Climate Agreements

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Outlook 2025: Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Policy for Sustainable Recovery

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 …

Addressing the Post-Kyoto stress disorder: reflections on the emerging legal architecture of the climate regime

This article identifies and explores the range of legal form options available to states in the negotiation process, and outlines the political and strategic considerations at play which will ultimately govern choice of legal form. This article argues that one of the most significant factors hindering substantive progress on a …

Climate change policy: recommendations to reach consensus

As the fi nancial crisis continues to take its toll on the global economy, another serious challenge looms large: preventing the planet from warming more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Policymakers are now faced with the daunting task of stimulating growth without using carbon-intensive practices and stabilizing the climate without dampening …

The contribution of the commercial transfer of technology to climate change mitigation

Together the United States and China account for approximately 40 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, and only through concerted and coordinated action the challenge of climate change can be met. Technology transfer promises to be one of the key areas for U.S.-China cooperation. This report discusses the challenges …

World economic and social survey 2009: promoting development, saving the planet

The latest annual UNDESA report released by Sunita Narain, director of Centre for Science and Environment backs India and developing countries on the climate front.It says that rich countries had consumed more than fair share oftheir carbon space and needed to take deep emission cuts if the new climate agreement …

India will not and should not take reduction targets

Watch Jairam Ramesh, India's minister for environment and forests briefing the journalists about India's position on climate negotiations at the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, organised by CSE on August 28, 2009. This video presents the talk by Jairam Ramesh, India

Global warming in an unequal world: facts, politics and way ahead

This presentation shows the present scenario of climate change. It stresses on its political and economic challenge and the key issues for the upcoming climate agreement at Copenhagen. This presentation is delivered by Sunita Narain, CSE, Delhi at South Asian media briefing workshop on climate change, organised by Centre for …

Shyam Saran responds to South Asian journalists at CSE workshop I

This video presents the interaction of Shyam Saran, special envoy of the Prime Minister (climate change) with 120 South Asian journalists on the issue of India

Shyam Saran briefs South Asian journalists at CSE workshop (Part I )

Watch Shyam Saran at CSE's South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change on Aug 27, 2009. He briefed more than 120 journalists on the climate deal that developing countries look for at Copenhagen, this year in December. This video shows the briefing by Shyam Saran, special envoy of the …

Climate talks inch ahead

The second round of climate change talks in Bonn concluded a little after 5 in the evening on June 12. Twelve days of heated talks among representatives of 182 countries yielded very little: developed countries were not ready to do anything. After much wrangle, 37 developing countries agreed on how …

Climate change negotiating positions of major developing country emitters

Developing countries with large greenhouse gas emissions play a decisive role in negotiating a post-Kyoto climate agreement. No effective program to reduce global emissions is possible without their support. At the same time, developing countries face a delicate task in balancing their growing responsibility for a livable climate with the …

Warming to the climate

Lunch with BS: Shyam Saran Jyoti Malhotra / New Delhi August 18, 2009, 0:55 IST India's ace diplomat agrees to the developed world

Climate change and G8 summit

R. Ramachandran The G8 summit has delivered precious little on climate change for the developing countries even as the developed countries have hailed the consensus on the 2oC limit on global warming as a major achievement. From the perspective of international negotiations on climate change, the most significant outcome of …

Copenhagen will not provide solution: Jeffrey Sachs

RASHME SEHGAL Dr Jeffrey Sachs director of the Earth Institute at Colombia University and special adviser to the United Nations on Millennium Development Goals, strikes a pessimistic note about countries reaching an agreement on climate change at the Copenhagen Climate Summit scheduled for later this year. "I do not see …

India should accept climate change flow obligations, ask for superfund: Jagdish Bhagwati

Narayan Lakshman Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, is regarded as one of the foremost international trade economists of his generation. He has been Economic Policy Adviser to Arthur Dunkel, Director General of GATT (1991-93), Special Adviser …

Regaining the narrative

India needs to start setting the agenda on climate change Arvind Subramanian made an important point when he wrote on this page last week that India had lost the

Technology transfer to China to address climate change mitigation

This paper analyzes whether and how transfer of climate mitigation technologies to China occurs, by studying cases of seven technologies that are at the stage of deployment or diffusion. Most of these technologies were already transferred to China in terms of both technology adoption and local production. International division of …

China ally for climate change talks

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said India was unperturbed by China's recent agreement with the US on climate change. Calling Beijing as an "important ally" in the process to negotiate a pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, he said the text of the agreement did not have anything …

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