The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
This paper considers developments to date in the UNFCCC and in the REDD+ partnership and provides analysis on possible future options for REDD-plus, agriculture and land use.
Despite mounting alarm about climate change, almost 200 nations meeting in Doha from Monday are likely to pay little more than lip service to the need to rein in rising greenhouse gas emissions. A likely failure to agree a meaningful extension of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding plan …
Diplomats from around the world will gather for the United Nations (UN) climate talks in Doha, Qatar, where negotiators hope to agree a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol and lay the groundwork for a new global treaty that will take force by 2020. Nature takes a look at what …
Talks on a new climate change treaty in Qatar next week will not advance unless rich countries promise more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions, four major developing nations said. The four nations, Brazil, China, India and South Africa -known in climate talks as the BASIC bloc - released a …
A week ahead of the Doha round of United Nations sponsored negotiations on climate change, the BASIC countries-—Brazil, South Africa, India and China—met in Beijing to chalk out their strategy. The advanced developing countries’ agenda for Doha will focus on the Kyoto Protocol, the only global legal agreement to tackle …
China, India, South Africa and Brazil said a climate agreement expected to take effect in 2020 won't be a “new regime,” potentially setting up a confrontation with the US, which is seeking to eliminate a firewall in negotiations between developed and developing nations. The four countries are reining in expectations …
What you measure determines policy Another round of the annual climate meetings is going to take place and the most ambitious outcome will be limited negotiations on some elements, because there is as yet no shared vision of the problem and what to do about it. The negotiations at Doha …
India has accused European Union of threatening to break the ‘Durban deal’ on climate change and linking the ratification of Kyoto Protocol to new conditions. RR Rashmi, joint secretary (climate change) in the environment ministry and a senior negotiator, said, “To put it bluntly, the gain to EU by not …
India occupies an intriguing dual position in global climate politics – a poor and developing economy with low levels of historical and per capita emissions, and a large and rapidly growing economy with rising emissions. Indian climate politics has substantially been shaped around the first perspective, and increasingly, under international …
New Delhi: The Kyoto Protocol — the only global pact that legally requires the developed world to reduce emissions at the moment — is on the brink of collapse with indications that the EU and other rich countries will not be able to ratify it in time to kickstart the …
The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Rio de Janeiro) commits signatories to prevent ‘dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system’, leaving unspecified the level of global warming that is to be considered dangerous. But keeping the average rise in global temperature below 2°C has become the focus of …
Lack of proper infrastructure for registration of projects related with clean development mechanism is leading to increase in the cost of such ventures, says a study by industry body Ficci. Majority of the respondents participated in the study said that “lack of sufficient number of designated operational entities (DOE) affects …
With the nation's oil and gas plants firing at full capacity, government officials say there is little chance Japan will honor its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly over the next decade, a startling retreat for the country that once spearheaded an international agreement on climate change. The earlier, …
This paper suggests that vulnerable countries may benefit from considering strategies beyond the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol and highlights new proposals about reparations under international law. The study considers negotiations on loss and damage under the UNFCCC, dispute settlement under the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol, and international litigation. Then, …
The task for global governance in dealing with climate change is to focus on the interconnectedness between carbon dioxide emissions, standards of living and global ecological limits. The interdependence between countries makes the global commons, or carbon sinks, a shared economic resource as well as an unprecedented global environmental crisis, …
The Kyoto Protocol was intended to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries to 5 per cent less than they were in 1990, and this was to be achieved by the end of 2012. As that deadline approaches it is time to take stock of what has actually happened. …
This paper applies theory from the field of international relations to try and understand the role of the European Union (EU) in the Durban climate talks. In particular, it analyses the role of the EU’s alliance with groups of developing countries in facilitating an agreement on the Durban Platform for …
The purpose of this guide is to assist developing country negotiators and others involved in the negotiations on REDD-plus. The guide is divided into three parts: Part I considers REDD-plus and related issues in the negotiations; Part II contains general negotiating tips for new REDD-plus negotiators and others; and Part …
Major developing countries have dampened prospects for agreement on international carbon emissions reduction targets by insisting on distinguishing between the responsibilities of industrialised and emerging economies to act on climate change beyond 2020. At a meeting in Durban, South Africa, last December, ministers agreed to negotiate a deal, for implementation …
They make no promise on extending financial and technology support to developing countries. With just a day left for the informal negotiating session on climate change in Bangkok to conclude, the chair of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA), Aysar Tayeb of Saudi Arabia, expressed dismay …
