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. …
UNFCCC doesn’t have the tools to drive global collective action to combat climate change; we need new platforms and ideas to drive transformation While we have made enormous progress in 25 years, the world is still running behind climate change. Today, the urgency to address climate change has never been …
The Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework places new and more stringent requirements on developing countries. For many countries, to implement these new requirements capacity-building support is vital. This new paper from the Project for Advancing Climate Transparency examines specifically how the new requirements have been enhanced, highlights the experiences of …
India had submitted data to access potential funds from global carbon trade under Paris Agreement after 2020 Doubts have been raised by a UN body over India’s claims that its forest cover has been increasing steadily for years. Questions have been raised by experts of the UN Framework Convention on …
The government Wednesday gave its ex post facto approval to India's negotiating stand at the recent climate change summit in Poland. The 24th Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Katowice in Poland during December 2-15 and the Indian delegation …
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet - highest decision-making body of government - on Wednesday gave its ex-post facto approval to the negotiating stand of India at recently held UN climate conference (COP24) in Katowice, Poland where the country had strongly flagged its reservations on a key point while constructively participating …
The Union Cabinet has approved Submission of India's second Biennial Update Report (BUR) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change towards fulfilment of the reporting obligation under the Convention. The scope of BUR is to provide an update to India's first BUR to UNFCCC. The BUR contains five …
India Tuesday made a strong case for funds from developed countries to developing nations to fight climate change, which is adversely affecting people around the globe. In a discussion paper released on the sidelines of COP 24 to UNFCCC at Katowice, Poland, the Finance Ministry said that in 2016, developed …
India had, in 2015, as part of the international requirement ahead of the finalisation of the Paris Agreement, listed a series of specific actions it would take to fight climate change. n the first working day of the year-ending climate change conference here, India told the world that it was …
KATOWICE: Indian Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the high level of greenhouse gas emission was a major concern and reaffirmed that India would play a "positive, constructive and balanced role" in the UN climate summit. "Our focus is on shifting to renewables," Vardhan told reporters on the sidelines …
Along with other members of the LMDC group, they demand detailed rules on climate finance flows India, China and other countries in the Like-Minded Developing Country group put forth their priorities on the first day of the UN Conference on Climate Change that kicked-off on December 2 in Katowice, Poland. …
This note prepared for COP24, the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), provides key updates to IRENA’s late 2017 analysis of the renewable energy components of NDCs. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) analysed NDC-based renewable energy pledges in late 2017, …
Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement breaks new ground. It is the first time that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process has set a collective goal reflecting the full scale of effort needed on finance to successfully address climate change. It acknowledges a vital piece of …
About half of developing countries express ambition to use agroforestry—the integration of trees with crops, livestock and other non-forest timber products—for adaptation and mitigation of climate change. In order for agroforestry contributions to be recognized and rewarded, however, countries need reliable systems for measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). Here we …
The United Nations Environment Program on Tuesday issued the latest in what’s been a flurry of reports on climate change and global greenhouse gas emissions progress, ahead of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) meeting in Poland next week. The “emissions …
A reported draft version of a communique being formulated by leaders of the G20 in advance of the 13th meeting of Group of Twenty to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, starting Friday, fails to back the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and makes no mention of the publication of the …
This guidance assists policymakers in designing national mitigation strategies for the refrigeration, air conditioning and foam (RAC&F;) sector to meet the increasing ambition levels expected in revised NDCs. By aligning efforts taken under the two relevant international regimes, the UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol, the RAC&F; sector can make a …
A UN body on climate change has indicated that emission of greenhouse gases and global warming are still on the rise despite current efforts and the world had lost an estimated $ 320 billion due to extreme weather events in a single year in 2017. “Despite all our efforts, greenhouse …
NEW DELHI: With countries gearing up to take part in one of the most complex UN climate conferences post-Paris deal, India on Tuesday made its view against historical polluters (rich nations) quite clear and reminded them of their responsibilities towards taking quick climate actions. “The developed countries seem to be …
The UNFCCC milestone publication highlight that success in tackling the global climate crisis can be achieved, but only if public and private sector actions are urgently stepped up. The Yearbook for Global Climate Action takes account of some 9,000 commitments – spanning cities, regions, businesses, investors and civil society – …
The Synthesis Report was prepared using submissions to the Talanoa Portal which received a total of 471 inputs throughout the year, including notably the IPCC’s special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also drew from stories that were presented by government and non-government representatives …
