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.
India is ideally positioned to grasp the opportunities offered by the Copenhagen Conference next month, says FREDDY DIAS E nvironmentalists and nature lovers worldwide have been warning that time is ticking away for planet Earth with ruthless degradation of natural resources, inadequate disposal of waste and overuse of toxic substances. …
JOHN ACHER Denmark has nominated climate and energy minister Connie Hedegaard, who is playing a leading role in UN climate talks, to become the European Union's first climate commissioner, Danish officials said on Tuesday. EU member states make nominations for commission posts, but it is up to commission President Jose …
CONNIE HEDEGAARD, the Danish minister for environment, will be president and chairwoman of the 12-day United Nations sponsored global climate treaty negotiations in Copenhagen starting December 8. Ms Hedegaard heads the team of negotiators and will need all her influence and skill to get all the participating nations to sign …
Pune Sixteen-year old Roopak Karulkar and 14-year-old Trupti Joshi from Pune are all set to participate in the much-talked-about United Nations' climate change Conference
It has been revealed that 65 heads of states and governments will be attending the most important environmental summit held in December this year in Copenhagen, Denmark. The organizers of the climate summit announced this week that leaders of most of the world
NEENA GOPAL India's climate change paradigm is shifting just days ahead of the summit in Copenhagen as it seeks to change its image from that of a deal-breaker to a deal-maker, even as delegations to the Copenhagen conference from around the world look set to go into it with much …
JOHN ACHER Sixty-five world leaders have confirmed they will attend a UN conference in Copenhagen in December that will try to clinch a new global climate deal, and many more are considering, Danish officials said on Sunday. Facing splits in the climate talks, Denmark 10 days ago formally invited the …
THERE ARE high expectations worldwide of a positive outcome at the Copenhagen summit on climate change in early December despite seemingly unsurmountable hurdles due to the position taken by the United States. President Barack Obama is believed to be in favour of joining the rest of the world in fighting …
When a meeting is billed as determining the future of humanity, few will be surprised if it fails to live up to expectations. And so it is proving with next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen: the Danish government has announced that time has run out on the possibility of …
Pakistan will focus on a comprehensive global framework at Copenhagen summit encompassing provision if financial resources and technology for triggering action to plough back the damage done to environment as only in our country case emissions are causing loss of Rs 365 billion annually. This was stated by speakers at …
Developed countries may not accept the targets for the post-2012 phase under the Kyoto Protocol and may even abandon it altogether. ALL indications are that the crucial 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December is going to …
K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: Even as the developed and developing countries indulge in nuanced negotiations over how deep the binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions should be, a bubbly young Indian delegation is set to make waves at the U.N. climate change convention beginning in Copenhagen on December 7.
The United Nations and Denmark, the host of the Copenhagen UN climate change summit, today suggested new deadlines next year for the conclusion of a binding treaty on greenhouse gas emissions. The top UN climate official said a treaty could be wrapped up by mid-2010, while Denmark said it might …
Ameria will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month. To understand why, it helps to ask a farmer. Take Bruce Wright, for example, who grows wheat and other crops on a couple of thousand acres near Bozeman, Montana. His family has …
As the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol comes to a close in 2012, the world faces another decision point at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen in December. It is clear that total world emissions of greenhouse gases need to decrease sometime during …
Two-hundred-and-fifty billion tonnes. That's the bottom line. If we are serious about avoiding dangerous climate change, 250,000 megatonnes is the maximum amount of carbon we can put into the atmosphere. Keep going at current rates and we will have used up that ration in 20 years. The challenge for delegates …
European Union leaders will lock horns on Thursday over how to pay for a global climate change agreement at a two-day summit that is expected to remove the last important obstacle to the bloc
