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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Speech of Ms. Jayanthi Natarajan, High level round table on “Looking at the way forward in implementing the expected outcomes of the Conference” at RIO+20
Document contains the full text of Speech of Ms. Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Environment & Forests, Government of India, delivered at High Level Round Table on “Looking
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Equity at top of India's Rio agenda; targets to be avoided
Union Cabinet approves negotiating brief India will head to the Rio+20 summit in Brazil with a negotiating brief focussed on defending the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility” (CBDR) and preventing any attempt to pin down specific goals or targets regarding sustainable development. On Thursday, the Union Cabinet approved the strategy to be followed by Indian negotiators at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, popularly known as Rio+20 due to the first such summit held in Rio de Janeiro two decades ago.
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Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change
How should the scale and the nature of the immense risks appear to face from unmanaged climate change influence the way frame both the economics and the approaches to the values or ethics which bring to
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Equity, the new buzzword at Bonn climate negotiations
But a workshop on equity at the climate inter-sessional refused to move beyond well-embedded party demarcations. It was India, which at last year’s climate negotiations at Durban had insisted on bringing
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Equity and cost-effectiveness of multilateral adaptation finance – are they friends or foes?
This paper analyses potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change, as a response to one of the main governance challenges of international adaptation funding - the
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Equity & Global Climate Policy
Speaking at an international workshop on Equity and Climate Change, held on April 12, the minister for environment and forests, Jayanthi Natarajan, sought to build a consensus on the inter-relationship
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African nations back India on emissions: Seek Equity, Differentiated Responsibility
New Delhi: A tectonic shift in the global climate negotiations got underway with the African group of nations siding with India in demanding that equity and ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’
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Developed nations should set higher climate goals: India
New Delhi As part of its submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), India has sought an increase in the level of ambition by the developed or Annex-I countries,
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Call for global fight against climate change
Speakers at an international seminar organised by the British Council, Association of British Scholars (ABS) and the TKM Institute of Management (TIM) here on Monday stressed the need for the international community to join hands to combat the growing threat of climate change without stunting the growth of developing countries. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy who inaugurated the seminar said it was unreasonable to expect developing countries to cut the rising demand for energy and match the reductions by the developed world, when the levels of per capita energy consumption were so different.
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PM: Growth not at cost of environment
New Delhi Underlining the principle of “equity” in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said growth should take place in a way which does not harm the environment. During his meeting with Environment Ministers of BASIC countries, that is Brazil, South Africa, India and China, Singh said the principle of equity — equal per capita rights to the atmospheric space — should be the goal of future negotiations on climate change, sources said.