Washington: President Barack Obama has praised the US leadership for making the historic Paris agreement possible by bringing "big, emerging countries" like China and India on board as he listed his successes from the year
Paris: The Paris climate change agreement is a victory for climate justice, India has said stressing that the multilateral deal preserves the development imperatives of developing countries and frames climate ambition in a "lens of
United Nations: Terming the Paris climate change deal as "a health insurance policy for the planet", UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said it is for the first time that every nation in the world has
Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama on Monday discussed measures to be taken by their countries, the world's two biggest polluters, to effectively implement the Paris climate deal and vowed
Paris: Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front collapsed in French regional elections Sunday, failing to take a single region after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The conservatives surged against the governing Socialists,
New Delhi: A landmark climate change deal was clinched in Paris on Saturday thats attempts to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2 degrees Celsius and endeavor to limit" them even more,
Paris: Amid cheers, hugs and tears of joy, delegates from 196 countries at the climate change conference here adopted late on Saturday the first universal pact committing them to curb global warming to well below
Le Bourget, France: In a historic development, governments today adopted a global climate pact that for the first time asks all countries to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. The approval, which came amid a prolonged and
Le Bourget, France: France today presented negotiators from nearly 200 nations with what it called a "final draft" of an unprecedented climate deal to slow global warming and urged them to approve it. The deal
Paris: India on Wednesday strongly asserted that the goal of capping global warming to within 1.5 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times will require developed countries to "massively" reduce their emissions and "scale up" the financial
Paris: US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday held a “positive and constructive” meeting with Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar at the climate change conference here on various bilateral efforts made to reach a deal for
Le Bourget (France): Environment ministers from across the globe will strive this week to transform a draft that has conflicting proposals into a concrete climate pact to cap greenhouse gas emissions amid India's assertion that
Paris: India's negative image of a "spoiler" at the climate change conference here is changing for the better, even though contentious issues like financing by developed nations still remain on the table, a negotiator at
Le Bourget, France: India has expressed satisfaction with the first draft of the climate change accord released here with the new document retaining all its inputs as negotiators made "some progress" in hammering out a
United Nations: United States Permanent Representative at the UN Samantha Power has struck an optimistic note about India's participation in a climate change agreement at the Paris summit saying that its national action plan is
Paris: The brief meeting here between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan was "more of an ice-breaker than anything else", a Pakistani official said in remarks published on Tuesday.The meeting took place on Monday
Paris: For a Prime Minister who is projecting himself as a global leader, Narendra Modi's visit to Paris for Climate Change negotiations is being seen as his toughest challenge so far.A day before the beginning
Paris: Bitterly divided negotiators from nearly 150 countries began talks today on a landmark deal to cut Earth-warming greenhouse gas, amid rising emissions and 2015 threatening to be the hottest year ever recorded in history.The
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today returned home after his two-day visit to Paris during which he attended the crucial climate change conference and launched the India-mooted International Solar Alliance.“After historic @COP21 summit, where
Le Bourget (France): Pushing for a powerful climate deal, President Barack Obama called the global talks opening on Monday outside Paris an "act of defiance" against terrorism that proves the world stands undeterred by Islamic
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