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'Climate change is a good business opportunity'

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2009

The founding director of the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, Mike Hulme heads the EU integrated project ADAM (Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies) that contributes to EU climate policy. In India to participate in the Low Carbon Futures project of the British Council...

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Subject Tags: Environment , Technology

Pre-Copenhagen Executive Mission Matches U.S. Technology to Indian Needs

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2009

NEW DELHI, India - (Business Wire) The U.S.-India Business Council launched today the first annual Green India Executive Mission, with an executive delegation representing some of the world’s leading clean energy and water infrastructure companies. Led...

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PM seeks climate change consensus

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2009

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting of the National Development Council (NDC), a body comprising all the chief ministers and key cabinet ministers, to seek a national consensus on India’s position at the Copenhagen meet on climate change in December.

The...

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Subject Tags: Technology

UNFCCC chief suggests 3 pillars for climate talks

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2009

Barely six weeks to go before the crucial climate conference in Copenhagen, the nodal institution United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) has urged the member countries to urgently address three pillars – greenhouse gas (GHG) emission cut and reduction...

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Subject Tags: Environment , Technology

Cadbury shares vision for carbon trading

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 25, 2009

| Sourced From Accra-mail.com | The Ethical Sourcing Advisor at Cadbury, Tony Lass, has revealed how Cadbury is exploring innovative ways of encouraging Ghanaian farmers to adopt practices that will provide...

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China, India Cancel Out Copenhagen

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 24, 2009

Climate Change: With less than two months to go before the big Copenhagen Conference on global warming, two major nations have said "no thanks" to the no-growth agenda. For that reason alone, so should we. Following a deal signed late Thursday between China and India,...

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India-Norway MoU to boost CDM projects

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 24, 2009

New Delhi: India, which is the second largest beneficiary of clean development (CDM) projects after China, got a boost to its activities on Thursday with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Norway at the sidelines of the ongoing two-day high level global...

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Subject Tags: Technology

Policy to tackle climate change issue required - ASSOCHAM

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 24, 2009

According to the findings of an ASSOCHAM Business Barometer survey, India needs to commit itself to a target for reducing green house gas emissions at the ongoing negotiations on climate change if it is to win the battle against climate change. With 85% of the focus group...

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Subject Tags: Environment , Technology

Another Dissenter: Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Tim Coleman rejects ‘hysteria’ of global warming

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 24, 2009

Dr. Tim Coleman AlabamaWx.com Friday, October 23, 2009 Global warming, or what is now often reffered to as global climate change, is one of the most polarizing issues of our time. In this article...

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Geoengineering the Planet: The Possibilities and the Pitfalls

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 24, 2009

Interfering with the Earth’s climate system to counteract global warming is a controversial concept. But in an interview with Yale Environment 360, climate scientist Ken Caldeira talks about why he believes the world needs to better understand which geoengineering schemes...

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