Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The climate change debate raises the issue of often identified, but as yet little explored, requirement to incorporate climate policy into other policy sectors, often termed climate
With the economic case for tackling climate change stronger than ever, the financial crisis provides an opportunity, not an obstacle, says Nicholas Stern.
This report seeks to assist businesses operating in Southeast Asia to: Understand the need to adapt to climate change. What is climate adaptation, and what does it mean for business?; Learn what others are doing within government, civil society, and the private sector to promote adaptation, and how these activities …
Jyoti Parikh / New Delhi December 10, 2008, 0:55 IST A liability framework for adaptation funds should be set up by linking payments with emissions. Thousands of delegates are deliberating this week on climate change at Poznan, in Poland. While spectacular outcomes are not expected, Poznan will prepare the ground …
This paper provides a conceptual backdrop for urban economic impact assessment of climate change and its specific aim is to provide both a conceptual and a methodological framework for OECD work in this area. The scope includes the assessment of the potential incidence and economic cost associated with changes in …
The challenge of climate change demands a response from all sectors of the economy. Importantly, action on the part of individuals will be required if greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are to be cut to the levels necessary to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. However, new challenges must be …
By Jyoti Verma The discussion is on, but it appears to be somewhat seasonal. Preferably on occasions like Earth Day (April 22) and Environment Day (June 5). It is only then that newspapers and magazines turn
Threat of climate change is real and urgent and know that combating this threat will require deep and drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The question in Poznan is, how will we re-commit the industrialized world to serious reduction of its emissions. Poznan must also determine if the world is …
CSE asks two questions - What did the rich countries do to meet Kyoto commitments? - How do we all share growth and atmosphere equitably? Its the question at Poznan for the welfare of people and the planet: will the rich world responsible for the stock of emissions find the …
Current estimates of the cost of the impacts of climate change in developing countries and of the needed adaptation measures are in very short supply, and the available ones are rather crude. To a large extent this is because this is a very new research area and no agreed methodology …
Considering the costs and risks of inaction, ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is economically rational. However, success in abating world emissions will ultimately require a least-cost set of policy instruments that is applied as widely as possible across all emission sources (countries, sectors and greenhouse gases). The main …
A Global Financial Architecture for Climate Change (Global Financial Architecture) is needed to shift public and private finance and investment flows towards decoupling economic growth from increasing greenhouse gas emissions to a low carbon and climate resilient future (including both adaptation and compensation). The UNFCCC secretariat
By YOJNA GUSAI New Delhi Nov. 26: India will demand a "new financing architecture" at the United Nations meeting on climate change beginning in Poland from next month. While the decision on who will lead the Indian delegation to the UN
Sigmar Gabriel Conflicts over energy and water will shape the decades to come and an efficient use of resources will become one of the dominating issues. Long-term energy and resource security are increasingly becoming the focus of political and economic debate worldwide. Industrialised and developing countries are looking for new …
This paper uses annual variation in climate to examine the impact of temperature and precipitation on national economies. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures substantially reduce economic growth in poor countries. Second, higher temperatures appear to reduce growth rates, not just the level of output. Third, higher temperatures …
The United States is developing national climate legislation. While the nation debates and assembles a comprehensive policy, federal agencies are issuing important policies ? from clean energy codes to air pollution standards ? that affect greenhouse gas emissions today. For these policies, the final choice among different regulatory alternatives can …
With developed economies staring at a recession, talks of the global financial meltdown forcing climate change negotiations into a freeze have gained ground. The collateral damage from the financial contagion closest home could be to India
The European Union is in danger of losing its self-assigned role as the champion of climate change mitigation with member states increasingly worried about the economic implications of taking on far-reaching commitments.
