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 …
Rio de Janeiro : World leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, gathered today to make a fresh bid to chart out a common environmental blueprint amid economic woes and discord, as a crucial summit on sustainable development opened here. The Rio+20 summit was formally thrown open by UN chief Ban …
Document contains opening remarks by Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of State for Environment and Forests at the Media Interaction, held at Rio de Janeiro on June 20, 2012. She pointed out in the roundtable that India has already taken several steps to promote green growth in the context of sustainable development …
The document provides the full text of 53 pages final outcome document of Rio+20 Conference adopted on June 22, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, released during United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20 Summit). The document describes: 1) the common vision, 2) Renewing political commitment : a) reaffirming the …
How should the scale and the nature of the immense risks appear to face from unmanaged climate change influence the way frame both the economics and the approaches to the values or ethics which bring to the policy analysis? If fail to understand the issues of policy towards climate change …
Durban: India fought hard on Wednesday to ensure that the UN talks do not set a global target to cut emissions by a fixed figure under a pre-ordained timeframe. The issue referred to in the negotiations’ jargon as ‘peaking’ has reared its head at various occasions over the past few …
December 2: Talks at the climate change conference have predictably bogged down over funding and over the insistence of the first world countries that emerging economies like India and China also commit to legally binding and higher reduction of carbon emission. Countries like Japan, Canada, Russia and New Zealand have …
It’s that time of the year again. Climate change talks are heating up, with the next conference of parties scheduled in Durban in end-November. There is heat but no light. The negotiations are stuck despite the clear signs of climate change: dangerous and potentially catastrophic extreme weather events. Not much …
Read this indepth review by Stockholm Environment Institute of new developments in climate economics and science since the Stern Review (2006) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007). Economic analysis has become increasingly central to the climate policy debate, but the models and assumptions of climate …
Australia's controversial plan to introduce a tax on carbon emissions cleared a major political hurdle Wednesday, securing the expected approval of the country's lower legislative house. The package to introduce a price on carbon pollution and encourage investment in clean and renewable energy narrowly passed at 74-72. The law is …
The concept of this paper was originated in ICTSD’s research and policy dialogues under the Global Platform. The study shows that the impact on net emissions covered by the EU ETS could be large, as with growing aviation emissions, operators will have to buy allowances from other sectors in the …
This factsheet presents expected drought losses under the high climate change scenario with possible response measures (e.g. insurance) for Maharashtra, India. It asserts that making rural communities more resilient to the impact of climate change requires a comprehensive portfolio of adaptation measures. It highlights that decision makers need the facts …
Urging the developed countries to fulfil the obligation of providing the developing nations with $30 billion, the BASIC group of countries, formed by Brazil, South Africa, India and China, today said this fast-start financing should be made available as soon as possible in a transparent manner. The fund was promised …
The United Nations climate change talks in Tianjin, China, witnessed some progress on the issue of financing of climate change mitigation and adaptation but there is a significant gap between the level of funding required and what has been committed so far. Fast-paced action on climate financing, including identification of …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: Financial assistance from developed countries for projects to combat climate change in the developing world has emerged as a key sticking point at the climate meet in Tianjin, which is the last round of negotiations before the year-end Cancun conference. Negotiators from India, China and other developing …
Climate finance or additional resources for developing countries to fight global warming was an integral element of the Copenhagen Accord drawn up at the climate summit in December 2009. But preparatory meetings for the next round of climate negotiations indicate that the sinners of climate change have already begun to …
Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica, who took over as head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) this July, said she expected rich countries to also indicate the
Sheila Mathrani Geneva: The informal climate change ministerial talks in Geneva hosted by the Swiss government to overcome the hurdle of tong-term financing of mitigation and adaption measures and its regulation on climate change evoked mixed responses from the players and NGOs. The success of the climate change talks in …
The Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill has said that dealings in carbon credit will be taxable under the new regime. The income through such transactions will attract 30 per cent corporate tax.
Premila Nazareth Satyanand Policymakers and business leaders might find it useful to leaf through UNCTAD's just-released World Investment Report 2010: Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy. Climate change, till now a
