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 …
Rajendra K. Pachauri says that India wants to be a constructive partner in Copenhagen negotiations on climate change. The country is taking domestic action even though it cannot accept mandatory emissions limits.
Amitabh Sinha In the run-up to the Copenhagen summit on climate change, India seems to be making the maximum number of concessions on its traditional stand on the issue. First, it put its signature on a Major Economies Forum declaration asking all signatories to work towards containing the global rise …
In one of the first such partnerships, India and China on Wednesday set up a joint working group to strengthen bilateral dialogue and practical cooperation on climate change. The two countries signed a Memorandum of Agreement, establishing the India-China Partnership on Combating Climate Change, and agreed to work closely with …
Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI DIPLOMATIC skirmishes between Beijing and New Delhi notwithstanding, India and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to cooperate on ways to fight climate change. They will also continue to work together in international climate deal negotiations. The agreement emphasised that the
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Reiterating that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol are the most appropriate framework for addressing climate change, India and China on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to establish a partnership in the area for strengthening dialogue and practical …
Tribune News Service New Delhi, October 20 India and other South Asian nations today said they would adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes emission cuts on developed countries, at the Copenhagen climate change summit in December. After the eighth meeting of SAARC environment ministers, Jairam Ramesh Union Minister for …
New Delhi: Faced with resistance from within and outside to his advocacy for a dramatic change of stand on climate change negotiations, environment minister Jairam Ramesh was in damage control mode on Tuesday. Backtracking on many of his controversial propositions, the environment minister denied that he had strayed from the …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: Prospects of a global deal on climate change being reached at the Copenhagen conference in December receded on Tuesday after a crucial meeting of representatives of the world
NEW DELHI: Member-states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Tuesday agreed to make a separate statement as an entity at the Copenhagen meet on climate change in December. This was decided at the Delhi Statement on Cooperation in Environment that was adopted at the end of …
NEW DELHI: Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State (independent charge), Environment and Forests, on Monday came under severe criticism for a recent proposal that, the Opposition said, amounted to a total shift in India
Neha Sinha Marking a shift from its earlier position of staying within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes, India now appears ready to collaborate with various countries on climate change. On top of the list are the US, China and Japan. In a bid to present itself as …
Nitin Sethi, TNN 19 October 2009, 12:18am IST NEW DELHI: India seems to have begun to shuffle its feet in the climate change negotiations. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, in a confidential letter to the PM, has suggested that India junk the Kyoto Protocol, delink itself from G77 -- the 131-member …
Colombo: Maldives, facing a grave threat of being swamped by the rising sea levels, appealed for concerted action on climate change when its Cabinet held the world
Oct. 18: India is one of the 17 major economies holding informal talks in London on climate change. The Major Economies Forum on energy and climate, which was launched by US President Barack Obama in March, aims to facilitate a candid dialogue among major developed and developing economies, especially as …
Rich countries led by the US were determined to bury the Kyoto Protocol and sought framing a new declaration. The US said it would not ratify Kyoto Protocol; the European Union suggested parts of Kyoto Protocol could be accommodated in a new legal instrument. Japan, the other major party to …
Rich countries led by the US were determined to bury the Kyoto Protocol and sought framing a new declaration. The US said it would not ratify Kyoto Protocol; the European Union suggested parts of Kyoto Protocol could be accommodated in a new legal instrument. Japan, the other major party to …
NEW DELHI: Terming the Delhi High Level Conference on Climate Change scheduled for next week a step forward in the process of the international policy dialogue on technologies needed to address climate change, the government on Thursday approved the proposal to exchange letters of agreement with the United Nations Department …
