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 …
Copenhagen: India and other emerging economies can expect little from the US at Copenhagen in terms of finance and would be pushed to do more than take action voluntarily at home. This was made clear by US special envoy on climate change Todd Stern in a press conference. Reflecting that …
JOHN HEILPRIN Some of the poorest nations feared too much of the burden to curb greenhouse gases is being hoisted onto their shoulders Negotiators on Wednesday worked to bridge the chasm between rich and poor countries over how to share the burden of fighting climate change, and a top US …
HARDEV SANOTRA Financial Chronicle The UN clean development mechanism (CDM) needs a better regulatory framework and a more streamlined decision-making if the system is to be scaled up, according to the World Bank. The CDM set up under the Kyoto Protocoal encourages private sector investment in projects in developing countries …
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2009 received a shot in the arm on its opening morning as an authoritative analysis showed that if countries deliver on their present commitments for the year 2020, they could almost keep the global rise in temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial …
This report from the Green New Deal Group argues that the UK is currently missing a historic opportunity in the pre-budget report to tackle public debt, create thousands of new green jobs and kick-start the transformation to a low-carbon economy.
Unlike America's leaders, China's bosses are not much troubled by recalcitrant legislatures. The government has therefore had no difficulty in executing a smart volte face on climate change. Around three years ago its fierce resistance to the notion of any limit on its greenhouse-gas emissions started to soften. It now …
What economists have to say about mitigating climate change EVER since climate change became a subject for public discourse, economists have been making life difficult for environmentalists. Their problem is that mitigating climate change will require sizeable investments. When making investments, governments and companies normally look at rates of return. …
Book cover of 'The Economics and Politics of Climate Change' edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron HepburnThe Economics and Politics of Climate Change Edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn Oxford University Press
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission has promised a substantial hike in funds allocation to study climate change impact and the funds will be made available after the Kasturirangan Committee submits a report. This was stated by Member (Energy), Planning Commission, B.K. Chaturvedi, while inaugurating
The climate debate at Copenhagen will offer a fortune, if not a solution Sunanda K Datta-Ray / New Delhi December 05, 2009, 0:48 IST The excitement over next week
This book "Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets", challenges the environmental claims made about carbon markets and carbon offsetting schemes. The book - which collates contributions from more than 30 leading experts - is another voice in the growing criticism about the business of carbon and how …
This book "Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets", challenges the environmental claims made about carbon markets and carbon offsetting schemes. The book - which collates contributions from more than 30 leading experts - is another voice in the growing criticism about the business of carbon and how …
The history of financial support for developing countries is seen by many as littered with disappointments and broken promises that have eroded trust to an unprecedented level. Whatever financial regime is to emerge from the Copenhagen Climate Conference, it will have to remedy this situation. This is highly unlikely without …
Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: A Primer for Policy Makers and NGOs considers how to move towards a climate justice agenda. It is designed for people engaged in climate change policy-making, whether through governments or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as others interested in better understanding the current discourse.
This report supports development of a national policy and sectoral strategies. The urgent needs for adaptation are up to $650 million per year by 2012. In the road to Copenhagen, and beyond, three foundations are institutional capacity, knowledge management and multi-stakeholder funding for developing early prototypes of successful action. Many …
The paper discusses potential biodiversity implications of different REDD design options that have been put forward in the international climate change negotiations and examines how the creation of additional biodiversity-specific incentives could be used to complement a REDD mechanism, so as to target biodiversity benefits directly.
This policy brief examines how much global emissions of greenhouse gases will have to fall from present levels to create a reasonable chance (i.e. a 50 per cent probability) of avoiding a rise in global average temperature of more than 2
Developed and developing countries cannot agree on even the fundamentals of what should be included in climate finance (e.g. should private finance through carbon markets be included?), let alone the level and terms of financing commitments, regulatory and other mechanisms, or governance structures. This impasse, which reflects a lack of …
