Could the Indian Meteorological Depar-tment (IMD) have forewarned the people residing in J&K and upper regions of Himachal Pradesh about the unprecedented snowfall that has hit these states during the last fortnight, thereby giving the state administration lead time to prepare for climate-related calamities?

Water men Rajinder Singh and Manoj Misra of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan have filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court asking for a review of the 2009 Supreme Court judgment on the Yamuna river.

UNDP director for international finance Yan-nick Glemarec speaks to Rashme Sehgal.

Q. When do you see the Green Climate Fund finally seeing the light of day?
A. Climate funding is a very complex subject because the global financial architecture for this remains very complex. There are at present over 15 international public funds, over 50 carbon markets and over 1,000 equity funds which invest only in energy. Apart from several other financing mechanisms which invest in this (climate) area.
There are lots of different funds but a great deal of frustration on the project proposal side which has to meet strict eligibility criterion. It is very difficult to know which fund exists and which is the most appropriate. To develop the documentation on how to access them is also very difficult.

The Delhi Metro is the first rail network in the world to have two projects registered with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Not only has it succeeded in preventing release of almost one lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere but is also earning carbon emission reductions (CERS) under the carbon credit scheme.

Young parliamentarians maintain that no clear roadmaps have evolved on the question of climate mitigation and adaptation strategies on the ground. Speaking at a workshop organised by the UNDP and the department of economic affairs, parliamentarian Jay Panda expressed regret that renewable energy alternatives that he had attempted to implement in the constituency of Kendrapad (from where he had been elected) in Orissa had met with little success.

Was the video of half-naked tribal Jarawa women dancing before tourists in the Andaman and Nicobar islands made with the help of local forest guards?

Minister for environment and forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan has shot off a letter to European Union Commissioner for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard demanding a reversal of the carbon tax on airline emissions.

In order to counter the safety and health allegations being levied by agitating communities of farmers and fishermen in Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu and Jaitapur in Maharashtra, the Nuclear Power Corpora

With the ministry of health having given the green signal for allograft or the transplanting of tissues from one person to another, a major push for tissue transplant was given at the 99th Indian Scie

The project director of the DRDO Advanced Systems Laboratory at Kanchangagh, Dr Tessy Thomas, said that India was ready to test launch the nuclear-capable Agni 5 missile within the next two-three mont