The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
ADAM VAUGHAN Formal step: Cancun put pledges on emissions by rich nations into UN documentation. Cutting carbon emissions: Scores of rich countries made pledges over the last year to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 under the Copenhagen accord but they were not incorporated in the official UN process. …
It is increasingly becoming evident that the world may not be ready for a binding international climate treaty at the ongoing climate summit in Cancun, Mexico. Global attention is now shifting towards domestic policies in the major economies. Japan and South Korea plan to launch their own versions of national …
THE conference on climate change that con cluded last week at Cancun in Mexico was a success. It should be seen against the backdrop of last year's disastrous meet at Copenhagen. The near-unanimity with which the Cancun agreements were adopted is, in fact, a measure of its success. Even Bolivia, …
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has been praised for his role as a bridge-builder on contentious issues at the UN climate conference here which ended with a deal to curb global warming, including a $100 billion fund to help developing countries. The two-week long conference closed on Friday with, Cancun Agreement, …
The United Nations Climate Conference at Cancun has done well to strengthen the multilateral process and restore much-needed momentum to negotiations on one of the biggest challenges faced by all countries. The preceding summit at Copenhagen dealt a severe blow to consensus-building by allowing rich countries to dominate the proceedings …
T. Jayaraman Saving the integrity of the multilateral process in climate negotiations, with an outcome agreed to by both the global North and the South, is perhaps the most significant gain from Cancun. For several months now the oft-repeated litany was that little was expected of the climate negotiations at …
Will India give away too much at the Cancun climate summit?To many analysts and experts, the Conference of Parties (COP) 16 or the United Nations Climate Change Conference at Cancun in Mexico appears doomed even before it starts. The negotiating positions of the biggest countries have grown further apart since …
Rubenius, an alternative energy company based in the United Arab Emirates, will build a $4-billion storage facility for electricity in northern Mexico, President Felipe Calderon said on December 8.
Amitabh Sinha In the first major breakthrough to emerge at the climate change conference in Cancun, an agreement has been reached on creating a new international technology-sharing mechanism that will enable countries, especially poor and the most vulnerable ones, to have easy and cost-effective access to technologies needed to deal …
Meena Menon CANCUN: Hector Rodriguez, who runs an alternative radio station in Cancun called Reptil, decided on a novel way to protest the commercialisation of forestry. As hundreds of people marched to the venue of the United Nations Climate Change Conference on Tuesday, Mr. Rodriguez walked up to the posse …
Meena Menon Italian activists display a banner on the conservation of water, at the inauguration of the Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice in Cancun, Mexico, on Saturday. CANCUN: Very different from the Arctic temperatures at Moon Palace, where the United Nations climate change conference is under way, …
Meena Menon Chicle, or gum, is extracted, sold at 55 pesos a kg; 50 years ago, they got five kg from a tree 12 million people live in Mexico's forest areas: Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry CANCUN: Santos Eligio prepares to climb the 12-metre-tall gum tree with his rope …
Renuka Bisht In reality, Copenhagen was cold and Cancun is warm. But the case is quite contrary if we compare action at the two climate change summits. Sure, this year
Margot Roosevelt IN the scrum of 9,000 negotiators gathered in Cancun to wrangle over a global climate treaty, Ronny Jumeau has no patience for diplomatic niceties.
In the opening plenary at United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Japan tried to justify why it wanted to withdraw from the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol-currently the only international agreement that binds member countries to limiting their emissions. As is it, Indian environmentalists are not expecting any
Meena Menon 40 years ago, it was a fishing village; now it is plagued by environment problems CANCUN: Forty years ago, Cancun was a small fishing village with a few families. There were some holiday homes, but it was a thin island of lush wetland, connected to the mainland by …
Meena Menon CANCUN (MEXICO): Japan's statement on Monday that it would not inscribe new targets under a second commitment phase of the Kyoto Protocol has provoked sharp reactions from NGOs at the Cancun United Nations climate change conference here.
