Developed countries may not accept the targets for the post-2012 phase under the Kyoto Protocol and may even abandon it altogether.

India

NEW DELHI: A month before the heads of state meeting in Copenhagen on climate change, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday that India was willing to be isolated but would not accept legally binding emission cuts.

The public has the right to know what India's stand is

New Delhi: The government on Thursday admitted what most have already accepted

Q&A: Maharaj K Pandit, director of the CISMHE
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi November 20, 2009, 0:40 IST

Ahead of the much-anticipated Copenhagen Summit, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday stated that the government will not agree on any legally-binding agreement on emission cuts, while at the same time put in place measures to cut emissions domestically.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday trashed a United Nation

Goa and Kerala have jointly won the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra (IPVM) Award 2008 for small States with a geographical area below 80,000 sq km for absolute and percentage increase in Forest & tree Cover respectively. Each of the States will be given Rs 2.50 lakh along with a scroll and a citation.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday urged people across the world to give up, or at least reduce, their beef consumption to bring down methane emissions. "Some people think this is a joke. But I am saying it very seriously. If people across the world give up eating beef, methane emissions would come down drastically," Ramesh said at a function here.