Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Narender Kumar Vs State of Haryana & Others dated 14/05/2025. In the application, the applicant said that for developing the dumping yard on panchayat owned land in village Pirthla, district Palwal, Haryana permission was granted for cutting of 43 trees …
Environmental and weather-related disasters caused by climate change would displace more than 95.72 million people in Bangladesh by 2040, warned a study giving an alarming scenario of climate-induced internal migration. The study conducted by Unnayan Onneshan said the situation was likely to grow worse as climatic disorders exacerbate such problems. …
The last conference of the Parties that took place in Durban in 2011 has put climate negotiations at the crossroads again. The decisions taken at Cancun in 2010 supported a bottom-up approach where countries agreed to take on voluntary emission reduction commitments that were not legally binding. This, along with …
Of the nations participating in the Doha Climate Change Conference, India holds an unenviable distinction—it faces what is probably the greatest challenge to electricity access in the world. About 75 million of its 226 million households are bereft of power, the largest such demographic globally. This is a debilitating situation …
Industrialised countries countered the claims of unmet promises and lack of transparency about the promised $30 billion known as fast start finance, and argued that they had kept their commitment despite the economic downturn. Developed nations asserted their position at the climate talks in Doha, where developing countries such as …
Last year’s Durban conference marked a breakthrough in global efforts to combat climate change. The EU and India played a key role in the final negotiations that unlocked the final agreement. We found the compromise that provided the basis for launching negotiations on a new global legal framework for climate …
Doha: Developed countries — US, Japan, Australia and others — have stalled negotiations on transfer of technology from rich to the poor nations in an attempt to throw the issue out of the new global regime, which is now under the works. The talks reached acrimonious levels as the developed …
Developed countries - US, Japan, Australia and others - have stalled negotiations on transfer of technology from rich to the poor nations in an attempt to throw the issue out of the new global regime, which is now under the works. The talks reached acrimonious levels as the developed countries …
China criticized the EU and took a swipe at US President Barack Obama for their lack of ambition to address climate change and their unwillingness to take stronger emission reduction targets. China's chief negotiator at Doha Su Wei said, "The EU is not ready or willing to change the target …
Pressing on the key issue at the 12-day annual parley, poorer countries called on the EU to shore up the Kyoto Protocol. Climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty in Doha on Tuesday as developing countries and the European Union (EU) staked out rival positions on the fate of the …
The US and other developed nations took on the developing world here on the second day of the Doha round of climate talks. They demanded that all the unresolved issues be junked for good in Qatar and the world must carry on with finalizing a new global treaty — a …
This paper considers developments to date in the UNFCCC and in the REDD+ partnership and provides analysis on possible future options for REDD-plus, agriculture and land use.
Nearly 200 countries meet in Doha for annual talks, that began yesterday, on checking global warming. Here is a snapshot of what happened in Doha on Day 1, and what the domestic industry thinks about the global talks. Even as negotiators start discussions and deliberations in Doha to come up …
Forget US President Barack Obama’s statement on climate change upon his re-election, stating, “We haven’t done as much as we need to.” On the first day of the Doha round of UN climate negotiations, Washington announced that it won’t raise the commitment it has made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions …
On the first day of climate change talks here, India joined hands with China and other developing countries, including the small island states and the least developed countries (LDCs), to put rich countries on the mat for their lack of appetite to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The influential green NGOs …
A report released on the eve of climate change talks in Doha has suggested that rich countries have largely cheated the developing nations of the $30 billion funds they had committed to transfer to the poor ones between 2010 and 2012. The fund has largely been a green-wash - recycling …
Despite mounting alarm about climate change, almost 200 nations meeting in Doha from Monday are likely to pay little more than lip service to the need to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions. A likely failure to agree a meaningful extension of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding plan …
The United States resisted pledging steeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 on Monday despite calls by poor nations at the start of a U.N conference for tougher action to avert storms, droughts and rising seas. About 200 nations met for annual U.N. talks on global warming with little …
This new edition of the Global Climate Risk Index presented by Germanwatch at the UN climate summit in Doha analyses to what extent countries have been affected by extreme weather events and has taken into account the most recent available data from 2011 as well as for the period 1992-2011. …
