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. …
Climate negotiations can succeed only if developed countries stop weaseling out of their historical culpability Nitin Desai / New Delhi June 18, 2009, 0:28 IST The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with little to show by way of results. However, the deadline for agreement is December 2009 and in …
The climate change talks made no progress at Bonn Business Standard / New Delhi June 16, 2009, 0:20 IST The latest round of talks for thrashing out a successor to the Kyoto accord on climate change, on the basis of the new text circulated by the secretariat of the UN …
Dera Mandi forest is all set to earn carbon credits for Delhi Government which plans to develop 727 hectares into a zone that will help mitigate the growth in concentration of greenhouse gases. The Delhi Government
It seems unlikely that an agreement on the terms of the next climate treaty could be reached at the December-scheduled Copenhagen talks. The United States, not a member of the Kyoto Protocol and one of the major players in the international negotiations tussle over the climate treaty, has not yet …
Neha Lalchandani | TNN Bonn: The Bonn climate change talks are drawing to a close but the real action is yet to begin. Countries are still squabbling over squaring up the bill for climate change mitigation, with insufficient funds and no consensus on where the big bucks will come from. …
Climate Change, without doubt will be the biggest challenge to everyone. Though a developing country Sri Lanka has historically contributed less to the causes of climate change than the developed countries, who face some of the more severe consequences if action is not taken nationally to mitigate and adapt. This …
Boosting investments in the conservation, rehabilitation and management of the earth's forests, peat lands, soils and other key ecosystems could deliver significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and avoid even more being released to the atmosphere, said a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The UNEP's rapid …
Bangladesh has called upon the global community to support climate change strategies and adapt action plans of the least developed countries (LDCs) for facing the ever increasing adverse impacts of global warming and sea-rise. The call came when leader of Bangladesh delegation and environment ministry joint secretary Martuza Ahmed was …
New Delhi: Taking a privately expressed grouse to the formal level, the Indian climate team on Tuesday officially complained on the first day of the negotiations at Bonn that the negotiating text included elements that would alter the character and content of the international compact
During one of the many meetings preceding the Copenhagen round of talks scheduled to take place in December, the developed countries have tentatively agreed on a plan to collectively raise $100 billion per year in order to provide financial support to the poor and developing nations as they try to …
Unless the impact of agriculture is taken into account, the plans to cut global warming will come a cropper Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 2, 2009, 0:54 IST As serious negotiations start in Bonn to thrash out a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change that expires in …
The full legal text of the NGO Copenhagen Treaty written by a team of 47 experts from environment and development groups across the world, including Greenpeace.It is a work in progress, but is meant to encourage and provoke countries into thinking hard about the level of ambition, scope and detail …
The purpose of this brief is to highlight the close inter-linkages between climate change and the world of work. It aims to promote a better understanding between both spheres and greater coherence between climate, social and labour policies. The brief contains brief summaries of the state of knowledge about climate …
Results of an economic and policy modeling project aimed at improving understanding of impacts of various carbon policies on emissions reductions in the cement sector.It shows that cement production is likely to more than double by 2030. As a consequence, emissions could increase significantly, albeit at a slower pace than …
This Briefing summarises preliminary findings from research conducted for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The research has two goals: to assess the synergies or schisms between national adaptation policy frameworks and PRSs/NDSs, as discussed in this paper; and to assess the extent to which climate change adaptation has …
Deforestation, mainly conversion of forests for agriculture activities, has been estimated at an alarming rate of 13 million hectares per year (in the period 1990-2005). Deforestation results in immediate release of the carbon stored in trees as CO2 emissions. It is estimated that deforestation contributed globally to approximately 20 per …
