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India says to better cuts in gas emissions growth Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Tue, Dec 22 06:42 PM Enlarge Photo A man walks in front of a garbage processing plant in Daddumajra village on the... The government could improve upon its aims to slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the environment minister said on Tuesday after returning from climate change talks in Copenhagen. India said it was willing to rein in its "carbon intensity" -- the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted per unit of economic output -- by between 20…

Calotropis procera (Ait.) Ait. f. giant milkweed ASCLEPIADACEAE Synonym: Asclepias procera Ait. General Description.—Giant milkweed is also known as sodom apple, calotrope, French cotton, small crown flower (English), algodón de seda, bomba (Spanish), cotton-france, arbre de soie, and bois canon (French) (Howard 1989, Liogier 1995, Neal 1965, Parrotta 2001). This plant is a soft-wooded, evergreen, perennial shrub. It has one or a few stems, few branches, and relatively few leaves, mostly concentrated near the growing tip. The bark is corky, furrowed, and light gray. A copious white sap flows…

Biofuels and Development The potential for biofuels is particularly large in tropical countries, where crop yields are higher than in temperate regions; also land and labour costs are generally lower. With crude oil prices above US$ 0.40 per litre, biofuels are increasingly competitive with fossil-based fuels. Cost reduction, improved conversion efficiencies and upscaling can assist developing countries in supplying the commodity markets with biofuels at competitive prices. International agribusinesses look at biofuel production as an opportunity for market diversification alongside food-…

Copenhagen is discussing climate change problems of green house gases. Nobody seems to care for the real problem of climate change being casued by unplanned growth of population which has neither to eat nor to feed nor keep themselves clean and keep environment clean. Slums are growing in several parts of the world with world population growing uncontrolled resulting in population pollution. Such nations who are not able to control their population should pay population tax to the world climate or UN. Its the slum populations which are destroying the climate of the world, uprooting the trees…

Obama says 'meaningful' deal struck with India, 3 others Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Sat, Dec 19 10:25 AM President Barack Obama today said the US has reached a "meaningful" deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions with four emerging economies, including India, but warned it was not enough to battle climate change. "It is going to be very hard, and it's going to take some time (to achieve a legally binding deal)," he said at the conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. "We have come a long way, but we have much further to go." The…

COPENHAGEN – President Barack Obama is holding another one-on-one meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in hopes of sweeping aside some of the disputes that have barred a final deal at an international climate conference. That makes the second private talk of the day between the two leaders in Copenhagen. Obama also scrambled his planned schedule earlier Friday by adding two impromptu meetings with a larger group of leaders from key developed and developing nations, though China sent lower-level officials to those. China is the only nation that emits more heat-trapping gases than the…

Developed nations should deliver on Kyoto Protocol, says Manmohan Singh Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 18 07:30 PM Copenhagen, Dec.18 (ANI): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said that there is need for the developed nations to deliver on Kyoto Protocol and that there should be no dilution in the principle of equitable responsibility to share burden for climate change. Addressing the Heads of State meet at the Copenhagen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stressed that the nations should not try to replace the Kyoto Protocol…

Last-minute crumbs at Copenhagen With 24 hours to go, a minor US concession and a truce between squabbling nation blocs on Thursday allowed some crumbs to be salvaged from the Copenhagen climate summit. For India, in the months ahead, even this weak statement may imply more concessions from its stated position.Those crumbs will allow a political statement — short on specifics and long on generalities — to be crafted for 113 heads of states to sign off on Friday, last day of the conference, leaving the much harder task of a legally binding treaty to Mexico in November 2010. For India, in the…

India attacks Danes for keeping political statement secret Press Trust Of India Copenhagen, December 17, 2009 First Published: 20:58 IST(17/12/2009) Last Updated: 21:12 IST(17/12/2009) Print As prospects of a deal to combat global warming appeared bleak at marathon talks here, India today attacked host Denmark for keeping the political statement under wraps even as the US accused emerging nations of "backing away" from scrutiny of their climate actions. Hours before the key segment of the 12-day climate talks, to be attended by over 100 world leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan…

Biodiversity Informatics: the emergence of a field Indra Neil Sarkar1,2,3 1 Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA 2 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, VT, USA 3 Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Mathematical Science, University of Vermont, VT, USA author email corresponding author email BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 14):S1doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S14-S1 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www…