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Jairam on UN secy-general’s climate panel

New Delhi: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has set up a high level panel on global sustainability headed by the presidents of Finland and South Africa and including Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh.

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10/08/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Joint statement issued at the conclusion of the Fourth Meeting of Ministers of the BASIC Group

This document contains the Joint statement issued at the conclusion of the Fourth Meeting of Ministers of the BASIC Group took place in Rio de Janeiro on the 25th and 26th of July 2010. Ministers reiterated the importance of the two pronged approach, which envisages, an ambitious and comprehensive outcome for the negotiations under both the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action u
Jul 2010
Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)
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Ramesh in ‘Green New Deal’

ENVIRONMENT minister Jairam Ramesh will represent India in the highlevel advisory panel on sustainable development being set up by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The panel is expected to be announced before the end of the month.

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15/07/2010
Urmi A Goswami
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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New text signals continuation of Kyoto Protocol

WITH a little over a fortnight before negotiators from 192 countries meet in Bonn for another round of talks, a fresh “facilitating text” for the Bali track or long-term cooperative action has been prepared by the chair Ms Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe of Zimbabwe. Unlike her last effort, this text addresses concerns of all groups.

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14/07/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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UN chief to set up climate panel to make talks growth-focused

UNITED Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is stepping in to give climate change negotiations push in the right direction. The UN chief will be setting up a high-level advisory panel, which will not focus on the day-to-day nitty gritty of the negotiations, but on the reasons which make a global deal an imperative.

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12/07/2010
Urmi A Goswami
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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India to host ‘dress rehearsal’ for Mexico

Nov Summit Will Hammer Out Contours Of A Deal On Green Tech Transfer New Delhi: India will host a two-day ministerial round on climate technology transfer and cooperation in November before the year’s big UN meet on the subject in Mexico. The meeting of ministers is intended to thrash out a deal on how the rich countries can share clean technologies with the developing world.

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03/07/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Add equity principle to climate draft: Ramesh

New Delhi: Attending the seventh meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) in Rome, environment minister Jairam Ramesh demanded that the principle of cumulative per capita emissions be embedded in the draft of the long-term deal.

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01/07/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents

India: taking on climate change post-Copenhagen domestic actions

India taking on climate change – Post-Copenhagen domestic actions New Delhi, 30th June, 2010: An Expert Group on A Low Carbon Strategy for Inclusive Growth; A “Carbon Tax” on Coal to Fund Clean Energy; Perform, Achieve & Trade (PAT) Mechanism for Energy Efficiency; Release of India’s National GHG Inventory 2007; National Mission on Sustainable Habitat (NMSH); Jawaharlal Nehru National Sola
Jun 2010
Ministry of Environment and Forests
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Climate for energy peg

A PROACTIVE MODEL, NOT RIGHT TO POLLUTE, WILL SPELL SUCCESS URMI A GOSWAMI

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29/06/2010
Urmi A. Goswami
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents

Conference on global carbon budgets and equity in climate change, Mumbai, 28-29th June, 2010

The conference on “global carbon budgets and equity in climate change” was held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, on 28-29th June, 2010.
Jun 2010
Tata Institute of Social Sciences

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