Biodiversity As Important To India As Climate Change: Jairam Ramesh

"Climate change gets the headline, biodiversity does not get the headlines," Ramesh told PTI as he left New York this weekend after a week of attending environment related meetings, including those with US Climate Change Negotiator Todd Stern and Chinese environment minister Xie Zhenhua.

"One of the purposes of my visit was to reestablish the significance of the importance of the convention on biodiversity so it doesn't fall by the wayside and get taken over by climate change," he said yesterday. Read the full report here.

Source: DNA.