Status report filed by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board in the matter of Tribunal on its Own Motion Suo Moto based on the news item in Dinamalar, Chennai Edition dated 19/08/2024 titled "Kalquarry in Sikkarayapuram near Kundrathur is full of water" Vs The Chief Secretary to Government, Ministry …
Developed and developing nations spar for two days over implementation of the agreement Governments across the world paused after the Paris climate agreement in December, couching sighs of relief behind self-congratulatory notes. A deceptive bonhomie marked the pact's signing in New York in April this year. However, less than five …
BONN: A new round of talks on climate change sputtered to a close on Sunday, placing the onus on a UN summit in September to boost momentum for a global pact by the end of 2015. Delegates reported faltering progress in the 12-day session, a waypoint towards a deal to …
Will negotiating parties be able to sort out their differences at Doha? At the most recent UN meeting on climate change at Bonn, deep divisions that have existed between countries came to the fore, obscuring progress on the “delicately balanced” political deal that was agreed to just five months ago …
New Delhi: With the small island countries and the least developed states veering towards the European line on climate change, the larger developing economies came together with African countries binding around the BASIC four — India, China, South Africa and Brazil — to demand that principles of equity and ‘common …
But a workshop on equity at the climate inter-sessional refused to move beyond well-embedded party demarcations. It was India, which at last year’s climate negotiations at Durban had insisted on bringing the principle of equity back into the agenda for tackling climate change. The concept, which not so long ago …
NEW DELHI: On the second day of the Bonn climate change negotiations, the US, the EU and other developed countries tried to stall discussions on whether the rich countries had met their obligations on reducing emissions and financing the poor countries. Many developed countries pushed for talks to take place …
New Delhi: In climate talks beginning on Monday in Bonn, India will oppose the EU’s move to start negotiations on the draft of a new climate protocol in 2012 itself. Considering it another shift in the goalpost by the Europeans, the Indian team of negotiators is expected to point out …
As all countries take actions to reduce emissions the unresolved question is to what extent fairness will be the basis for international cooperation International cooperation for a global approach to climate change continues to tweak a failing system arrived at in 1992 rather than seeking a new framework and developing …
Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI THERE appears to be a great deal of frustration over the slow pace of climate change negotiations. The despondency is most marked in the outgoing UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer. On Monday, at the start of the second week of negotiations at Bonn, Mr …
Near-Resolved Issue Of Putting Up Technology Mechanism Reopens For Debate At Climate Meet Urmi A Goswami BONN AT BONN, it is one step back for the agreement on technology. The near-resolved issue of putting in place a mechanism to ensure effective transfer and development of technology has been reopened for …
The Asian Waterbird Census (AWC), conducted each year in January, is a waterbird and wetland-monitoring programme initiated in 1987 within the framework of the International Waterbird Census. This report summarises the results of the AWC from 1987 to 2007, comprising counts at 6,705 sites in 27 countries. A total of …
After 12 days of talks among delegates from 182 countries at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn which ended on June 12, the world seemed no closer to staving off the threat of global warming and its catastrophic consequences. What was needed was a firm commitment from developed countries to …
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 …
Temperatures are set to rise as negotiators gather to prepare for the crucial December Copenhagen climate agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol. From June 1 for 10 days temperatures will rise in Bonn as negotiators from all over the world congregate to prepare for the crucial December Copenhagen climate …
The United Nations took a step towards a new climate treaty on Friday by publishing the first draft negotiating texts to help bridge a "great gulf" between options for rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Two documents totalling 68 pages also laid out choices on controversial issues such as …
Russia's greenhouse gas emissions rose by a tiny 0.3 percent in 2007 to the highest in more than a decade, sharply lagging an oil-backed surge in economic growth, official data showed. Russia emitted 2.192 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007, up from 2.185 billion in 2006, according to …
Russia's greenhouse gas emissions rose by a tiny 0.3 percent in 2007 to the highest since 1990s economic downturn caused by the break-up of the Soviet Union, according to data submitted to the United Nations. Emissions edged up to 2.192 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007 from 2.185 …
There are positive signs a climate summit in December will forge a broader pact between rich and poorer nations to fight global warming, a top Australian official and an influential Chinese expert said on Wednesday. But the "wasteful and luxurious" lifestyles of rich nations could yet alienate poorer nations, with …
Bangladesh, regarded as one of the countries extremely exposed to climatic threats, has made its leadership visible in the global climate change negotiating process highlighting its 'right to survival as a human being', in recently concluded climate change talks in Bonn. The world leaders empathetically heard the concerns of Bangladesh …
