The media outlet TV2 Lorry reports that the citizen representation of the municipality of Copenhagen has approved phasing out all diesel buses in the city before the end of 2025, starting with the budget of 2019. Two routes in the city have been tested for two years in cooperation with …
By committing a 20% reduction in emission intensity while the west is only making negligible effort and aligning itself with China when our emissions are closer to Africa
When the debate on the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference took place in the Rajya Sabha, the Opposition charged the government with having slid back from the earlier commitment made to Parliament, and said that the country
In a new CEPS Commentary on the implications of the Copenhagen Accord on the EU, the authors are wondering why the outcome is seen so differently in the EU and the US and find very different expectations and perspectives on both sides of the Atlantic. This Commentary argues that the …
Obama has cut the legs out from under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in effect declaring that the US will do what it wants, but will not get further entangled in messy UN climate processes in 2010, says Jeffrey D Sachs TWO years of climate change negotiations have …
RAHUL BAJAJ| CHAIRMAN, BAJAJ AUTO We must work towards sustainable development AS JAIRAM RAMESH MENTIONED AT HIS press conference, he did not go to Copenhagen with the mandate to save the world or humanity. His mandate was to defend India
The two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen (7-18 December 2009) have been full of twists and turns. The outcome of the first phase, when heads of delegations and Ministers had the leadership, is a set of draft decisions, heavily bracketed, and not recognized by all Parties
NEW DELHI: The Copenhagen Accord was a dilution of the Kyoto Protocol as the former had no major reference to principles of equity and environmental justice, Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of International Studies faculty member Professor Meeta Mehra has said here. No specific targets She was speaking at an interdisciplinary …
Bangladesh will continue its efforts to attain an international legally binding treaty by 2010 to cut carbon emissions which will help limit global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, state minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday. He said the proposed $ 30 …
Bangladesh as a most vulnerable country will seek 15 percent of the US$ 30 billion fund agreed at the Copenhagen climate conference to tackle the adverse impact of the changing climate."This money is not enough to enhance our adaptation capability
Text of the debate on outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Rajya Sabha on 22.12.09. Jairam Ramesh said that Copenhagen accord was not legally binding. But Arun Jaitley said that government has been "outwitted" in drafting of this accord. This document presents the text of the statement by the …
Tribune News Service New Delhi, December 21 The CPM Politburo today slammed the Copenhagen climate conference for ending without clinching a legally binding agreement for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Without a treaty committing the industrialised countries to deep emission cuts, the lives of hundreds of millions, …
New Delhi: Even though the final document in Copenhagen contained no legally binding commitment by anybody, US officials are claiming the right to unilaterally verify or review what India and other countries are doing towards emission goals. Under pressure to defend the deal, White House senior adviser David Axelrod told …
Having stitched together a climate deal at Copenhagen with a select group of countries, the government will have to do some explaining in Parliament on Tuesday on some provisions in the Copenhagen Accord, especially those relating to international verification of voluntary action taken by India on climate change. The government …
Fresh from the world climate change talks which reached a last-minute non-binding deal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will make a statement in the Rajya Sabha on Monday where he is expected to say that India
Inept and dubious are the only words that come to mind in describing the negotiations that have led to India endorsing the Copenhagen Accord. India chose to identify itself with the US, China, Brazil, South Africa
With no signs of a possible deal at the Climate Summit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that future negotiations on tackling the menace should be based on equitable burden sharing as enshrined in Kyoto Protocol and Bali mandate. Addressing the crucial final day of the summit, …
