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 …
A peak in global energy-related emissions could be achieved as early as 2020 and at no net economic cost says International Energy Agency in this new report . The world is moving towards a crucial climate change meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). The negotiations there will be based …
India is playing a proactive role in coordinating the developing world ahead of United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris in December, and has set an example for the developed world by taking pre-2020 emission reduction actions, the government said on Monday. "We want Paris to succeed in mitigating …
Group of Seven leaders agreed on Monday to wean their economies off carbon fuels and supported a global goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of agreeing their own immediate binding targets. In a communique issued after their two-day summit in Bavaria, the G7 leaders said they …
France is working on minimising carbon footprint that would be generated during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), which the European nation will host later this year in Paris. "Very large number of people will gather for the event from around the world... We are trying to ensure that the …
Adaptation responses are needed to address the existing levels of climate variability and to prepare for future climate impacts. There is wide agreement that adaptation is an important issue and would benefit from being enhanced through more effective action and better planning. The prominence of adaptation in the UNFCCC negotiations …
This paper identifies four essential principles that would enable the transparency system to build trust in collective action. Together, universality and self-differentiation set the basis for constructing a system in which all countries report on information, drawing from a menu of reporting options that allows them to do so in …
What countries will do at the national level is less important than the nature and scope of international cooperation MukulSanwal[1] The just concluded tenth round of preparatory meetings at Bonn, an 83 page compilation document yet to become a negotiation text, 193 countries seeking to secure their national interest and …
India’s pivotal role: speaking for the late developers Mukul Sanwal[1] Since 1992 the key issue dividing countries in global environmental negotiations has been ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’and ‘climate justice’ can operationalize that principle to the satisfaction of all countries in a universal regime. As the political consensus moves away from …
Mukul Sanwal[1] The Paris Agreement shifts the global concern away from the sole focus of the Climate Convention on emissions reductions, which is really the symptom of the problem, to dealing with its causes, that is, human activities inthe urban transition.The Purpose of the Agreement, or the new global climate …
@sunitanar The much-awaited Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted by all members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Saturday. The Agreement will now be open for ratification by each member nation from April 2016 onwards. Some highlights from the draft text: Achievements for developing …
Tonight, we begin a special series of NDTV Dialogues on the biggest challenge facing us globally: Climate Change. What is the world we will leave to our future generations will be discussed when global leaders meet in a landmark summit in Paris. Joining me on the show, Piyush Goyal, Minister …
The International Conference in Paris that is going to begin on 30th december aims at preventing the destruction caused due to natural calamities all over the world.
China has been subject to floods, droughts and heatwaves for millennia. However, in recent decades climate risks have been changing rapidly for different groups of people and sectors – posing a significant challenge for China’s policy makers. In this short video we describe how China has been working to understand …
The World is standing at a crossroad where if we do not put a lid on the emission of greenhouse gases, in a few decades, we shall be heading towards an environmental disaster. With the climate change conference in Paris underway, will it be possible for various world leaders to …
The Big Picture - Paris Climate Accord Guests: Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, CSE ; Soma Banerjee Principal, Energy & Infrastructure, CII ; Nitin Desai, Former Deputy Secretary General, UN ; Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Consulting Editor, The Business Standard.
Desh Deshantar - Agreement on battling Climate Change in COP21: What does it entail? Guests: Om Thanvi, Former Editor, Jansatta ; Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of CSE ; M C Mehta, Advocate, Supreme Court ; Sopan Joshi, Researcher and Journalist, Gandhi Peace Foundation.
Chandra Bhushan is currently the Deputy Director General of CSE. He is a distinguished expert in the field of natural resource management, environmental geo-politics and industrial pollution.
