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.
Cutting emissions drastically is neither easy nor cheap, so the developed world is looking for scapegoats. As you read this, a deal is possibly being signed at Copenhagen to save the world from climate change. But be very clear. The agreement which the world has waited for is not going …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 18, 2009, 0:49 IST With last-ditch efforts on to save the Copenhagen talks on climate change from failure, the Danish Presidency today said there would be no Danish draft-II. The two-track process of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and long-term cooperation agreement (LCA) would form …
STEPHEN COLLINSON Amid bickering and frustration in Copenhagen, hopes for progress towards a deal appeared to be hanging in the balance US President Barack Obama will plunge into the thick of the Copenhagen summit on Friday, arguing he has transformed US global warming policy and seeking verification guarantees in any …
Hosts Denmark dropped plans on Thursday to propose new draft texts to try to break deadlock at a UN climate summit in Copenhagen after opposition from many developing nations. Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said negotiators at the 193nation meeting would consider existing UN texts presented to the meeting …
`Climate change cannot be addressed by perpetuating the poverty of the developing countries,' Dr Manmohan Singh said in a departure statement released by his office India cannot accept a global warming treaty that would stall its drive to lift millions out of poverty, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said as he …
Amidst frenetic activity to stitch up a face-saving deal in the final hours, the ubiquitous Danish draft made a reappearance at the climate change conference on Wednesday, inviting a fresh round of vociferous protests from the developing countries, with China describing it as an
But we are eternally hopeful, would look forward to post-summit negotiations, says Nirupama Rao. Anticipating only a political statement at the end of the Conference of Parties (COP) meeting on climate change in Copenhagen, India on Wednesday said such an outcome would not measure up to its expectations.
Priscilla Jebaraj COPENHAGEN: On a day of long speeches in the plenary and loud protests outside, the Danish president of the UN climate talks here told developing countries that progress on the Kyoto Protocol is unlikely here. There may not be any post-2012 commitment of emission cuts by rich nations …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 17, 2009, 0:40 IST The Danish chair of the UN talks on climate change, Connie Hedegaard, today stepped down and was replaced by Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen. Hedegaard
MICHAEL CASEY COPENHAGEN Most of the leaders were flying either on commercial airlines or government-owned jets and Sweden was one of the few to announce plans to offset those aviation emissions -- something it does routinely If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in …
HARDEV SANOTRA The UN climate talks in Copenhagen ran into rough weather as India, China and the G-77 nations took strong exception to a second "Danish text" that which emerged Wednesday, saying they will not allow a "parachuted document" to decide the negoti ations on climate change. Two days before …
RASHME SEHGAL Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for Copenhagen on Thursday determined to renew India's demand for an "equitable and balanced" agreement on climate change even as the meet has been split wide open with increasing acrimony between developing and developed nations. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's declaration made on …
The chief of the United Nations has conceded that a deal in Copenhagen on climate change might not include promised financial aid for developing countries, an admission that will infuriate poorer nations and potentially scupper a broad-based agreement. Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the UN, told the Financial Times in an …
Speech of Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of state (independent charge) for Environment & Forests, at the high-level segment of the UN climate conference, Copenhagen.
Rifts deepened between rich and poor countries at the UN's Copenhagen climate conference yesterday as world leaders prepared to converge on the Danish capital in a bid to break the deadlock. Several leaders, including Angela Merkel of Germany and Gordon Brown of Britain, voiced doubt over the chances of reaching …
This UN report leaked from the Copenhagen climate talks suggests that global temperature will rise by an average of 3 degree celsius even if all the emission cuts offered so far are implemented. Is based on the most recent emission scenarios presented in the IEA 2009 World Energy Outlook and …
