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 U.N. climate negotiations went into overtime with most contentious issues for this year being discussed between gathered Ministers. By Friday evening, the only breakthrough, a partial one, was on the creation of a mechanism to address loss and damage from climate change. The Ministers decided that a Warsaw Mechanism …
The developed countries must step up to the plate to come true on their existing commitments to fight climate change, said Jayanthi Natarajan, Indian Environment Minister, while addressing the U.N. climate negotiations. The irony “There is a huge ambition gap between what developed countries have pledged and what is required …
In a rare sign of frustration and solidarity, over 800 representatives of NGOs staged a walkout from the climate negotiations here, citing lack of commitment from developed countries and take over by corporate interests. The environmental NGOs have always been an integral part of the climate talks and are allowed …
EU, U.S., Australia & Canada most vocal against setting up separate mechanism The G77+China group of 134 countries walked out of negotiations on Loss and Damage in the wee hours of Wednesday after the rich countries refused to budge from their position that the subject should be discussed only after …
पिछले नौ साल में इस कॉन्फ्रेंस में वॉक आउट की घटना पहली बार हुई है। विकासशील देशों का कहना है कि ड्राफ्ट की बातें यूएनएफसीसीसी के प्रावधानों से मेल नहीं खातीं। इन देशों ने सीओपी 19 कॉन्फ्रेंस छोड़ देने तक की धमकी दी है। वहीं, अमेरिका, कनाडा, ऑस्ट्रेलिया और यूरोप …
Hours after major NGOs walked out of the UN Climate Change conference, India on Thursday said it fully shared the sentiments of the civil society and asked the developed nations to act in combating climate change. Associated Press “It is a matter of deep concern to my country that there …
India today expressed displeasure with “some” developed countries for abandoning the greenhouse gas emission targets set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and asked the industrialised nations to ratify their pledge for the second commitment period of the treaty. Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan. At the conference of the representative ministers of …
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan supported the G77 walkout at talks on Loss and Damage. “We totally agree with the G77 position. This is a very weak draft [on loss and damage]. It is extremely diluted and shows absolutely no commitment to the loss and damage. This …
WARSAW: In a surprising move, the Polish government on Wednesday sacked its environment minister Marcin Korolec, who heads the country's delegation at the climate talks here. Though Korolec will remain the country's representative at the talks, the move has put question marks over Poland's commitment to the negotiations -- specifically …
Support Protest, Says Jayanthi Warsaw: In a rare show of strength against rich nations, the G77+China Group, comprising almost all developing countries, walked out of the negotiations on the crucial Loss and Damage (L&D;) issue on early Wednesday. The move sent a strong message that poor nations are not going …
On the day that the BASIC countries came together to take the high moral ground against non-delivery of commitments by the developed world, India took on the rich countries for trying to put a Trojan horse to break the differentiation between developed and developing countries in the Warsaw decisions. Inside …
Warsaw: The Green Climate Fund pledged by developed nations to foster climate-friendly development in poor and developing countries would be operationalised soon, as demanded by emerging economies like India and China. Speaking at the UN Climate Conference, Co-Chair of the Green Climate Fund board, Manfred Konukiewitz today said that the …
India would strongly oppose the US and EU's stand on the issue of phasing out refrigerant gas HFCs at the high-level ministerial talks at the UN Climate Change summit here, official sources said Wednesday. "In view of the lack of safe, technologically viable, and economically feasible alternatives, the issue of …
- At climate meet, India takes middle path on compensation for calamity damage THE STATE OF THE EARTH: THE PHILIPPINES A human skull, one of dozens found in a destroyed public cemetery, is displayed atop a tomb in Hernani town, central Philippines, on Monday, after the graves were swept away …
Warsaw: Sensing that government alone won’t be able to usher in climate change breakthroughs, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first-of-its kindplatform, where chief executives of major MNCs will join top government officials to share solutions, commitments and plans towards feasible action at the ongoing green talks which …
The G77+China group of 133 countries walked out of negotiations on Loss and Damage at around 3:30 am on Wednesday morning after the rich countries refused to budge from the position that the subject should be discussed only after 2015. The U.S., Australia and Canada have been the most vocal …
People around the world are feeling the "wrath of a warming planet", U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday, urging almost 200 governments to take tougher action to reach a deal in 2015 on fighting global warming. Ban told environment ministers at climate talks in Warsaw they had a steep …
The U.N. climate chief urged a radical clean-up of the coal industry on Monday to help limit global warming, at an industry meeting in Warsaw condemned by environmentalists as a distraction from the nearby U.N. climate change conference. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Climate Change Secretariat, told the coal …
The persistence of climate change negotiators huddled together in Warsaw from over 190 countries is laudable. Even when countries are failing to reign in their greenhouse emissions that is causing a rise in global temperatures, the negotiations keep going. This is their 19th attempt under the Conference of Parties (COP) …
Hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) — a family of greenhouse gases used as refrigerants —can be and should be handled right away under the Montreal Protocol, said the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, Todd Stern.He suggested that countries were merely delaying by talking of legal and other issues in moving the …
