Declaring that “science is politics in climate change; climate science is politics”, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday urged Indian scientists to undertake more studies and publish them vigorously to prevent India and other developing countries from being “led by our noses by Western (climate) scientists who have less of a scientific agenda and [...]

Bayoubuzz News: In 1990, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its first report on “global warming.” The report featured numerous scientific studies to predict that the global temperature of the Earth would warm by 1.1 degrees Celsius between 1990 and 2030. The culprit, according to that report (and subsequent ones by [...]

Economics Times: The environment ministry .s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) – the statutory body for forest clearances – has recommended that no forest land be diverted for three hydropower projects in Uttarakhand . This would mean that the projects would have to be abandoned. Proposals for diversion of forest land for NHPC’s Kotlibhel IB and [...]

TimesNow: India should carry out more independent studies on climate change and not allow Western scientists to take the initiative as they have “more politics and less science on their mind”, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday (June 8). Speaking after the release of ‘Discussion paper on Snow and Glaciers of Himalayas’ prepared [...]

IISD: The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a report titled “Taking Steps Toward Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management: An Introductory Guide.” The report highlights how planners and policy makers in local, national and regional governments can adopt an ecosystem-based management (EBM) approach to help ensure sustainable development for marine and coastal environments and the livelihoods that [...]

Edie.net: A research project to generate renewable energy via water storage systems has been given £500,000 funding grant from the EU. The research project is being carried out by Bangor University’s School of Environment, Natural Resources & Geography (SENRGY) and Trinity College Dublin. The researchers have found a way to use the water pressure within [...]

TreeHugger: Post-World Environment Day in Delhi, I’ve been spending some time along the River Ganga in Varanasi, so this next one coming via The Australian caught my eye. With the monsoon rains a couple weeks off the river is very nearly at the lowest level of the year and there’s an extensive sand bank opposite [...]

At how changes in land use impact on the carbon stored in vegetation. Biocarbon is the carbon absorbed by plants through photosynthesis and stored in their biomass and soils. Maintaining stores of biocarbon is important for minimising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. BioCarbon Tracker uses satellite data and advanced methods to map the ecosystems where [...]

The Baltimore Sun: Sunday’s column was about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to pull the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. It was critical of Christie’s decision. Perhaps predictably, I got emails from climate-change skeptics saying or implying I am a dupe of the liberal establishment. One was typical of previous missives [...]

vancouversun.com: Canadians may abhor the rising price of gasoline, but Thomas Stocker suggests the planet might be better off if it soared to “three to four” times its current level. “This is scandalous, I know,” said Stocker, adding sky-high gasoline could help slow the climate change which world leaders have declared one of the greatest [...]

DNA: All manufacturers and importers of electronic items, including TVs, computers and mobile phones will have to put in place an elaborate network of waste-collection centres by May next year. The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has notified a new set of “producer responsibility” rules that will come into effect from May 1 next [...]

ILO Green Job: The green jobs site is the training platform of the ITC ILO. It provides information about the link between climate and environmental change and transitions in the world of work. It gives examples of how enterprises, workers and governments contribute to cleaner and greener production and consumption patterns through green jobs. But it also gives you [...]

Economist: Energy- Redesigned wind turbines can wring more power out of mountain winds, which are otherwise difficult to exploit ONE reason for Japan’s reliance on nuclear power—with all its attendant difficulties of building reactors safely in an earthquake zone—is its lack of indigenous energy sources. Yet it does have one that seems under-exploited, namely the [...]

Forest Carbon Asia: Really? Thought few CDM AR projects, long-winded process, complicated methods, no demand, no future? Did something change? How does it compare to other CDM sectors and to voluntary forest carbon standards?  It is generally believed that CDM AR is a failure – both compared to other CDM sectors and compared to the [...]