As biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation continue largely unabated, it is becoming critical to strengthen nature-based solutions in national climate strategies, including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). With the upcoming COP15 of the UN Convention on …
New Delhi: By endorsing the Copenhagen Accord at the just-concluded U.N. climate meet, India has failed to protect the interests of the people most affected by climate change not only in India but worldwide, environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday. Reacting to the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
NEW DELHI: Fresh from the solidarity displayed at the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, India and China on Tuesday agreed to continue cooperating on the issue in the coming months in order to safeguard the interests of developing countries. In a telephonic conversation, Foreign Ministers of both countries, S.M. Krishna …
NEW DELHI: The Copenhagen Accord was a dilution of the Kyoto Protocol as the former had no major reference to principles of equity and environmental justice, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of International Studies faculty member Professor Meeta Mehra has said here. No specific targets She was speaking at an interdisciplinary …
Bangladesh will continue its efforts to attain an international legally binding treaty by 2010 to cut carbon emissions which will help limit global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, state minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday. He said the proposed $ 30 …
Text of the debate on outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Rajya Sabha on 22.12.09. Jairam Ramesh said that Copenhagen accord was not legally binding. But Arun Jaitley said that government has been "outwitted" in drafting of this accord. This document presents the text of the statement by the …
Tribune News Service New Delhi, December 21 The CPM Politburo today slammed the Copenhagen climate conference for ending without clinching a legally binding agreement for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Without a treaty committing the industrialised countries to deep emission cuts, the lives of hundreds of millions, …
New Delhi: Even though the final document in Copenhagen contained no legally binding commitment by anybody, US officials are claiming the right to unilaterally verify or review what India and other countries are doing towards emission goals. Under pressure to defend the deal, White House senior adviser David Axelrod told …
Having stitched together a climate deal at Copenhagen with a select group of countries, the government will have to do some explaining in Parliament on Tuesday on some provisions in the Copenhagen Accord, especially those relating to international verification of voluntary action taken by India on climate change. The government …
Fresh from the world climate change talks which reached a last-minute non-binding deal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will make a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Monday where he is expected to say that India
RK Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has dismissed all charges of financial impropriety levelled against him by a prominent London newspaper. The accusations, published in the The Sunday Telegraph, were coming from the same group of people who had tried unsuccessfully to discredit …
A prominent environment NGO has strongly condemned world leaders at the climate summit for failing to finalise a "legally binding" treaty and brokering a "take it or leave it" deal which it said was full of loopholes. Terming the Copenhagen Climate Summit "a huge missed opportunity" Greenpeace today in a …
Inept and dubious are the only words that come to mind in describing the negotiations that have led to India endorsing the Copenhagen Accord. India chose to identify itself with the US, China, Brazil, South Africa
