Climate equity: women as agents of change
The “Climate Equity: Women as Agents of Change” Report has been jointly produced by the National Commission on Status of Women and UNDP Pakistan. The findings of the report have emerged from an extensive
Climate Equity
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Bonn has set the right climate
BONN-II MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE failure that it is being made out to be. Yes, there was no negotiating text at the end of the fortnight, there was no movement on increasing ambition by the rich industrialised countries, and the Kyoto protocol still lives on life support. By these counts, Bonn-II could well be adjudged as a faliure.
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Building a low-carbon future for all
An equitable distribution of emissions, amongst rich and poor countries and the citizens of every country, and green initiatives by India and China will ensure the planet gets a new lease of life, says Sunita Narain
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Meeting equity in a finite carbon world: global carbon budgets and burden sharing in mitigation actions
This document is the background paper for the Conference on
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Beyond cost-benefit: developing a complete toolkit for adaptation decisions
Cost-benefit analysis has important uses
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Equitable sharing of carbon space
THE third meeting of the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) ministers on climate change was held in Cape Town last month. The joint statement, released at the end of the meet, emphasised on equitable sharing of carbon space. This seems to be the core issue in climate change negotiations.
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The Hartwell Paper: a new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009
Climate policy, as it has been understood and practised by many governments of the world under the Kyoto Protocol approach, has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in 15 years.
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BASIC meet on climate equity in June
New Delhi: The BASIC group of India, China, Brazil and South Africa have decided to recast the debate about
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Thimphu Declaration towards a green and happy South Asia: 16th SAARC Summit 28-29 Apr 2010
This document contains the Sixteenth SAARC Summit Declaration: Thimphu Silver Jubilee Declaration
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Evaluating global climate policy: taking stock and charting a new way forward
The objective of this report is to derive evaluation criteria for global climate policy and to apply this analysis framework to a number of existing proposals for climate policy architectures relying on a global carbon market.
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Equity cannot be inequitable
Surya P. Sethi As the debate over India's climate change strategy continues, it is necessary to address some misconceptions about climate equity that are evident in recent pronouncements of the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, and the writings of his most recent adviser, Dr. Arvind Subramanian.