India’s Third National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was submitted on December 9, 2023. The report contains information on India’s greenhouse gas emissions, its vulnerability to climate change, and the measures it is taking to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. …
While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate fund committed by developed countries in Copenhagen, a new institutional arrangement for financing came into focus in the ongoing climate change meeting here in Bonn today. Delegates of the country parties of the UNFCCC discussed the issue in …
With little progress being made in the climate talks underway in Bonn for the past one and half weeks, India and China Wednesday stressed on the need to go back to basics and re-start the process from the first principles enshrined in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). …
While there has been a general frustration at the lack of progress in the climate talks, it is evident that the ongoing meetings in Bonn are struggling to address more pressing issue at hand
THE concerted attempt over the past few months to lower expectations from the Cancun conference on climate change has not gone down well with Mexico. On Tuesday, Mexico responded by saying that Cancun can deliver results, and that the world community needs to be
Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI THERE appears to be a great deal of frustration over the slow pace of climate change negotiations. The despondency is most marked in the outgoing UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer. On Monday, at the start of the second week of negotiations at Bonn, Mr …
FOR THREE days, beginning Sunday, environment ministers from 45 countries will meet for the Petersburg Climate Dialogue named after the castle of St Petersburg located outside Bonn. The Petersburg dialogue is being held at the behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
This submission examines agriculture in the context of the climate change negotiations. It also underlines the importance of early discussion on the scientific, technological, and methodological aspects of agricultural mitigation within the Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) to the more policy-focused work on agriculture under the AWG-LCA …
This paper assesses the state of the adaptation negotiations under the UNFCCC after the historic climate summit of Copenhagen. It compares the current draft negotiating text (June 2010) and compares it to key essentials that an ambitious adaptation action framework needs to contain to assist developing countries living up to …
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the search for a home, or homes, for hosting international deliberations and action on energy subsidy reform. The two most obvious contenders for such an ?institutional home? are the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). …
This briefing explores the current debates around insurance mechanisms to assess how disaster insurance supports community responses to climate change, and calls for priority to be given to community-based disaster risk reduction.
This paper critically examines the clean development mechanism (CDM) established under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol in terms of its effectiveness as a vehicle for technology transfer to developing countries, a specific commitment under the UNFCCC. Fundamentally, the paper poses the question of whether technology transfer as part of …
RASHME SEHGAL with agency inputs NEW DELHI : The UN Secretary General has appointed the Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres to replace the outgoing head of the UN Framework Convention on Climte change (UNFCC) Yvo de Boer. The appointment was made after consultations with the Conference of Parties through its …
At the recently concluded Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OCFC), India presented its initiatives on forestry related to climate change and made a strong case for a REDD+ mechanism, which takes a holistic approach for incentivising actions to reduce emissions from forests and promoting sustainable management of forests. India associated …
Amitabh Sinha A global, comprehensive and legally-binding agreement on climate change that was expected to have been finalised in Copenhagen in December last year is unlikely to be delivered in the next climate change conference as well. The outgoing head of the UN climate body, Framework Convention on Climate Change …
Almost six projects in Pakistan have been registered with the United Nation (UN) for controlling carbon emission. Around 16 more projects are under validation for registration with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a branch of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These would be registered projects include hydropower …
