The Indian corporate remains unconvinced about Clean Development mechanisms (CDM) with only seven per cent of PSUs convinced about its efficacy. ONGC, SAIL and IOC have emerged as the front-runners in using CDM but the majority of PSUs have stee-red clear of adopting these emission reduction techniques. CDM allows emission reduction projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits (where reduction costs are lower) by selling these to

Responding to the increasing threat of Naxal menace in central India, minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh is pushing for an early amendment of the Indian Forest Act 1927 to allow greater democratisation of forest management.

Incessant rain has put the Tehri dam under tremendous threat with water levels in the reservoir crossing the 828.85 metre mark.

Experts from India, China and Nepal who gathered at the Juizhaigou National Park at the edge of the eastern Tibetan Plateau to help develop a regional framework to preserve the Kailash Sacred Landscap

Minister of civil aviation Praful Patel’s insistence on an early clearance to Mumbai’s second international airport seems to have nose dived yet again.

Real estate development along Mumbai’s multi-billion-dollar coastline has got an immediate boost with the relaxation of the new Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) 2010 notification.

Will next month’s high-profile Common-wealth Games, already beset by numerous other problems, get swamped under heavy rain? Given the deluge Delhi has faced this extremely wet September, some climatologists feel the city might experience a wet October as well.

Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica, who took over as head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) this July, said she expected rich countries to also indicate the “sourcing of $30 bi

Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean have led Indian scientists to conclude that the Indian Ocean is rising faster than other oceans.