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. …
Zambia will in November this year host a high level board meeting of the Worldwide Green Climate Fund (GCF), according to a report by ZANIS. The meeting which will take place in Livingstone and will attract over 300 delegates will make Zambia the first African country to host a GCF …
India will announce its voluntary emission reduction targets well ahead of the deadline of October 1, the Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javdekar, told Parliament on Tuesday. It was agreed in the Lima climate conference last year that all countries would submit their ‘intended nationally determined …
India is coordinating with various countries to ensure an "equitable and balanced" agreement at the forthcoming UN climate change summit in December, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. He also said the government was in the process of finalising its post-2020 Climate Action Plan to the United Nations Framework …
Government today said the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has been accredited by the Green Climate Fund as an implementing entity for undertaking climate change related projects in India. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up under the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on …
Australia plans to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Tuesday, but environmentalists said the target fell well short of what was needed to tackle global warming. Abbott said his conservative government's target was "fairly in the middle" of …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Climate Action Plan, 11/08/2015. In light of the decision of Conference of Parties held in Lima in 2014, whereby all Parties have to communicate their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) well in advance of the twenty-first session of the Conference of Parties, by 1st …
Govt 'considering' enhancing the target of 100 Gw of solar power; draft report leaves door open for international scrutiny of parliamentary procedures In a draft report prepared for the UN, the government has hedged its bets on achieving the 100 gigawatt (Gw) solar power target by 2022. It has not …
Malawi is preparing to participate at the forth-coming twenty first session of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) that will take place in Paris, France this coming December. Principal Secretary for Environment and Climate Change Management, Dr. Yanira Ntupanyama made the disclosure on Tuesday …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Green House Gas Emission, 04/08/2015. As per a report on ‘India: Greenhouse Gas Inventory-2007’, the net Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from India in 2007 with Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) were 1727.71 million tons of CO2 equivalent (eq). Out of which, …
As Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) design a post-2020 climate agreement and establish their national contributions within it, the question of progress toward existing climate finance targets has become a sticking point. While mobilizing $100 billion will not meet the climate investment challenge by …
Heads of state may not be part of concluding round of talks during the crucial Paris climate summit in December unlike the Copenhagen conference which failed to clinch a deal despite presence of almost all top political leaders there during final leg of negotiations six years ago. Though the host …
Uncertainties over finance may be taken as a tough nut to crack before signing a global climate deal in Paris, but the major developed and developing countries including India have taken an important step to remove another irritant by "informally" agreeing for five-yearly review of their collective efforts to curb …
India today said investment flows — which can have green benefits — cannot be treated as climate finance, that should ideally come from public funding or there should be a subvention for industries to adopt climate-friendly technologies. While demanding the need to curb "discrimination" against industries from major developing countries …
Victoria — Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago of 115 islands, is taking further steps to reduce its national level of greenhouse gas emissions. New measures to encourage the Seychellois population of around 90,000 people to use renewable energy in terms of electricity, as well as transportation, are starting to be …
Australians’ biggest fear in tackling climate change is that they are doing the “lifting” while other countries do the “leaning”, the former head of the United Nations agency tasked with leading the global response to climate change has said. Yvo de Boer, who headed the UN framework convention on climate …
The Government has launched The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity TEEB-India Initiative (TII) to highlight the economic consequences of the loss of biological diversity and the associated decline in ecosystem services. The Initiative focussed on three ecosystems, namely forests, inland wetlands and coastal and marine ecosystems. TII has been implemented …
Colombia, South America's third-largest economy, has pledged to reduce carbon emissions by at least 20 percent by 2030 as a contribution to a new agreement aimed at fighting global warming, the government said on Tuesday. Colombia said it is finishing plans and should present them to the United Nations Framework …
CDKN has been working with a range of expert organisations to provide technical assistance to nine developing countries as they prepare their INDCs for submission to the UNFCCC by October 2015. In this paper, Chris Dodwell and Emelia Holdaway of Ricardo-AEA with Kiran Sura and Helen Picot of CDKN summarise …
Issues stay unresolved as financing climate change action remains key to Paris Agreement Diplomats from the G20 group of countries will be meeting in Ankara, Turkey, on July 27-28 to discuss climate change finance - a topic that holds key to a successful round of negotiations at Paris in December, …
PARIS: Foreign and environment ministers and other high-level officials from 45 countries are set to gather in Paris Monday seeking to re-energise climate talks mired in technical details and political squabbling. Just four months ahead of a UN conference in the French capital tasked with producing a historic climate pact, …
