Emissions From India Will Increase, Official Says
In a blow to American hopes of reaching an international deal to fight global warming, India’s new environment minister said Wednesday that his country would not offer a plan to cut its greenhouse gas...
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China pollution levels hit 20 times safe limit
Days of heavy smog shrouding swathes of northern China pushed pollution to more than 20 times safe levels on Friday, despite government promises to tackle environmental blight. Visibility dropped...
View ArticleU.N. Panel Issues Its Starkest Warning Yet on Global Warming
COPENHAGEN — The gathering risks of climate change are so profound that they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway...
View ArticleChina, Coal, Climate
It’s easy to be cynical about summit meetings. Often they’re just photo ops, and the photos from the latest Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, which had world leaders looking remarkably like...
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Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change
DHANBAD, India — Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India’s coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents. But rather than...
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In Latin America, Growth Trumps Climate
SANTIAGO, Chile — Eco-warriors on the front lines of climate diplomacy often frame the environmental conflict between the developed and the developing world as a version of the notorious skirmish...
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With Compromises, a Global Accord to Fight Climate Change Is in Sight
LIMA, Peru — Diplomats from 196 countries are closing in on the framework of a potentially historic deal that would for the first time commit every nation in the world to cutting its planet-warming...
View ArticleChina Invests in Region Rich in Oil, Coal and Also Strife
KARAMAY, China — In a desolate park on the city outskirts here, oilbubbling from the ground fills small pools next to a wooden walkway. By one pool is a statue of a bearded ethnic Uighur man sitting on...
View ArticleBeijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution
Beijing, where pollution averaged more than twice China’s national standard last year, will close the last of its four major coal-fired power plants next year. The capital city will shutter China...
View ArticleNew coal plants ‘most urgent’ threat to the planet, warns OECD head
Governments must rethink plans for new coal-fired power plants around the world, as these are now the “most urgent” threat to the future of the planet, the head of the OECD has warned. In unusually...
View ArticleIndia’s coal-fueled economy taking a toll on environment and rural villagers
A giant power plant set atop what was once a virgin forest churns with coal from a nearby mine, a roaring example of India’s aspirations to best China’s economic growth and light the homes of its...
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