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 …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Even as the world fails to arrive at any consensus on climate change ahead of the Copenhagen meet scheduled for December, India is all set to come up with a statement at the end of a high level conference on Climate Change: Technology Development and Transfer …
JAIPUR: The British High Commission along with an international NGO has invited the Pink City to COP 15 summit at Copenhagen in December this year. The reason: Jaipur has been adjudged as one of the cities which has a low emission record per capita. Jaipur had participated in a project …
WITH a new United Nations climate treaty due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, the developed world and the emerging economies are trying to bridge their differences on how to curb greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. The US wants developing countries like India and China to agree …
Bangkok: With merely eight days of negotiation time effectively remaining before the final round of talks at Copenhagen, the future of a global climate deal has got stuck with the intransigence of industrialised countries. At the same time, the attempt by rich countries to do away with the existing Kyoto …
The special early excerpts of the World Energy Outlook 2009 released by IEA on 6th Oct 2009 at the climate meet in Bangkok. It finds that investment in polluting technologies has been deferred and CO2 emissions could fall in 2009 by as much as 3% - steeper than at any …
China and a bloc of developing nations on Monday accused rich countries of trying to kill off the Kyoto Protocol, the only international treaty in force that fights global warming. "We now hear statements and actions that will lead to a termination of the Kyoto protocol and everything that it …
UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said on Saturday negotiators had just 10 days left to secure a global climate deal and governments must not be hindered by domestic troubles. The United Nations hopes to bring 190 governments together in early December in Copenhagen to finalise a deal on greenhouse gas emissions …
The moment of truth will already be upon us in a few weeks. In mid-December 2009 delegates from practically all the countries of the world will meet in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations. It will perhaps be the biggest meeting that has ever taken place. The results of this …
Many countries that have made commitments under the Kyoto agreement will have problems meeting them. For most countries this will only be possible by resorting to
In the international climate negotiations leading up to a Copenhagen agreement, different topics are often discussed separately and with specialized experts. This implies that synergies between concepts are sometimes not identified. Two issues that receive particular attention in the negotiations are
Until now, agriculture has been largely excluded from global carbon markets, but this is set to change in December 2009 at the Copenhagen conference. Agribusiness companies are lobbying hard to make a range of farming activities eligible for future funding under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). As a result, billions …
This paper has been written on the basis of UN climate change negotiation on AWG-LCA and AWG-KP that has held in Bangkok from 28 September to 9 October 2009. This analysis focuses the areas of discontents of the country Parties and urges for political decisions and commitment from all country …
After months of faltering and incremental progress on negotiating text, two months before the end of the two year process leading to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, 2009, diplomats in Bangkok finally started debating the substantive ideas underlying Parties
A new global climate agreement will be most effective if parties are confident that it enables them to assess how well others are fulfilling their obligations. This can be achieved through a rigorous system of measurement, reporting, and verification. Key elements should include: annual emission inventories for all major greenhouse …
Adopted at the thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 13) in December 2007, the Bali Action Plan (BAP) raised the political status of adaptation and opened discussions on international adaptation finance. Since COP 13, financing has in …
Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amounts of public and private investment to limit emissions while promoting green growth in developing countries. While attention has focused on emissions limitations commitments and architectures, the crucial issue …
