We often talk about the “IT Climate” in the Country in a symbolic sense but recently “IT” got integrated with “Climate” in the literal sense when NIC successfully provided complete Information and Communication Technology support to the Eighth session of the Conference of the parties (COP-8) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held at New Delhi in October. All the sessions of the event, attended by delegates of several countries were also Webcast by NIC. Our lead story of this issue talks about the ways in which NIC supported the cause of the conference aimed at identifying solutions, generating awareness and enhancing action at all levels to respond to the significant global problem of environment protection. Here’s wishing a very Happy New Year to all our readers from the team of Informatics… Sonal Kalra