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. …
India has made it clear that it will not support a global climate change regime that simply links commitment to reduce carbon emissions to a country's financial resources. At the latest round of UN-sponsored climate change negotiations underway in Bonn, India said linking emission reduction to a country's financial resources …
EU has threatened to fine Air India and Jet Airways (India) for not sharing their emission data Taking a tough stance against the European Union (EU)'s emission norms for airlines, the environment ministry has indicated that it would approach the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the International …
Japan and Norway topped a list of industrialised nations that beat a $US30 billion ($31 billion) funding goal for climate-protection projects in poorer countries, Climate Analytics said as it urged better coordination in future rounds. Developed nations paid out $US35.9 billion of public funds and $US3 billion of private finance …
Emissions Are Up, Temperatures Are Up, But Is It Killing Us? The Jury Is Still Out Are we too late? Or is there time to arrest the rollercoaster ride to doomsday predictions? Either way, has the science of climate change ever influenced negotiations at cl i m at e m …
Tata PowerBSE -0.11 % today said its 50.4 MW wind energy project in Karnataka has been registered under the United Nation's clean development mechanism programme. "The Gadag plant helps in reducing an annual average of 99,100 tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent, by producing 107,064 MWh per year (average) equivalent amount of …
This year’s Perspectives from UNEP and its UNEP Risø Centre in collaboration with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) focuses on the elements of a new climate agreement by 2015 that will contribute to achieve the 2°C limit for global warming. The first paper frames the global mitigation challenge based …
Bridging the Gap has released a newly updated publication reviewing the NAMA intentions communicated to the UNFCCC from a land transport perspective. The aim of this paper is to provide an insight into the numbers of transport NAMAs submitted to the UNFCCC and additionally some examples of transport NAMAs that …
The Mapping Carbon Pricing Initiatives report maps existing and emerging carbon pricing initiatives around the world. It does not provide a quantitative, transaction-based analysis of the international carbon market since current market conditions invalidate any attempt to undertake such an analysis. The development of national and subnational carbon pricing initiatives …
In this article we have studied a scheme of partitioning the global carbon budget using an equity principle. In contrast to earlier approaches, this article carefully distinguishes between the two quantities – ‘entitlements to carbon space’ and ‘physically available carbon space’. A positive feature of the carbon budgets approach to …
This publication is intended to enable national policy makers and other stakeholders, such as the private sector and technical experts, to acquaint themselves with the concept of NAMA. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) concept and enhance the understanding of NAMAs by …
The latest round of UN sponsored climate talks kicked off in Bonn on Monday amid mounting concerns of high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Bonn round of talks follows fresh data released by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego that carbon dioxide concentration in the …
Voicing concern over "painfully slow" progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was "nowhere in sight" and called for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency. While inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial, Singh also made it clear …
Voicing concern over “painfully slow” progress in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the goal of stabilising global temperatures was “nowhere in sight” and pitched for individual countries to take action to increase energy efficiency. Dr. Singh also made it clear that rich nations, who were responsible …
This document presents a compilation of the information on all nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) communicated by developing country Parties to date. The compilation comprises the NAMAs contained in documents FCCC/AWGLCA/2011/INF.1 and FCCC/AWGLCA/2012/MISC.2 and Add.1 and those communicated by four developing country Parties, which have not previously been included in …
UNEP Risø Centre, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) and the OECD have released a report titled 'National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Baseline Scenarios: Learning from Experiences of Developing Countries.' The report intends to increase transparency and contribute to the understanding of pledges presented by UNFCCC parties with the ultimate objective …
Over the past three years RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests and the FAO have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th, 16th and 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets …
A waste audit and a ground water quality check has begun in Fuvahmulah Island yesterday. These surveys are carried out by the Ministry, Environment Protection Agency and with the collaboration from the Atoll Council. Surveys would be carried for five days. These exercises are carried as a part of formulating …
Bangladesh and Japan on Tuesday signed an agreement to tackle the challenge of climate change by reducing green house gas emissions. Bangladesh’s environment and forest secretary Md Shafiqur Rahman Patwari and Japan’s ambassador in Dhaka Shiro Sadoshima signed the agreement. Bangladesh’s environment and forest minister Hasan Mahmud said that a …
Expert warns that people should not be seduced by disaster insurance, saying it is not a panacea for weather-related shocks In most developing countries, farmers risk losing their crops and livestock to droughts or floods, and the recent intensity of these climatic shocks has been record-setting. As the losses from …
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s composting plant in Okhla received Rs.25 lakh as carbon credits from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The plant, which has been set up under a Public Private Partnership model with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited, has processed two lakh tonnes of …
