There’s a “growing awareness” that current policies won’t get near the temperatures goal, said Christiana Figueres, the lead UN envoy guiding the talks. Her predecessor is more blunt about it. “The 2-degree target is gone in the sense of it being delivered in Paris by this process,” said Yvo de Boer, now head of the […]

The fortnight it took for UN climate talks to finally stagger to an end in Lima on Sunday morning has shaken many assumptions about what it will take to achieve the historic global climate deal due to be sealed in Paris next December. “If so much blood flows negotiating the prenuptial, what does that mean […]

Climate experts have warned that Karnataka is likely to be more vulnerable to climate change in India than other states. A report, ‘Transitioning towards climate-resilient development in Karnataka,’ has been prepared by 26 experts from institutions based in Karnataka (including Bengaluru), London and New Delhi under the leadership of Prof N H Ravindranath and Prof […]

Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has invited his successor President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to attend the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) summit in Bali in July 2015. Since November 2014, Yudhoyono has taken over the chairmanship of GGGI for the next two years, and he has invited President Jokowi to attend […]

BENGALURU: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said  his government is taking steps to ensure that development does not come at the cost of environment. He was speaking after releasing a report on the State’s Green Growth Strategy prepared by Bangalore Climate Change Initiative-Karnataka (BCCI-K) on Saturday. Expressing concern over climate change, Siddaramaiah said the government has taken […]

State became the first to get a green growth strategy which details what can be done in adapting to the climate changeand how the state can play its part in reducing carbon emissions.A consortium of institutions led by the Bangalore Climate Change Initiative – Karnataka (BCCI-K) in partnership with Seoul-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) has conducted the […]

The old way of doing business at Golden Agri-Resources and its sister company Sinar Mas drew heat from environmentalists, politicians and even the company’s own clients. Unilever , Nestlé and Burger King all suspended business operations with Golden Agri in 2009. The next year Greenpeace published a report titled “How Sinar Mas Is Pulping the Planet.” Two […]