UN chief hopes Modi attends UNGA; climate change summit

United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-moon "very much" hopes that Narendra Modi attends the UN General Assembly in New York later this year and particularly participate in the climate change......

UN chief wanted Modi to be at climate change summit

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that he "really wanted" Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate in a crucial climate change summit in New York next week to mobilise......

Lucknow girl addresses the world on climate change

13-year-old Yugaratna Srivastava from Lucknow addressing the United Nations Climate Change Summit on Tuesday at New York, representing the voice of the global youth on the issue. United States......

Greta Thunberg blasts world leaders at UN over climate change

"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," were the emotional words of Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish environmental activist, who blasted the world leaders gathered at......

Climate change? India must play it hard

Even as some within the United Progressive Alliance government say that India hopes to become less of an obstructionist in dealing with the international community on global climate change......

Paris protests muted but world speaks up for climate change

The French have scored a diplomatic coup by reversing the order of proceedings in such summits. Beginning with Rio de Janeiro in 1992, national leaders arrive at the end of the summit to ratify......

Poor nations struggle to spend climate change aid, what next?

A boy wades, through stagnant water, past recyclable items collected from a garbage dumpsite in Manila. Photograph: John Javellana/Reuters Billions of dollars pledged by developed nations in......

India announces new climate change targets

Subject to finance & tech from rich countries through an ambitious, fair Paris deal The government has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions intensity — the ratio between a......