India’s Third National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was submitted on December 9, 2023. The report contains information on India’s greenhouse gas emissions, its vulnerability to climate change, and the measures it is taking to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. …
The WMO said data from the first 10 months of the year suggested temperatures over land and sea would tick in at their highest level ever measured this year, after already reaching record highs in 2014. The year 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest on record, the UN’s …
India’s strategy at the Paris Climate Change summit will be to work with emerging economies and press the developed world to concede that responsibility for cutting carbon emissions after 2020 cannot be shared equally by rich and poor nations. Two major issues that New Delhi will focus on at the …
The government of Ethiopia has been granted $50 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for climate-resilience projects, the Ministry of Forestry, Environment and Climate Change said here Tuesday. The Deputy Minister, Kare Chawicha, said Ethiopia will receive the money after independent GCF experts decided on the amount’s ceiling. Ethiopia …
Climate change poses a severe threat to Africa, the world’s most vulnerable region. But it also offers a huge opportunity. A new paper from the African Development Bank explains how the COP21 climate talks in Paris in December can help Africa deal with the threat and seize the opportunity.
Developed countries wanted to pre-decide the contours of the Paris climate change agreement, which would have hurt India's interests India defended climate change red-lines at G20 meeting At a recently concluded talks of G20 countries, India prevented an attempt to pre-decide the contours of the Paris climate change agreement outside …
What will happen at the Paris climate change conference of parties? This December, as leaders gather at the 21st annual congregation to resolve the global crisis, the world has changed somewhat. There is a growing acceptance verging on unanimity that climate is changing, but it is the poor who are …
In the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Paris, the latest information on the level and growth of CO2 emissions, their source and geographic distribution will be essential to lay the foundation for a global agreement. This annual publication covers more than 140 countries and regions and covers: estimates …
The Summary for Policymakers (SPM) identifies good practice policies, initiatives and actions that could be scaled up and replicated by Parties to realize significant mitigation potential in the pre-2020 period. The SPM focuses on the thematic areas and reflects the outcomes of the associated technical expert meetings that occur under …
Emphasizing on the need to develop affordable renewable energy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the G-20 nations to increase the research and development activities to fulfil the global aspiration for clean energy. Prime Minister Modi, who was speaking at the G20 Working Lunch on development and climate change, …
Leaders of the world’s leading economies said on Monday that the Paris agreement on climate change should be “fair, balanced, ambitious, durable and dynamic”. In what was the toughest paragraph to be negotiated in the G-20 summit communique this year, leaders of the world’s leading economies said on Monday that …
Leaders of the world’s top economies on Monday vowed to seek a deal to curb climate change at an upcoming UN conference in Paris, according to a draft statement drawn up in tough, all-night talks. Negotiators at a Group of 20 summit in Turkey haggled into the early hours as …
The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) launched a new briefing paper, providing a critical overview of the problem of current carbon accounting rules in the land use and forests sector, under the acronym LULUCF. These are creating loopholes for real emission cuts and will undermine any new climate agreement. The paper …
Homes belonging to more than half a billion people could be submerged by rising sea levels if the current rate of global warming continues, scientists have said. A 2C increase in the Earth's temperature would result in houses occupied by 130 millon people being left underwater by rising sea levels, …
India expects the upcoming Paris conference to reach an accord that does not hold all countries "equally" accountable for the present state of climate change and seeks more steps for tackling it from those nations that are responsible for greater emissions. As it heads into the crucial UN Climate Change …
The collective action plans of more than 140 major businesses could deliver two thirds of the carbon reductions need to limit global warming to two degrees, according to new analysis from PWC. The consultancy firm has released its assessment of nine action plans that have been created for nine different …
The sharp rise was on account of double-digit growth in demand for coal, as power consumption surged India's energy emission growth at 8.2%, highest globally: PwC Buoyed by strong economic activity, India's energy emission growth was highest in the world at 8.2 per cent last year, says a report. According …
A new website - http://www.ncdmaindia.gov.in has been launched by the National Clean Development Mechanism Authority (NCDMA) in the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The new website, launched last Friday, will capture the entire life cycle of CDM Projects. With step, the Ministry has taken another step in applying …
Beyond the emissions pledges made by different countries, a cornerstone for ensuring the effectiveness of the 2015 international climate change agreement will be the mechanisms in place to hold states to account for how they live up to their commitments. While legal form has been viewed as an important indicator …
Ahead of the crucial climate change summit in Paris, India and Africa on Thursday urged developed nations to undertake "ambitious" mitigation measures to reduce carbon emissions and "honour" their commitment of providing financial resources and technology to developing countries. "Excess of few cannot become the burden of many", asserted Prime …
While the earlier plan was to implement BS-V by 2020 and BS-VI by 2024, the Petroleum Ministry sought to skip BS-V and directly implement BS-VI standards by 2020 Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday confirmed that his Ministry still aimed to implement introduction of the cleaner Bharat …
