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Despite his propensity to divide policy makers, environmentalists and the public, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has just made a valuable suggestion. His plea not to eat beef, deserves really serious attention. Full Article at Hindustan Times
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It does seem that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh chose an inopportune time — the eve of the crucial UN climate negotiations — to endorse the findings by a retired scientist that Himalayan glaciers have not been ‘retreating’ any faster than they... Full Article at Hindustan Times
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, checks the time as Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, and Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India... View Photo »
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India’s position would be strengthened internationally if we are aggressive at home. While we must be proactive in our domestic measures, India will never agree to targets
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Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh today said the Neutrino Observatory (INO), an underground experimental physics project, at Singara in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu is a ''closed chapter.'' Talking to newspersons here, he... Full Article at Webindia123
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NEW DELHI: As the world struggles to come up with a climate change deal, India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, has challenged it to follow the example of millions in his country and refuse to eat beef in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas... Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
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Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh released a report last week that says there is no conclusive evidence that climate change has caused the melting of the Himalayan glaciers. Full Article at EcoEarth News
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Indian Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh attends the Delhi High Level Conference on Climate Change Technology Development and Transfer in New Delhi on October 22, 2009. View Photo »
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A resolution will be passed here and a charter of demands regarding saving the islands from sinking and preventing the humans as well as the Sundarbans’ wildlife from becoming climate refugees will be chalked out. It will be sent to the Copenhagen Summit through Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
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India's Environment Minister suggests the world adopt vegetarianism if it is to tackle the greenhouse emission problem, writes Matt Wade in Delhi. Full Article at The Age
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Coimbatore: Eighteen Periyar Dravida Kazhakam activists were arrested here today when they tried to stage black flag demonstration against Union environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh on Mullaperiyar dam issue. Full Article at DNA India
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, checks the time as Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, right, and Maldives' President Mohamed Nasheed, left, look on at an international conference on technology and climate change in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
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U.N. Undersecretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, back to camera, talks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, as Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, left, and Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, second from left, look on at an international confer...
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 21: Indian Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh and Director general of climate change Su Wei attend the 2009 Climate Week NYC kickoff at The New York Public Library on September 21, 2009 in New York City.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 21: Indian Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh and Director general of climate change Su Wei attend the 2009 Climate Week NYC kickoff at The New York Public Library on September 21, 2009 in New York City.
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Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh Danish (L) delivers a speech as Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen (R) looks on during a Climate Changes and What are the Opportunities for India in a Green Economy meeting in New Delhi on September 11, 2009.
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Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen (C) shares a light moment with Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (L) during a Climate Change and What are the Opportunities for India in a Green Economy meeting in New Delhi on September 11, 2009.
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Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen (L) shares a light moment with Indian Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh during a Climate Change and What are the Opportunities for India in a Green Economy meeting in New Delhi on September 11, 2009.
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(L-R) India's Foreign Minister Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and national security advisor M. K. Narayanan share a laugh after a meeting between Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Septem...
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India’s position would be strengthened internationally if we are aggressive at home. While we must be proactive in our domestic measures, India will never agree to targets
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A resolution will be passed here and a charter of demands regarding saving the islands from sinking and preventing the humans as well as the Sundarbans’ wildlife from becoming climate refugees will be chalked out. It will be sent to the Copenhagen Summit through Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
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You should not have too much expectations from Copenhagen summit. The mandate to negotiate will get renewed. It seems there is a long haul before we arrive at a meaningful international commitment
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: Economic Times -
I've written a letter to union MoEF minister Jairam Ramesh requesting him to highlight the Aila-hit Sundarbans during the Copenhagen negotiations next month
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India’s position would be strengthened internationally if we are aggressive at home. While we must be proactive in our domestic measures, India will never agree to targets
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: Economic Times -
I will also be meeting ministers Jairam Ramesh [ Images ] and Sibal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ], Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi [ Images ] and others in the Indian government
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Do not expect anything much from Copenhagen. We will stick to our stand
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: Times of India -
We are seeking the intervention of the environment minister to stop commercial cultivation of BT brinjal. We have already sent a letter to Jairam Ramesh and also the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in this regard
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Don't expect anything much from Copenhagen. We will stick to our stand
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: Webindia123 -
India’s Minister of Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, has already expressed his concerns at the way the original permissions to start the mining operation were allowed. It is time for the Indian government to uphold the rights of the Kondh tribal people and stop this destructive project from going...
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We have notified the ambient air quality standards in India which is equivalent to the European level and exceeds the standard prevalent in the US.
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Some reports suggest that Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh is pushing towards the acceptance of binding commitments on emission reductions by India without any matching commitments from the developed nations.
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The review of the NAAQS and inclusion of new parameters were carried out by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur
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While Rahul irks Mayawati by staying in Dalit ghettos, the Union Minister for Environment, Jairam Ramesh has given a clean chit to Mayawati’s Rs 500 dream project of building a park at Noida.
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More or less the earlier points were reiterated and developing countries said that any proposal that does not conform to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), or the protocol, will not get our support
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: livemint.com -
It is this attitude I condemn. Should not a Chief Minister have dashed to New Delhi and confronted the Prime Minister and Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh (for giving the nod to Kerala)?
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It is high time India made an investment in understanding what is happening in the Himalayan ecosystem.
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it is not my purpose on this occasion to go through a litany of why we must act, but rather just to make the subtle point that the shift in emphasis that your Prime Minister (Dr Manmohan Singh [ Images ]) and you (turning to environment minister Jairam Ramesh [ Images ]) and your able colleagues have no...
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Most Himalayan glaciers are retreating. But some like Siachen are advancing and some like Gangotri are receding at a declining rate. However, there is no conclusive scientific evidence to link global warming or black carbon and the retreating Himalayan glaciers and that they will vanish in near future a...
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India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has also been making some quite strong statements here about quantifying the reductions embodied in India's plans and really raising their ambition
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We've also received a proposal from Teri [The Energy and Resources Institute] for a study on black carbon. It is a three-year project with a budget of Rs3 crore ... We are not challenging the intergovernmental panel on climate change. They know of our study. It is time to depoliticise the glacier issue ...
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The Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has announced that while India's per capita emission is much lower than developed countries they will even look at a per capita emission plus
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India can show the world that without taking on legally binding targets, we as a responsible country are willing to take aggressive accountable domestic targets to show that we are not only taking mitigating action but demonstrating mitigating outcomes.
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: EcoEarth News -
The health of Himalayan glaciers is poor ... But according to the paper, the doomsday prediction of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore is also not correct. I want scientists to critique the report.
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: Hindustan Times -
There is no conclusive scientific evidence to link global warming and Himalayan glaciers, nor to link the black carbon in the atmosphere with the glaciers ... We also cannot link retreating glaciers in the Arctic because of climate change to those in the Himalayas.
– Jairam Ramesh SOURCE: livemint.com
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