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Through raising the profile of existing climate solutions in India, IndiaClimateSolutions will become a resource for multiple Indian stakeholders on climate change best practice and a catalytic tool for accelerating the national and international climate response. Potentially this model could be expanded to other countries to become a global network of positive collaboration. It will provide; * A means to accelerate the uptake of climate change best practice and innovation across sectors. * A means to showcase to the international community the work that India is doing, a potentially strategic negotiating tool for the Government of India in international fora. * A forum to question, discuss and commenton India's climate strategy and how to capturelow carbon opportunities most effectively. * An opportunity to demonstrate and encourage leadership on climate change from the Indian nation.

After a year of watching adults engage in devastating recklessness in the financial markets and depressing fecklessness in the global climate talks, it's refreshing to know that the world keeps minting idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation. "Why did this tour happen?" asked Ringwald. "Why this mad, insane plan to travel across India in a caravan of solar electric cars and jatropha trucks with solar music, art, dance and a potent message for climate solutions? Well ... the world needs crazy ideas to change things, because the conventional way of thinking is not working anymore."

This report recommends ways to overcome obstacles to cooperation between the United States and China on climate change. The report is intended for senior leadership in each country....

Barack Obama is to invite China to join the United States in an effort by the world's two biggest polluters to stop global warming running out of control.

The report, which U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu co-chaired before his selection, outlines several bold, sweeping changes to reduce both countries' emissions.

Project Co-Chair Steven Chu Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley*

Scientists are to hold an emergency summit to warn the world's politicians they are being too timid in their response to global warming.

Simply put, if the oceans crash, we crash, and the signs of impending collapse are everywhere. On the other hand, it's becoming clearer that new solutions and policies may actually give us the capacity to understand and prevent that crash, if we have the will.

Scientists have been warning for years that climate change will bring higher temperatures and lower rainfall to Australia, increasing the likelihood of deadly wildfires. Some questioned whether Saturday's fire was a sign of things to come. "It's a sobering reminder of the need for this nation and the whole world to act and put at a priority our need to tackle climate change," said Bob Brown, the leader of Australia's minor Greens Party.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is an independent body established under the Climate Change Act to advise the UK Government on setting carbon budgets, and to report to Parliament on the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

US environment warning: 'An apocalypse for agriculture in California'