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Climate talks: India mulls shift in stand

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: climate negotiations in the run-up to the global deal in Paris next year may not to be on predictable lines. After trade, the Narendra Modi government is now contemplating a strategic shift during talks, delinking India's position from China. Unlike the past where both India and China remained on the same page while batting for developing countries, a clear view is emerging in the government that...

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Nod to Dibang project shows why present forest clearance process needs to be scrapped -Chandra Bhushan

-Down to Earth Persisting with the current institutional arrangement will do more harm than good The manner in which the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has agreed to divert 4,578 hectares (ha) of prime forestland to construct the 3,000 MW Dibang multipurpose project (DMP) has yet again convinced me of the need to replace the present system of granting forest clearances. FAC, in its...

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Senior bureaucrat bats for food security concern

-The Business Standard Cabinet secretary asks WTO to not put issue on backburner but address it up front Laying down India's stand on World Trade Organisation negotiations, cabinet secretary Ajit Seth on Thursday said the country's food security concerns cannot be relegated to the back-burner, but should be addressed up front. "Addressing the food security concerns is important, as India still has 190 million hungry people," Seth said at an event organised...

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Letter to PM about US-India Bilateral Relations on Intellectual Property

-Kafila.org Dear Prime Minister Modi ji, We, the undersigned, wish to share with you some of our concerns on India's position on intellectual property (IP), particularly in the context of bilateral relations between the United States of America and India. We gather from the US-India Joint Statement dated 30 September 2014 that the Indian Government (a)greeing on the need to foster innovation in a manner that promotes economic growth...

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India gives in partially to US demand on climate change -Nitin Sethi

-The Business Standard The govt takes the final decision to partially accept US demands on the phase-out of global warming refrigerant gases in India India took a leap forward to meet US demands on climate change with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's and US President Barack Obama's joint statement. The government took the final decision to partially accept US demands on the phase-out of global warming refrigerant gases in India, a step India had...

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