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Biggest climate show on earth to open in Copenhagen Buzz Up Share Copenhagen, Dec 6 (DPA) The Organisers of the Copenhagen summit have urged world leaders to get serious about climate change Sunday as thousands of officials from more than 190 nations headed here for 12 days of negotiations aimed at stopping global warming. 'Time is up,' Ivo de Boer, the UN's chief negotiator, said as he urged leaders to deliver 'ambitious' greenhouse gas cuts over the next two weeks. The long-awaited UN Climate Change Conference is to officially start Monday with an opening ceremony to be attended by Danish…

Copenhagen: A bad deal is worse than no deal The cat is out of the bag. However, the leaked political draft agreement crafted by the Danes holds few surprises. There is nothing in the draft Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment that was not known before. Indeed the direction has been obvious since the G-8 meeting in L'Aquila. The desire for a new agreement that negates historical responsibility, diluting obligations to provide finance and technology, dividing the developing world into new categories, requiring peaking of emissions by the more developed developing countries, and…

Wen calls up Manmohan to discuss Copenhagen summit Buzz Up Share New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) As India and China face a tough task of tilting the climate change negotiations in favour of developing economies, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to exchange views on the Copenhagen summit. 'Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Wen Jiabao today called the prime minister on telephone,' an official communique from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said here. 'The Prime Minister and Premier Wen Jiabao exchanged views on the…

China emissions could double by 2020: Experts AFP 10 December 2009, 09:54am ISTText Size:|Topics:China emissions 2020 BEIJING: Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon emissions could double by 2020 as compared with 2005 levels, surpassing Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment limits seen as key to fighting global warming, experts say. As officials in Copenhagen discuss how nations can share the global burden of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, experts are crunching the numbers to determine the future level of emissions by China, the world's top…

The next weeks will be intense for climate change activists.  In Copenhagen from December 8 to December 18 sixty five world leaders are meeting for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Obama administration showed its commitment to the issue of climate change in its joint statement November 24th with India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh committing both heads of state to “contribute to global efforts to combat climate change.”   Then the EPA opened the way for executive orders on climate issues from the White House when it announced December 7th that greenhouse gases…

Global level climate change comes from individuals and their collective activities and can be solved at individual level only not by targets set at Copenhagen or Kyoto. We pollute the climate by our activities e.g. using refrigerators, air conditioners, polythene bags, growing corps of rice and sugarcane even in water deficient areas, bringing water through canals in sandy areas and not managing the vegetation of the areas, using excess of transportation , not remaining in home and devoting time to families instead running on roads finding peace on air and road and travel destinations. Now…

Cracks appear in G-77 bloc on Day One Nitin Sethi, TNN 8 December 2009, 12:46am ISTText Size:|Topics:Climate Copenhagen COPENHAGEN: The opening day of the meeting of 193 countries on climate change at Copenhagen was meant to be an occasion for reinforcing political A woman poses for a photograph beside the COP15 Copenhagen logo at the entrance to the Bella. (AFP Photo) More Pictures Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment rhetoric and niceties. But even before the meeting began, dark news of cracks within the biggest bloc of developing countries -- G-77 plus China -- started…

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Bioenergy is considered as the resource with the highest environmental impact amongst the renewable energy sources and this does not refer to incineration or waste treatment only, but it even applies to wood combustion. This is due to the fact that there are always residues (such as ash and liquid effluents) to be disposed off and practically in all applications there is a stack or a chimney. This may induce the general public to relate bioenergy plants to coal fired plants, incinerators and in general emission of gaseous pollutants. It is therefore mandatory that all…

A devastating drought, possibly the worst of the last century, is sweeping through Kenya-- killing children, spreading malnutrition, crippling economies and resulting in the death of livestock and wildlife reserve. Rewind 30 years. Reports on the worst famine in West Africa—Mali, Mauritania, Chad and Sudan— during the 1970’s and early 1980’s made  headlines across the world. Same situation. Different country. From the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Indian Ocean in the east, along the southern border of the Sahara, straddling roughly the 13-north…

SOME POTENTIAL PLANTS FOR BIO-ENERGY. ASHWANI KUMAR AND AMIT KOTIYA Bio-Technology Lab,Department of Botany University of Rajasthan, Jaipur - 302 004 Engery Plantation Demonstration project and Biotechnology Center. Email. msku31@yahoo.com ABSTRACT : India has land area of approximately 329 mha, out of which 150 mha of land area in India is uncultivable and around 90 mha. is characterized as wasteland. The arid region of India lies between 24° and 29° N latitude and 70° and 76° E longitude and covers 3,17,090 km2 area spread over seven states (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra,…