In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
New Delhi: The high-octane Copenhagen climate talks may have ended but global negotiations are going to get into a greater frenzy in 2010. To be on top of the game, the BASIC four countries
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol is a dual purpose mechanism aiming to reduce carbon emissions and promote sustainable development. However the CDM, as a market mechanism, seems incapable of fulfilling this latter purpose. Bui lding on the dichotomy between market liberalism and sustainable development as identified …
Many environmentalists believe ecotourism has the potential to generate net benefits for people and nature. For more than two decades, the Brazilian Sea Turtle Conservation Program (TAMAR) has provided jobs and income through ecotourism in Praia do Forte, Brazil, in exchange for reduced harvesting of sea turtles. In this article …
How does the population of inegalitarian countries react to their governments’ initiatives to fight poverty and reduce inequality? Numerous studies published recently assume that the level of income inequality determines the level of popular support for redistribution. The most influential theoretical framework in this research agenda has been proposed by …
Brasilia: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law on Tuesday requiring that Brazil cut greenhouse gas emissions by 39% by 2020, meeting a commitment made at the Copenhagen climate change summit. Brazil announced at the summit a
As bw goes to press, the last day of the copenhagen climate summit still has some way to go. However, there is little hope for a treaty. Even the gathering of about 110 heads of government is not expected to break up the scrum in which their climate negotiators have …
As the climate change jamboree kicked off on December 7, members of an Indian NGO were stopped from entering Bella Centre in Copenhagen, the venue of the UN summit that is currently the cynosure of the world. Reason: they were wearing outer shirts with a picture of Mahatma Gandhi and …
Washington: Keen to hammer out a successful deal at the Copenhagen climate change summit, US President Barack Obama on Thursday reached out to his Brazilian counterpart Lula Da Silva and Tillman Thomas PM of Grenada to discuss the issue with the two leaders.
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 18, 2009, 0:58 IST With last-ditch efforts to save the Copenhagen talks on climate change from failure in full swing, the Danish presidency made it clear today that there would be no Danish draft-II and that the two-track process of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol …
The real value of the climate process is its impact on the ideas on what it means to be a good global citizen I have just returned after performing at the climate circus in Copenhagen. Like all sensible columnists, I will reserve my remarks on why the outcome was entirely …
The fifth Climate Change Performance Index released by Germanwatch and Climate Action Network at Copenhagen. This is a comparison of the 57 industrialised countries and emerging economies. See Also: Report: S&P;/IFCI Carbon Efficient Index. www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293414 Report: Global Peatland CO2 picture. www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/290548 Report: U.S. proposed carbon tariffs www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/293198 Report: Low carbon …
Rifts deepened between rich and poor countries at the UN's Copenhagen climate conference yesterday as world leaders prepared to converge on the Danish capital in a bid to break the deadlock. Several leaders, including Angela Merkel of Germany and Gordon Brown of Britain, voiced doubt over the chances of reaching …
The crucial climate talks were suspended for a while today, after India and other emerging nations walked out protesting that the rich countries were making attempts to shirk responsibility in tackling global warming. The talks were resumed after the BASIC bloc, comprising Brazil, South Africa, India and China, succeeded in …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to exchange views on the climate change conference at Copenhagen. During their 10-minute telephonic conference, the leaders were said to have discussed ways of taking the climate summit forward. They agreed that the two …
: China, India and Brazil went into a huddle on Thursday to forge a joint strategy at the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen as pressure mounted on them to accept newer carbon emission reduction targets. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao separately called up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Brazilian …
