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 …
Consensus at the climate change conference lying tattered, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for Copenhagen on Thursday amid frenetic efforts to stitch together a face-saving deal. It
AS NEGOTIATORS at Copenhagen struggled to untangle controversial issues that stood in the way of a political agreement, India on Wednesday said it will ensure that the post-Copenhagen negotiations are carried out on the basis of the principles and provisions of the UN Convention and the Bali Action Plan.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has addressed the international climate change summit, COP 15, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, Wednesday. PM Nepal urged developed nations to provide sustainable and long-term financial support to vulnerable countries like Nepal to preserve the white mountains and green earth.Informing the summit of the new …
“And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go” – Bob Dylan in Desolation Row A coalition of activists from around the world, absolutely fed up with the long drawn ‘negotiation’ on climate change for ages, decided to present their version. These activists are predominantly young, who have …
AS NEGOTIATORS raced against time to hammer out a deal on climate change, a key UN panel on Tuesday issued a new draft on measures to combat the problem but provided no figures for long-term goal of cutting carbon emissions and financing for poorer countries. The new draft text, which …
As talks remained stalemated for a second straight day in Copenhagen, the climate change conference appeared to have hit a dead end, with little hope of the emergence of the comprehensive and equitable agreement that it was mandated to deliver. The ministerial meetings convened Monday after African nations protested the …
WITH just three days to go before the Copenhagen conference draws to a close, it is becoming increasingly clear that the real decisions on hammering out an agreement will be pushed to a later date. While expectation is being placed on the heads of state to come up with a …
At Copenhagen, Denmark, on 15th Dec 09, addressing the assembled delegates, Ministers and Heads of State at the high-level segment of the conference, Yvo de Boer stressed that now is the time to deliver:
Obama will grace COP15. And that is the biggest story out here. The story is so big that negotiators are forced to take this fact into their negotiating account. Why? It is because Obama cannot afford to lose a game. It does not really matter if the atmosphere or the …
Melbourne: Australia has allegedly wrongly presented its carbon emissions report by ignoring a massive rise in polluting gases from its agricultural and forestry industries, a report said on Monday. This
The Copenhagen conference will definitely go down as the worst meeting in global climate negotiations. There is a complete mess here: lines of people standing outside the Bella Centre, where the conference is taking place, wanting to get in. Inside the meeting has broken down for the umpteenth time because …
This document presents the summary of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day event held at the University of Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 December 2009. The Agriculture and Rural Development Day was co-hosted by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security, the …
Mr Todd Stern, the US special envoy on Climate Change, decided to make public certain things he just realised . He announced within an hour of reaching Copenhagen, “If you care about the science -- and we do -- there's no way to solve this problem by giving the major …
I thought of staying away from climate change completely. I thought any sort of engagement with climate change negotiation was nothing but lending my support to a corrupt process. But a few incidents at home just before the ‘epic’ meeting at Copenhagen forced me to say something. I thought of …
