China’s chief negotiator to UN climate change talks said here on Tuesday that the country is drafting a special law dedicated to climate change and will explore a low carbon development path suitable to China. “We are in the process of preparing for a special law dedicated to climate change and we have already set

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Multi-billion pound spending on climate change and carbon markets could be wasted because of significant corruption and fraud, according to charity Transparency International. In a report to be released today the anti-corruption group will warn that all of the 20 countries most affected by climate change score badly on its corruption index. The industries likely

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VARANASI: At a time when weather experts and environmentalists around the world are worried about the repercussions of climate change due to global warming, a young scientist from National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, contrarily believes that the world is gearing to face ice age conditions, may be after 500 years. And, he has strong

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VARANASI: Have we moved from relief-centric disaster management to disaster mitigation that calls for early preparation to minimise the damage from disasters? If experts of disaster management in the country are to be believed, the country has still a long way to go in disaster mitigation, even if the latest developments in the field are

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A two-day state-level orientation workshop was conducted in the city to implement the ‘National Environment Awareness Campaign’. The workshop began on Friday. Organised by ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and Viksat (Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction) of Nehru Foundation for Development, the workshop was held at Centre for Environment Education (CEE). The theme

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