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. …
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 kind-platform, 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 …
UN climate chief urges coal industry to come cleanWarsaw: Echoing the concerns of environmental groups, United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres on Monday asked the coal industry to diversify to cleaner energy sources "rapidly and dramatically" to halt global climate change. Christiana Figueres told a meeting of the CEOs of …
By all accounts, no dramatic developments are to be expected from the 19th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that started in Warsaw last week. But it is generally acknowledged that the key issue at Warsaw, even if there …
Bangladesh has ratified the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol as the 4th country among the member of the UNFCCC. Dr Aparup Chowdhury, additional secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, said this to the news agency while Bangladesh presented the Country Statement at the stocktaking Plenary Session …
This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that it is essential to eliminate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. The report argues for closer collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk management communities through the incorporation of climate …
On the eve of the ministerial round of discussions next week, Japan stunned the rest of the countries on Friday at the climate talks here by announcing that it was ditching its earlier emission reduction targets of 25 per cent reduction below 1990 levels. Instead, it pledged to reduce emissions, …
A draft text of a ministerial decision on the controversial phasing out of refrigerant and global warming gases – hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – circulating in the negotiations stirred debate on late Friday night on how the talks would progress over the week when the ministers from more than 130 countries gather …
Internal briefing paper accessed by The Hindu shows U.S. wants to promote its tech firms In an internal briefing paper prepared for its diplomats across the world before the Warsaw climate negotiations, which The Hindu accessed, the U.S. has opposed the setting up of a separate mechanism on ‘loss and …
India, others claim victory, experts feel it could prove counterproductive India and other developing countries have succeeded in ensuring that there will be no discussion on agriculture in the ongoing climate change negotiations in Warsaw, a development that could well prove a pyrrhic victory. Discussion on ways to deal with …
India, China and other countries in the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group on Tuesday formally took the position that the new climate agreement must not force developing countries to review their voluntary emission reduction targets. Setting itself up in direct confrontation with developed countries, the LMDC made it clear that …
Tiny island states that speck the vast swathe of the Pacific Ocean have a far greater importance in understanding global climate change than their tiny populations would suggest. This was the message given to delegates during a side event of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's 19th annual meeting …
Several developing countries, including India, have opposed the call for all countries to provide emission reduction pledges at a special session of heads of state in September 2014. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for the special session of world leaders ahead of the finalisation in 2015 of a …
In the lead-up to the UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, 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 contains, for more than 140 countries and regions: estimates of …
A day before the formal opening of the U.N. climate negotiations, delegates from more than 190 countries began informal parleys to set up common positions and strategies. Many rounds of meetings between different block of countries and the U.N .Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) officials too went on in …
It refers to demands of poorest countries that they must be compensated for inevitable losses caused by the existing level of greenhouse gas emissions, which any amount of reduction of future emissions will not stop. A day before the formal opening of the U.N. climate negotiations, delegates from more than …
Team to reassert importance of historical emissions in the discussions at Warsaw The Union Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan and climate negotiators’ team got the approval from the Union Cabinet on Thursday to reassert the importance of historical emissions in the new climate agreement, which is to be discussed …
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Wednesday accorded ActionAid Bangladesh the ‘Lighthouse Initiatives 2013′ award for its success in empowering rural women to facilitate climate change adaptation initiative, reports UNB. A total of 17 climate change adaptation initiatives from 13 countries received the prestigious award this …
‘India must seek to ensure that new deal remains embedded within existing U.N. framework’ The Union Cabinet is likely to decide the non-negotiables for the coming climate change negotiations on Thursday. It will take a call on the shape of the new global agreement that India would push for at …
Greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 will be 8 billion to 12 billion tonnes more than the level needed to keep global warming to only 2 degrees Celsius and avoid severe climate change, a United Nations report estimated on Tuesday. The annual U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) report analysed countries' current pledges …
A ministerial dialogue will be held at the summit to devise a strategy that will ensure funding from private and public sources for tackling climate change An effort to provide developing countries with funds to tackle climate change and its adverse impacts will be on top of the agenda at …
