of Co2 gas emissions, which is equivalent to removing 8 million cars from the road, a fact that reveals importance of the newer plant technology in mitigating ...

An IBM supercomputer is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world, according to the latest Supercomputing ‘Green500 List’ announced by Green500.org. A prototype of IBM’s next generation Blue Gene®/Q supercomputer is #1 on the list. The ...