The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
CCS is often viewed to be a bridging technology into a future in which renewable energy sources prevail and energy is used as efficiently as possible. Before this future can be reached, emissions from coal-fired power plants and other fossil fuel sources have to be reduced to the greatest extent …
As bw goes to press, the last day of the copenhagen climate summit still has some way to go. However, there is little hope for a treaty. Even the gathering of about 110 heads of government is not expected to break up the scrum in which their climate negotiators have …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 18, 2009, 0:58 IST With last-ditch efforts to save the Copenhagen talks on climate change from failure in full swing, the Danish presidency made it clear today that there would be no Danish draft-II and that the two-track process of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol …
The real value of the climate process is its impact on the ideas on what it means to be a good global citizen I have just returned after performing at the climate circus in Copenhagen. Like all sensible columnists, I will reserve my remarks on why the outcome was entirely …
This discussion paper presents the challenge of decarbonising entire economies of South Africa which is fossil-fuel-based and emission-intensive. Any mitigation strategy thus has to be carefully designed. The energy sector is a vital part of the economy and at the same time contributes most to South Africa
This discussion paper presents the challenge of decarbonising entire economies of South Africa which is fossil-fuel-based and emission-intensive. Any mitigation strategy thus has to be carefully designed. The energy sector is a vital part of the economy and at the same time contributes most to South Africa
Priscilla Jebaraj COPENHAGEN: It was a dramatic opening to the second week of the United Nations climate change talks here on Monday, with African nations forcing a half-day suspension in protest against efforts by rich countries to
The crucial climate talks were suspended for a while today, after India and other emerging nations walked out protesting that the rich countries were making attempts to shirk responsibility in tackling global warming. The talks were resumed after the BASIC bloc, comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China, succeeded in …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to exchange views on the climate change conference at Copenhagen. During their 10-minute telephonic conference, the leaders were said to have discussed ways of taking the climate summit forward. They agreed that the two …
Amitabh Sinha : In the warm-up here, the maximum buzz and heat has been around two contrasting drafts, one proposed by Denmark and the other by four large developing countries, including India, that have been doing the rounds to be considered as the possible outlines for the agreement coming out …
The European Union withdrew an offer to increase its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target on Monday because it said similar offers made by many nations in the past month were inadequate to prevent significant climate change. The tough stance is intended to spur other governments into increasing their proposed cuts …
This book builds on related experience of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre in the areas of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, Access and Benefit-Sharing under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and …
India and China are on the same page as far as negotiations are concerned but not on the emissions front, said Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh. He was speaking on the sidelines of the CII Sutainability Summit held here today. The minister made this statement a day ahead of …
To save biodiversity, on-the-ground agencies need to set the conservation research agenda, not distant academics and non-governmental organizations, argue Robert J. Smith and colleagues.
