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 …
THOUGH media reports point to an acrimonious and anarchic Copenhagen Summit, in hindsight it appears that there has been a method in the madness. Just run through the ensuing version of Copenhagen Climate Play. Act 1: Copenhagen witnesses the expected. G77, India and China bargained hard on issues close to …
Says US No Longer Bound By Its Pledges On Carbon Emission Cuts Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI THE Manmohan Singh government on Sunday came under attack from the Opposition for being part of the
With no signs of a possible deal at the Climate Summit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that future negotiations on tackling the menace should be based on equitable burden sharing as enshrined in Kyoto Protocol and Bali mandate. Addressing the crucial final day of the summit, …
Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate meeting, which brought together 115 world leaders to deliberate on the perils facing the world from growing emissions, is near its bitter end. The conference has ended with meaningless commitments
Discussions Go On For Extra Day As World Leaders Try To Salvage Summit Copenhagen: World leaders went into an extra night of discussions in a bid to hammer out a deal on climate change, prompting PM Manmohan Singh to delay his departure and huddle into discussions with US President Barack …
Two years of preparations. Two weeks of hectic negotiations. Presence of more than 110 high-profile heads of states. Nothing helped. The deal to save the world from catastrophic effects of climate change remains as elusive as ever. But no one, least of all host Denmark, wants to admit that the …
Urmi A Goswami COPENHAGEN HEADS of state of key countries worked into the wee hours of Friday morning while negotiators from 26 countries continued till daybreak in their attempts to put together a political declaration for the heads of states and governments to adopt on Friday. The momentum induced by …
US president addresses the UNFCCC Climate summit on 18th Dec 2009 i.e., on the final day of the talks. He believes that it's time for the nations and people of the world to come together behind a common purpose. And must choose action over inaction; the future over the past …
India must insist that developed countries cut their emissions and compensate developing countries for the carbon space taken away from them. SECURING substantial progress at the earliest in the global climate negotiations is essential, particularly for developing nations as the consequences of global warming will affect them the most. Developing …
It has been a bumpy ride, with developed countries failing to make definite commitments and India hinting at a shift of stance. THE last leg of the climate change talks held in Barcelona, Spain, on November 2-6 in the run-up to the all-important 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to …
Copenhagen: On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the penultimate round of the biggest ever geopolitical game of the decade, being played out at Copenhagen, went to the developing countries. The attempt by the Danish PM to hijack the negotiations by presenting the West
With barely 12 hours left to hammer out a consensus that has eluded the world for over two years now, the first signs of thaw were visible at the climate change conference late today. After a formal commitment from the host country that no secret document was under works and …
New Delhi: A day before PM Manmohan Singh sets off for Copenhagen, India said a political agreement being worked out there should not change the goalposts regarding the Bali Action Plan (BAP). Virtually giving up hope for any comprehensive outcome, India is now looking beyond Copenhagen to the 2010 conference …
Copenhagen:Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natural landscapes like peat soils, swamps and fields that play a crucial role in curbing climate change. Environmental groups have long advocated such a compensation program. Rain forest destruction, which …
Cops Detain 240 Protesters Who Try To Storm Venue Copenhagen: As climate change negotiations heat up at the Copenhagen summit, civil society groups, delegates and indigenous representatives surely felt the heat. While hundreds of representatives gathered outside the climate change conference hall on Wednesday, to protest the government inaction to …
Amidst frenetic activity to stitch up a face-saving deal in the final hours, the ubiquitous Danish draft made a reappearance at the climate change conference on Wednesday, inviting a fresh round of vociferous protests from the developing countries, with China describing it as an
