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 …
Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate meeting, which brought together 115 world leaders to deliberate on the perils facing the world from growing emissions, is near its bitter end. The conference has ended with meaningless commitments
Discussions Go On For Extra Day As World Leaders Try To Salvage Summit Copenhagen: World leaders went into an extra night of discussions in a bid to hammer out a deal on climate change, prompting PM Manmohan Singh to delay his departure and huddle into discussions with US President Barack …
Two years of preparations. Two weeks of hectic negotiations. Presence of more than 110 high-profile heads of states. Nothing helped. The deal to save the world from catastrophic effects of climate change remains as elusive as ever. But no one, least of all host Denmark, wants to admit that the …
Urmi A Goswami COPENHAGEN HEADS of state of key countries worked into the wee hours of Friday morning while negotiators from 26 countries continued till daybreak in their attempts to put together a political declaration for the heads of states and governments to adopt on Friday. The momentum induced by …
US president addresses the UNFCCC Climate summit on 18th Dec 2009 i.e., on the final day of the talks. He believes that it's time for the nations and people of the world to come together behind a common purpose. And must choose action over inaction; the future over the past …
I will refrain from lamenting the total mismanagement of COP 15 and the untold daily misery and shoddy treatment that visitors, including certain Parties (UN parlance for participating governments), had to put up with in gaining entry to the conference. I will refrain from detailing the brutal stifling of the …
Copenhagen: On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the penultimate round of the biggest ever geopolitical game of the decade, being played out at Copenhagen, went to the developing countries. The attempt by the Danish PM to hijack the negotiations by presenting the West
With barely 12 hours left to hammer out a consensus that has eluded the world for over two years now, the first signs of thaw were visible at the climate change conference late today. After a formal commitment from the host country that no secret document was under works and …
Copenhagen Climate Summit 18 December, 2009 - Addressing the UN climate change conference at Copenhagen yesterday afternoon, agriculture minister, Lyonpo (Dr) Pema Gyamtsho, said the battles against climate change must be fought and won on individual turfs by every nation.
Copenhagen: A top Chinese diplomat warned developed countries on Tuesday against using climate change as an excuse to set up trade barriers, potentially raising a new hurdle to reaching a deal at UN-led climate negotiations. Yu Qingtai, China
New Delhi: A day before PM Manmohan Singh sets off for Copenhagen, India said a political agreement being worked out there should not change the goalposts regarding the Bali Action Plan (BAP). Virtually giving up hope for any comprehensive outcome, India is now looking beyond Copenhagen to the 2010 conference …
Every time a Boeing 747 roars off the runway, the energy it needs for the two-minute lift off can run 2.4 million lawn mowers for 20 minutes. Considering that more than 40 aircraft take off every minute around the globe, the colossal amount of fossil fuel burned and the resulting …
Copenhagen:Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natural landscapes like peat soils, swamps and fields that play a crucial role in curbing climate change. Environmental groups have long advocated such a compensation program. Rain forest destruction, which …
Cops Detain 240 Protesters Who Try To Storm Venue Copenhagen: As climate change negotiations heat up at the Copenhagen summit, civil society groups, delegates and indigenous representatives surely felt the heat. While hundreds of representatives gathered outside the climate change conference hall on Wednesday, to protest the government inaction to …
New Delhi: Despite doubling of the public transport fleet between 2000 and 2002, pollution levels in Delhi came down drastically due to the rapid conversion of such vehicles to CNG (compressed natural gas). This is how Indraprastha Gas Ltd, the city
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
