Environment News and Analysis

Protected: Hope for COP15: India Ready for International Scrutiny of Mitigation Measures

Mridul — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:44:36 +0000

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China Building Coal Stockpiles of 100 Million Tonnes, Calls For Greater Emission Cuts From Developed Nations

Mridul — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:38:06 +0000

China is building four to six coal reserves each with capacity exceeding 20 million tonnes in order to address the problem of shortage of the fuel. Meanwhile, Chinese officials also called upon the leaders of developed nations to set ambitious carbon emission reduction goals. China is the world’s largest coal producer and consumer but lately the [...]

Economic Crisis A Hurdle In Climate Change Treaty Negotiations

Mridul — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:00:55 +0000

Lack of credit supply in world markets, high unemployment rates and plummeting economic growth rates are keeping nations from taking bold measures to protect the environment, noted the Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren. Countries around the world are worried that financially intensive schemes to protect environment could take away the much needed financial resources from the [...]

Russia Planning Nuclear Powered Offshore Oil Drilling Platforms in the Arctic

Mridul — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:38:13 +0000

Russia is planning to build floating and submersible nuclear reactors to power oil drilling platforms which it intends to use to extract the untouched oil and gas reverses of the Arctic. A floating nuclear power plant is being constructed at the SevMash shipyard in Severodvins located in north-east of Russia.The reactors will provide power to [...]

India: US Should Aim At Reducing Carbon Emissions By 40%

Mridul — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:03:21 +0000

India’s climate change envoy Shyam Saran has said that his country would like the United States to set ‘high-end’ emission reduction goals. Leading the Indian delegation into a gathering of largest polluting nations in Washington, Saran said that United States should aim to emissions targets between 25 to 40 percent. In comparison, President Obama has [...]