This report discusses how Denmark - a country whose major agricultural organizations have committed to become carbon neutral by 2050 - can achieve carbon neutral agriculture. The report’s lessons can inform not only Denmark’s agricultural future, but also that of other advanced agricultural economies.
Fidel Castro Ruz The climate summit was far from being a democratic exercise. But the struggle to prevent the terrible consequences of climate change must continue. The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would …
As the climate change jamboree kicked off on December 7, members of an Indian NGO were stopped from entering Bella Centre in Copenhagen, the venue of the UN summit that is currently the cynosure of the world. Reason: they were wearing outer shirts with a picture of Mahatma Gandhi and …
Jairam Ramesh was listening to jazz music on his iPod and staring at his laptop when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on his mobile. It was a Saturday morning, just two days before the crucial Climate Change Conference at Copenhagen was to begin and Ramesh, India's environment minister, had come …
In 2012, the movie, the earth as we know it is destroyed because of a sudden burst of solar flares that heat the planet's core, causing major shifts in tectonic plates. The result is cataclysmic tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes that wipe out most of life except for a modern fleet …
In any reasonable reckoning, the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit falls far short of what the nations of the world, particularly the industrialised countries, absolutely need to do to combat global warming. The Copenhagen Accord, the product of personal negotiations between President Obama and the political leaders of China, …
THE OUTCOME of the Copenhagen climate summit, whose closing phases were enveloped in needless drama, is an all-round disappointment. If at all it can have pleased anyone, it can only be the United States which had to be dragged to the table screaming, but was not prepared to play its …
Detailed assessment of the Copenhagen Accord in relation to the science-based demands put forward by Greenpeace in order to avoid catastrophic cimate change.
Pallavi Aiyar / December 19, 2009, 0:26 IST As rumours swooped around thick and fast about a potentially explosive, secret Danish draft, I looked around for a quiet corner in the otherwise crushingly-full Bella Centre for a quick cup of coffee. I found myself sharing a table with a pretty, …
Choosing a low-carbon path, as the government seems to be committing itself to at the negotiations, will impose huge costs on India. CLIMATE change negotiations have reached an impasse on two crucial questions. One is how the remaining carbon space will be
The focus must be on consumption and not production patterns, and reducing per capita emissions of developed countries must be the first step. The Rally of Britain in the Myherin stage, in October 2009. A study sponsored by the government of the United Kingdom says that over 40 per cent …
It has been a bumpy ride, with developed countries failing to make definite commitments and India hinting at a shift of stance. THE last leg of the climate change talks held in Barcelona, Spain, on November 2-6 in the run-up to the all-important 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to …
Environment and Natural Resources Minister Champika Ranawaka said at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark that South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is concerned about the adverse effects of climate change in the South Asia region and stressed that the region has made no contribution to …
World leaders are racing against the clock in an attempt to forge a deal on climate change in Copenhagen that hinges on resolving sharp differences between rich and poorer nations over emissions cuts and their monitoring. All eyes at the UN summit are on China and the US, the largest …
The three-page text suggests the level of agreement reached by the morning of the final day of the UN climate change summit is extremely weak. It says countries 'ought' to limit global warming to 2C, but does not bind them to do so. To know more click on the following …
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 …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 18, 2009, 0:58 IST Jairam RameshIt has been a prickly year for China-India ties with the Arunachal Pradesh boundary dispute poisoning bilateral rhetoric. In Copenhagen, Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai is back in vogue with the two sides holding meetings up to six times a day, according …
