Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
‘We look towards India for climate action leadership: Laurence Tubiana French climate change negotiators Laurence Tubiana and Nicholas Hulot were in India interacting with cabinet ministers, including Union Environment and Forests Minister Prakash Javadekar, here on Tuesday to discuss India’s preparedness ahead of the Paris climate change summit scheduled for …
Uncertainties over finance may be taken as a tough nut to crack before signing a global climate deal in Paris, but the major developed and developing countries including India have taken an important step to remove another irritant by "informally" agreeing for five-yearly review of their collective efforts to curb …
India today said investment flows — which can have green benefits — cannot be treated as climate finance, that should ideally come from public funding or there should be a subvention for industries to adopt climate-friendly technologies. While demanding the need to curb "discrimination" against industries from major developing countries …
The G20 leaders summit in Turkey in mid-November will hold the key to the success of the Paris climate talks a fortnight later as the richer ones among these 20 big economies are then expected to clearly spell out the modalities to fulfill their promises on climate finance and technology …
AMRITSAR: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has become signatory to the 'Call to Conscience for the Climate' that was officially launched at the World Summit of Conscience held in Paris. SGPC member Kiranjot Kaur signed the declaration on behalf of jathedar of Sikh's supreme temporal seat Akal Takht during the …
Moving away from its earlier intention of submitting a comprehensive climate action plan ahead of the Paris climate meet, India is preparing to make a minimalist offer indicating a single target for slowing down the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions. Countries are in the process of submitting their respective …
CDKN has been working with a range of expert organisations to provide technical assistance to nine developing countries as they prepare their INDCs for submission to the UNFCCC by October 2015. In this paper, Chris Dodwell and Emelia Holdaway of Ricardo-AEA with Kiran Sura and Helen Picot of CDKN summarise …
PARIS: Foreign and environment ministers and other high-level officials from 45 countries are set to gather in Paris Monday seeking to re-energise climate talks mired in technical details and political squabbling. Just four months ahead of a UN conference in the French capital tasked with producing a historic climate pact, …
With the countries moving step-by-step towards their joint goal to fight impacts of climate change through individual actions, Japan on Monday submitted its post-2020 'climate action plan' to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), promising to cut 26% of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from its 2013 …
India today cautioned the developed nations against introduction of any new agenda at this "late hour" if they want to make the crucial climate change conference in Paris scheduled for later this year a "success". Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the convention should not be "rewritten" and appealed to …
On June 30, the People’s Republic of China submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the global effort for the mitigation of climate change risks. China intends to peak carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by around 2030 and lower CO2 emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 60-65 …
PARIS: Putting money on the table for pre-2020 climate adaptation projects in poor countries, may help unlock an ambitious global pact in December, a senior World Bank official said on Thursday. Commitments of cash for the coming five years would boost goodwill from poor countries and those at high climate …
PARIS: Nearly 2,000 climate scientists gathered in Paris on Tuesday, just five months before the deadline for a historic carbon-curbing pact, to remind politicians it is not too late to limit dangerous planet warming. "The world is at a critical crossroads," UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said in a message read …
SHIMLA: Shimla was among the three cities hailed for Urban-LEDS (Low Emissions Development Strategy) at a world summit on climate change held at Lyon in France on July 2. Shimla municipal corporation, along with 50 others organizations, vowed to take collective initiative towards climate change at a two-day World Summit: …
India aims to increase coal production to 1.5 billion tonnes by 2020 Coal secretary Anil Swarup says his heart is in renewable energy but his official capacity demands of him to pursue diligently the fossil fuel production target of 1.5 billion tonnes (bt) by 2020, including 1 bt by Coal …
The developing countries' bloc of Brazil, South Africa, India and China have underscored that the ambitious Paris Agreement on climate change to be adopted later this year should "fully reflect" differentiated responsibilities of developed and developing countries. Developed countries should take the lead by undertaking ambitious emission reduction targets, ministers …
PARIS: The blue, clear skies this summer in Paris hardly indicate it has an air pollution problem. But the top agenda for the Paris municipality— Marie De Paris—is dealing with tiny, respirable pollution particles or PM 2.5 that can get lodged in the lungs or enter the bloodstream of residents. …
France is also acutely conscious of the fact that the previous such move had backfired and Copenhagen meeting had ended in a failure. Global leaders and heads of states might have to assemble again this year, in Paris, just as they had done in Copenhagen six years ago, to make …
The International Energy Agency (IEA), the Paris-based energy think-tank for the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, has said coal and other fossil fuels will continue to dominate India’s energy mix even as it lauded the government’s efforts to expand green energy sources through 2022. “India’s large (and …
China, the world’s biggest polluter, will sign a joint pledge with the European Union this month to seek a United Nations agreement to tackle climate change as one of “the greatest threats facing humanity”, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will endorse the statement …
