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.
When Barack Obama, US president, decided late last week to attend the final stages of the fortnight-long United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, which begins on Monday, the gasp of relief from delegates heading to the Danish capital was almost audible. Mr Obama
The world is "within closing distance" of agreeing cuts in greenhouse gases that would satisfy scientific demands, according to a new analysis. Officials from the governments of more than 190 countries arrived at the talks yesterday with the aim of forging a new global deal on climate change. They will …
HARDEV SANTORA HARDEV SANTORA COPENHAGEN As over 15,000 visitors descend on the city of 5.2 million to talk climate over the next 12 days and more than 100 heads of state or government expected to visit towards the end, the expectations have been watered down for a binding treaty on …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The draft proposal prepared by the host nation Denmark for the climate change summit starting on Monday removes the distinction between the developed and the developing countries and will be disastrous for India and other developing countries. Developing countries have maintained that given the fact that …
So far the effort to tackle global warming has achieved little. Copenhagen offers the chance to do better, says Emma Duncan (interviewed here) THE mountain bark beetle is a familiar pest in the forests of British Columbia. Its population rises and falls unpredictably, destroying clumps of pinewood as it peaks …
Rich and poor countries have to give ground to get a deal in Copenhagen; then they must focus on setting a carbon price AT A time when they are not short of pressing problems to deal with, the presence of 100-odd world leaders at the two-week meeting that starts in …
Book cover of 'The Economics and Politics of Climate Change' edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron HepburnThe Economics and Politics of Climate Change Edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn Oxford University Press
This file photo shows the nuclear power station in Dampierre-en-Burly. AFPA group of Bangalore students is all set to educate world leaders gathering in Copenhagen for the Dec 7-18 climate change summit through a play on threats and challenges to environment worldwide. Life and Death, a play starkly depicting of …
Denmark, the host country and chair for the climate talks to begin at Copenhagen on December 7, has shared a draft of a proposed final political statement with select countries that would completely undermine the positions of India and other developing countries. TOI accessed details of the draft, which follows …
When US climate change negotiators arrive in Copenhagen next week, they will find themselves in something of a Catch-22 situation. How can they sign up to an international agreement setting binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions without a clear mandate from the US Congress? But how can Congress agree …
In negotiating the new climate change protocol in Copenhagen this month, we must not lose sight of our objective: to reduce the rate of annual global emissions so that we stay below the threshold of 450 parts per million for the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Even that …
Months before the Kyoto protocol was signed in 1997, it was killed by the US Senate. A motion sponsored by senators from the mining and farm states of West Virginia and Nebraska ruled out ratification of the pact unless developing countries were brought into the system. US Congress has never …
The position of the White House is arguably the most difficult of any government in the talks. Barack Obama, US president, has made clear that he is in favour of an international framework on climate change, in which the US would take on stiff targets for cutting emissions alongside other …
Two years of tense negotiations on climate change are coming to an end next week in Copenhagen. Twelve years after similar talks produced the flawed 1997 Kyoto protocol, and two decades after international efforts to tackle climate change started, governments are at last preparing to draw up a global framework …
In Nature India, Pew's Namrata Patodia explains why India should be part of a global climate deal. for full text: http://www.nature.com/nindia/ 2009/091203/full/nindia.2009.348.html
