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 …
DURBAN: All nations have agreed to adopt a new global pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions, at the UN climate change talks in Durban on Sunday. Major polluters from developed as well as developing countries will undertake an emission cut. The Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, crafted after three days …
Sunita Narain in Durban The Durban Conference on Climate Change finally ended on the wee hours of Saturday after running for over 24 hours beyond schedule. By Friday, the two-week meeting being held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, had broken down into the ministerial-level huddles - small groups …
At Durban Climate Conference, the world has agreed to urgent action, but now it is critical that this action to reduce emissions must be based on equity says Centre for Science and Environment. The Durban Conference is a turning point in the climate change negotiations as even though developing countries …
DURBAN: Major polluters in the ongoing climate talks here debated one more major issue while South African International Relations Minister and Cop- 17 President Maite Nkoana-Mashabane called them to an informal meeting to resolve it. The parties are now scuffling on the issue on the comprehensive legally binding deal to …
With time running out, minister of environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan admits the Durban climate talks have reached a deadlock and does see too much forward movement taking place in the next 24 hours. “My level of optimism has been tempered. I have constantly been engaged at various levels and …
Leaders who wait for further evidence about the perils of greenhouse gases are flirting with escapism, the head of the UN’s Nobel-winning climate scientists says. “You cannot possibly keep waiting forever for new evidence of global warming to act,” Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), …
With Durban talks unlikely to arrive at any binding deal on climate change, efforts are on to translate the Green Climate Fund (GCF) into a reality. The GCF is a $100 billion annual fund to be dispersed annually to help poor nations fight the effect of climate change from 2020. …
Politics of climate negotiation is expected to reach a crescendo tomorrow when the Durban talks enter the last leg of deliberations. With only one day to go and no major decision surfacing from almost two-week long parleys, uncertainty is looming large over the outcome of the talks. Belying initial hopes, …
Durban: Small island states, which have a powerful moral presence in the climate talks, displayed the political inclinations towards the EU when they tried to block India’s demand that the UN review whether rich nations are meeting their commitments. The review would require the UN to assess if the developed …
Durban: India fought hard on Wednesday to ensure that the UN talks do not set a global target to cut emissions by a fixed figure under a pre-ordained timeframe. The issue referred to in the negotiations’ jargon as ‘peaking’ has reared its head at various occasions over the past few …
The Canadian government gave Total SA approval on Thursday to start construction on its C$9 billion ($8.9 billion) Joslyn North oil sands project in Alberta, marking the fifth mining development in the vast crude deposit. Total, the French oil major, and its Canadian, U.S. and Japanese partners aim to start …
The United States denied on Thursday it was trying to delay a new global climate deal until 2020, saying it supported an EU proposal that aims to chart a path to a more ambitious pact to fight climate change. Delegates from almost 200 countries have until Friday to decide whether …
Support grew on Thursday for an EU plan to agree a global climate change pact with binding targets by 2015, after poor nations vulnerable to climate change forged alliances with developed countries. The European Union said it was encouraged its "road map" to legally binding commitments by 2015 to cut …
DURBAN, South Africa : Lack of consensus on Kyoto Protocol, the world's lone deal to cut greenhouse gas emission, frustrates Bangladesh although adaptation is the prime concern for it and other vulnerable countries. Minister for Environment and Forest Dr Hasan Mahmud MP said this at a press briefing on the …
Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change. Rich countries have pledged up to $100 billion a year by 2020 to aid poor states …
New Delhi India has said it is open to negotiate on mitigation issues at the Durban climate talks but said developed countries have to show clear commitment to reduce their carbon footprints. The Indian response makes the chances of the global ministerial level talks on climate change yielding clear solutions …
In order to sharpen their negotiating clout during the high-level segment of COP17, leaders of the BASIC countries came together to declare that the Durban accord must carry a clear and ratifiable decision on the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. The four BASIC ministers, South Africa’s minister for …
Union Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday made it clear at the global climate change meet at Durban, South Africa, that India would not compromise on the principles of equity and historical responsibility in addressing the issue of climate change. Jayanthi NatarajanIndia and China are being targeted for their high …
The BASIC quartet—Brazil, South Africa, India and China—came together scorching all rumours that China had decided to break ranks when it made its “offer” of accepting a legally binding agreement. On Tuesday, ministers from the four countries stressed on the need to consider scientific review while considering a post 2020 …
Declaring that India has come to the climate conference with an “open mind”, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Tuesday said the developed countries’ projection of legally binding agreement being a “panacea” for climate change was “completely off the mark”. “In these negotiations, some countries have projected the question of a …
