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Many western nations have distorted IPCC reports: Jairam

Mumbai: Cautioning against “environmental propaganda” Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh told journalists here on Saturday that the West was using the science of climate change for political gains.

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Saran to quit PMO after differences with Jairam

MUKESH RANJAN and RASHME SEHGAL

Differences with minister of state for envi- ronment Jairam Ramesh has led the Prime Minister's special envoy on climate change, Mr Shyam Saran, to put in his papers. He has been allowed to leave the Prime Minister's Office with effect from March 14.

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Osama uses climate change in new tirade

ALI KHALIL

Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lectured the US and other industrial nations on climate change, and urged a dollar boycott in response to American "slavery," in a fresh verbal assault broadcast on Friday.

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Aligning with China in Copenhagen a mistake: Bhagwati

Eminent economist Jagdish Bhagwati today said India had made a mistake in aligning with China at the recent climate conference in Copenhagen. Instead, the country should have taken a leadership role in climate talks by coming forth with fresh ideas.

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China transfers top climate negotiator

Ananth Krishnan

BEIJING: He Yafei, one of China’s top negotiators at the climate talks in Copenhagen, was removed from his post this week as Vice Foreign Minister amid an increasingly rancorous blame-game between Beijing and the West over China’s role in the negotiations.

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Ridiculous to suggest that TERI is a company about money

NEW DELHI: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has expressed pain over the “unfounded and motivated” attack against the institution, especially its head R.K. Pachauri, in a leading U.K. newspaper.

The December 20 article alleged that the TERI maintained close links with the Tata Group and helped it develop its carbon trading business worldwide.

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I never amassed fortune: Pachauri

RASHME SEHGAL
NEW DELHI

Dr R.K. Pachauri, chairman, The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), on Wednesday issued a lengthy denial about having misused his position "to amass a huge fortune" as had been alleged in an article written by climate sceptic Christopher Booker and recently published in the Telegraph, UK.

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