The recent report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the aspirational target in the Paris Agreement of lim....Read More
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The Paris climate negotiations are just a few days ahead. The base for this exercise is the Intended Nationally Determi....Read More
The Paris Agreement on climate change has been approved by the 195 nations after four years of arduous negotiation. It ....Read More
On 30 June China submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the the global effort for the miti....Read More
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The latest round of the global negotiations on climate change ended last Sunday in the usual fashion, with the host cou....Read More
In a few weeks the parties to the UN Climate Convention will meet in Lima, Peru to prepare for their Paris meeting in 2....Read More
This column comes to you from Rio where I am attending the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, popularly called R....Read More
Yet another UN climate meeting has ended with the world community taking a few hesitant steps on a road on which they n....Read More
About ten days from today the parties to the UN climate convention will have another bash at hammering out an agreement....Read More
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I have just returned after performing at the climate circus in Copenhagen. Like all sensible columnists, I will reserve....Read More
At the Pittsburgh Summit on Sept. 24-25, 2009, the leaders determined that the G-20 will replace the G-8 as the "perman....Read More
The climate negotiations are warming up as we get closer to December when a global deal has to be sealed at Copenhagen.....Read More
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On Monday 30 June, 2008 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released the long awaited National Action Plan on Climate Change ....Read More
Ten thousand people, including yours truly, went to Bali in early December in order to save the planet.....Read More
The political evolution of China is perhaps the most important source of uncertainty for the world economy and for inte....Read More
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About ten days ago a controversy erupted about a “We Hate India” site in the social-networking portal Orkut....Read More
Last week the General Assembly of the United Nations held a High-level Dialogue on Migration more than a decade after t....Read More
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The god who rules over foreign policy must be like Ardhanarishwara, a god who is half man and half woman.....Read More
The Government has recently set up a committee under the chairmanship of K.G. Subrahmanyam....Read More
This week Tunisia hosts a World Summit on the Information Society. Some 50 or so heads of state or government and a couple of hundred corpora....Read More
In the old days, the beginning and end of a teaching period in a college were often marked by the ringing of a bell. There was a sprawling college ....Read More