Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
The crucial climate talks in Durban are set to witness a clash of titans. This will comprise the BASIC countries comprising India, Brazil, South Africa and China who will be pitted against the US, which now finds itself receiving support from Russia, Japan, Canada and Australia, none of whom want …
Can offer support to India’s claim for UNSC seat India’s ambitions for a seat in the United Nations Security Council could well decide it approach to a binding climate agreement. The vulnerable developing countries are considering the idea of offering New Delhi support for its Security Council claim in return …
As officials meet at the 17th UN Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa, the world continues to heat up. The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced that they expect 2011 to be the warmest La Niña year since record keeping began in 1850. The opposite of El Nino, a …
The world shipping industry could accept a global levy on carbon emissions from merchant ships under a deal that would also channel proceeds to poor countries, according to an announcement at the UN climate talks on Tuesday. Maritime transport accounts for roughly three percent of world emissions of greenhouse gases. …
Canada’s failure to deny reports that it is about to ditch the Kyoto Protocol is “setting a bad example” to other developed nations as global climate change talks enter their third day, China’s official news agency said on Wednesday. Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday that Kyoto was …
Coming in the backdrop of a worsening sovereign debt crisis in Europe and a political standoff in the US over debt and taxes, the Durban global conference on climate change does not inspire much hope, with top leaders, including US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, staying away. …
Betwa Sharma in Durban: For 16-year-old Vineeth Udaya Kumar, from Lakshadweep, the stalemate in the UN climate talks is a sign that individuals need to come up with innovative ways to help arrest greenhouse gases so that the earth’s temperature does not rise above 2 degrees Celsius. Kumar suggests that …
How many Indians make up one American? 11. One American currently emits 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year from the burning of fossil fuel, as compared on one Indian, who emits 1.5 tonnes. The problem at hand is that these emissions are needed for economic growth. And the world …
Qatar, the world’s biggest per capita emitter of carbon dioxide, will host the 2012 round of UN talks tasked with beating back the mounting threat of global warming, the UN’s top climate official said Tuesday. ‘The COP18 will be hosted next year in Qatar,’ Christina Figueres, executive secretary of the …
NEW DELHI: India will work closely with BASIC group and other like-minded countries at Durban climate talks to ensure that its three agenda issues - equity, intellectual property on green technologies and unilateral trade barriers - become central to the UN climate negotiations after having fallen off the talks table …
This report by Wolfgang Sterk, Christof Arens, Florian Mersmann, Hanna Wang-Helmreich and Timon Wehnert analyses the international climate negotiations at the UN climate conference in Durban in December 2011. The conference revolved around two key sets of issues: What will be the overarching long-term framework of international climate policy and …
India Inc is keeping fingers crossed as the first two days of parleys at the ongoing Durban climate summit are pointing at an enduring logjam. The debate in the South African city has hit a roadblock, as Canada made it clear that it would not agree to a second commitment …
New Delhi With only 30 members, India's delegation to the Durban climate talks is the smallest among all key negotiating nations. China is taking a 150-strong delegation while Australia has 40-plus. Further, several key climate negotiators like Chandrashekhar Dasgupta and Prodipto Ghosh are absent in the delegation led by environment …
The BASIC appears to have finally shed its reticence. For the first time, the four advanced developing countries – India, China Brazil and South Africa — put out their positions at the formal opening session of the negotiations at Durban. For India, which put in an official proposal for the …
Even before the annual UN climate change negotiations are formally kicked off in Durban, India is warding off pressure to commit to legally binding CO2 emission cuts. Developed countries are threatening to abandon the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which imposes emission reduction obligations on 37 industrialised countries, if all major emitters …
New Delhi: India, Brazil and China took yet another step in firming their alliance on the climate front with the three BASIC countries together demanding that the principle of ‘historical emissions’ be placed firmly on the Durban agenda for possible decisions. The US, on the other hand, took another step …
New Delhi With climate talks having begun in Durban, both the industry and climate experts are pessimistic and don’t expect any concrete decision emanating from it. However, the Indian government’s hardline is also being perceived as a negotiating tactic that might help bridge the gap between the developing and the …
The 17th Conference of Parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is being held in Durban, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, 2011. Urgent action is required to arrest the inexorable rise in global CO2 emissions. What are the issues before this important international …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for formulating a legally binding agreement on specific greenhouse gas emission cuts in the Durban summit on climate change. The prime minister made the appeal when the visiting Chair of the standing committee on environmental affairs of Danish parliament Steen Gade paid a courtesy …
DURBAN: South African President Jacob Zuma has called on the representatives and delegates at UN-sponsored climate meet here to "look beyond national interests" and work towards an outcome that is "balanced, fair and credible" and reaffirm the Kyoto Protocol. "For most people in the developing countries and Africa, climate change …
