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 …
India wants an eight-point pledge from the US and other developed countries at Cancun before yielding to their demand that developing nations must agree to international consultation and analysis (ICA) for monitoring domestic climate actions. A strategy paper on New Delhi's stand at the conference says that India has agreed, …
On the first day of the 16th annual climate change conference that began in Cancun on Monday, it became clear that the countries had made little progress from the failed previous meet in Copenhagen, but had actually moved backwards on certain issues. The opening day of the two-week conference saw …
Meena Menon CANCUN: The opening day of the U.N. climate change conference on Monday laid great emphasis on achieving a package of decisions at the end of the 10-day deliberations.
Meena Menon CANCUN: Mexican President Felipe Calderon opened the United Nations climate change conference here on Monday with a fervent plea to all nations to set aside differences and find a mechanism to fight climate change and poverty. Nearly 200 countries and hundreds of delegates are taking part in the …
SHAUN TANDON WASHINGTON A year after US President Barack Obama worked personally to salvage the Copenhagen climate summit, a political shift leaves the United States with far less leverage while China moves ahead. US negotiators in the UNled talks in Cancun, Mexico, face the tough task of persuading China and …
Meena Menon CANCUN (MEXICO): This beach resort, swarming with tourists and sports utility vehicles and having opulent hotels and evident unsustainability, may not be the ideal place for a climate change conference but the real issues of climate change are too critical not to be debated anywhere. The United Nations …
The rich nations must invest in the R&D; of producing cheap wind and solar energies for the benefit of all and this should be taken as a big business opportunity to enhance their economies, says P P Sangal KYOTO Protocol of 1997 on climate change is expiring in 2012 and …
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16 / CMP 6) is taking place in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 Nov to 10 Dec 2010. It encompasses the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) and the 6th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto …
Mexico's Cemex, the world's No. 3 cement maker, expects $100 million in savings this year as it cuts its reliance on fossil fuels and develops projects that could allow it to sell more carbon credits, a Cemex executive said on Wednesday. Cement production generates 5 percent of global carbon dioxide …
Local landowners collectively running a small lumber yard in the pine forests of central Mexico say they are making profits from logging and cutting carbon emissions at the same time. Eleven communities share one sawmill in the town of Agua Bendita, processing planks for furniture and construction and earning enough …
Global Climate Dashboard of United States Department of Commerce's interactive Web site on climate change (www.climate.gov) depicts the rise in globally averaged surface temperature by approximately 0.7 degrees Celsius from 1900 through 2009. It is also observed that for the last 50 years, global temperature rose at an average rate …
Climate change forecast predicts rough weather ahead In the run up to the next global jamboree on climate change, in the tourism-cum-summitry town of Cancun, Mexico, the government has come out with an Indian view of global warming, based on indigenous research. The upshot of the effort is a much …
