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. …
This booklet provides basic information about the science of climate change and different points of view on how to deal with it. The booklet will serve as common ground for the discussions at the World Wide Views consultation. It focuses on issues which countries will negotiate at a major climate …
Indian diplomats should know by experience that it is the fine print and not rhetoric that will determine the impact of the Paris Agreement later this year India is currently formulating its 'target' for fighting climate change for the global deal that is to be signed in Paris by the …
For a long time, climate action has been associated with cutting Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And while the number one global greenhouse gas continues to retain its top spot, the evolving consensus is that cutting short-term pollutants such as hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) and black carbon, is equally, if not less …
The developed world would have to "walk the talk" on climate change and provide a green climate fund to the developing world, environment minister Prakash Javadekar has said, ahead of a crucial UN meet on the issue in Paris later this year. "Developed world would now have to walk the …
Marrakech — Africa has perhaps the most to lose from climate change and the most to gain from an effective climate change agreement. Ministers from governments across Africa have renewed their call for a strong and universal climate change agreement with increased flows of funds, including through market and finance …
HFCs have been widely used chemicals as substitute to Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs). HFCs being non-ODSs are not controlled so far under the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. However, emissions of HFCs are controlled along …
India made a formal proposal to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase down the super greenhouse gas, HFCs, used primarily as refrigerants and to make insulating foams.
Barisal Correspondent :Participants at a human chain rally in Barisal recently stressed preparations of local adaptation plan for facing climate change affects.The programme was organised in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall by Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) in cooperation with Network on Climate Change, Bangladesh (NCCB).Representatives from different social, …
Guide to INDCs - provides practical guidance to Least Developed Countries on how to prepare their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions for the UNFCCC. INDCs are contributions by the Parties to the UNFCCC towards achieving the ultimate objective of the Convention: to prevent dangerous human interference with the Earth’s climate.
GABON has submitted its new climate action plan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first African country to do so. This Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) comes well in advance of a new universal climate change agreement, which will be reached at the UN climate …
Australia appears to be developing a curious blind spot as it begins the process of deciding how little it intends to do about climate change after the year 2020. Earlier this week Australia released a bunch of documents designed to kick-start the process of developing its target to cut greenhouse …
USA and Russia have joined the league of countries who have declared their commitments to a climate action plan to cut post-2020 greenhouse gas emissions. Though the duo's promises do not hold any surprises, the move will now turn world's attention towards big emerging economies like China and India. USA, …
A day after the US submitted its climate action plan to UNFCCC, a green body in India today said the targets were "completely inadequate" and "woefully" short of ambition. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) claimed the US target to curb greenhouse gas emissions is just a "reiteration" of …
The USA, biggest historical polluter of the world, on Tuesday submitted its climate action plan — called Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) — to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), committing to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% below its 2005 levels by the year 2025. …
Asian Development Bank has become the first multilateral development bank accredited to receive financing from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for projects to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation in its developing member countries, the bank said in a statement yesterday. The GCF was established in 2010 under the United …
The U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction ended Thursday, making the first move to set specific goals and a time frame to mitigate the risks and damage of disasters amid the increasing threat posed by climate change. Under a new 15-year action plan adopted in Sendai, the governments of …
Q&A with Chris Field: The link between climate change and disaster risk reduction. Chris Field says that intergovernmental processes are really more about creatively encouraging ambition than mandating it.
The secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) communicated the negotiating text for a new climate change agreement to governments in all six official UN languages. This communication means that the formal legal and procedural requirements to allow countries to adopt a legal instrument under the …
With countries getting ready to present their respective climate action plan in advance ahead of the crucial Paris talks, India on Wednesday appealed the rich nations to vacate the carbon space for developing and emerging economies. It would be possible only if developed countries, whose per capita respective carbon emission …
