COP 16 (Cancun Summit)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms by a tyre pyrolysis plant, village Sakauti, Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 28/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …

Another opportunity missed

There is not doubt that the world was meeting in Cancun with little or no expectations for a deal. At the last meeting in Copenhagen, the split between the industrialized world and the rest was still wide open. The world remained divided on how it would share the economic and …

Jairam U-turn wins Merkels praise

New Delhi: At a time when he is getting flak for allegedly diluting the country

Taking stock of Cancun

T. Jayaraman Saving the integrity of the multilateral process in climate negotiations, with an outcome agreed to by both the global North and the South, is perhaps the most significant gain from Cancun. For several months now the oft-repeated litany was that little was expected of the climate negotiations at …

Experts raise questions over future of Kyoto Protocol

As the applause died down at the Moon Palace in the early morning on Saturday bringing the 16th annual climate change conference at Cancun to a close, the sense of achievement over the Cancun Agreements was replaced with a realisation that the road to Durban was going to be a …

Clearing The Air

Will India give away too much at the Cancun climate summit?To many analysts and experts, the Conference of Parties (COP) 16 or the United Nations Climate Change Conference at Cancun in Mexico appears doomed even before it starts. The negotiating positions of the biggest countries have grown further apart since …

Word Games

On my last couple of days in Cancun, while vestiges of the sense of despondency and low achievement of the initial days remain, Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh's impromptu statement on "binding commitments" and "appropriate legal form" has jerked many pundits -- especially those from the subcontinent -- up. The …

We cant shut door on talks

In a dramatic move that will alter India

Japan seeks firm commitments

Cancun: The climate talks at Cancun hit a bad logjam on Monday night with Japan and AOSIS (Association of Small Island Countries) demanding that India and other developing countries get bound into international emission reduction commitments before they allow Kyoto Protocol to continue or the long-term deal to proceed. India …

Small nations bullied at Hagen: WikiLeaks

Cancun: The Wikileaks cablegate hit the climate talks at Cancun as well with leaked documents showing how the US and EU had attempted to manipulate talks in favour of the Copenhagen Accord by offering monetary carrots to small countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change and cutting aid …

India team at green talks was left rudderless

Delays By Cabinet On Major Decisions Led To Confusion Cancun: The Indian team in Mexico carried on their business for a week at the climate negotiations without a clear mandate from the government. Till a day before the ministerial round of talks were to begin, on Monday, the team had …

Kyoto BASIC to outcome

Spelling out its non-negotiables for an agreed outcome at the Cancun climate change conference, the group of four major developing economies

US should raise 2020 target for cutting emission: Ramesh

INDIA urged the US to show greater ambition on reducing its emission of greenhouse gases. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh described the US offer on emission reduction as

Speech by Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests, India and leader of Indian delegation

This document contains the speech by Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests, India and leader of Indian delegation, delivered at Cancun in the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP-16) on December 8, 2010.

Speech by Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Minister Of Environment & Forests, India and Leader of Indian Delegation delivered at Cancun in the Conference of Parties to …

Speech by Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Minister Of Environment & Forests, India and Leader of Indian Delegation delivered at Cancun in the Conference of Parties to the UNFCC (COP-16).

Politics of climate change

The Cancun meet is deeply divided. Governments are not taking a chance. They do not want to hear the noise of protests as they go about stitching a dirty deal that may not combat climate change or give the poor the right to development This week the world is meeting, …

Jairam gets Basic thumbs down

Group Rejects Proposal To Open Up Climate Actions To Intl Scrutiny Cancun: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh

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