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. …
AHEAD of the June climate-change negotiations in Bonn, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has released the text by the chair of the Bali track (ad hoc group on longterm co-operative action) of the negotiations. The text represents a victory for the developing countries as it incorporates …
Chander Shekhar Sharma | Hamirpur Kisan sabha Kangra and residents of Palampur town of Himachal Pradesh have raised strong objections on the proposal by OM Power Project to claim Carbon Credits under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention
Climate policy, as it has been understood and practised by many governments of the world under the Kyoto Protocol approach, has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in 15 years. The underlying reason for this is that the UNFCCC/Kyoto model was structurally flawed …
Koenigswinter (Germany): Outgoing UN climate chief Yvo de Boer shot down expectations of a climate treaty this year, saying on Monday that a major UN conference in December would yield only a
There were as many opinions about what took place in Copenhagen last December 2009, as there were participants. Even more. Beyond those who did attend, a seemingly infinite number of blogs, op-eds, editorials, think tank workshops and diplomatic briefings are focusing on what happened and now what to do next …
Increasing transparency around actions countries take to address climate change is key to fostering confidence, trust and ambition among Parties to the UNFCCC. Accordingly, developed country Parties need to report on financial support given to developing countries under an international post-2012 climate change agreement. Agreement by Parties on the format …
This study explores ways to integrate industry in the process of designing and operationalising sectoral approaches to climate change according to a guideline that could be agreed in Canc
This recent study analyses the economic and political consequences of introducing a tax on the carbon content of imported goods at EU borders and whether such a tax would be compatible with WTO rules. This study analyses the economic and political consequences of introducing a tax on the carbon content …
This paper provides a brief overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) submissions made by developing countries as of 4 February 2010. Since February 1 submissions are added to the UNFCCC website every day and a number of Parties have stated an "intention? to do so. The current fluidity …
This survey paper examines the problem of achieving global cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Contributions to this problem are reviewed from non-cooperative game theory, cooperative game theory, and implementation theory. Solutions to games where players have a continuous choice about how much to pollute, games where players make decisions …
This report provides a brief update of greenhouse gas emission trends from the transport sector and discusses the outcome of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change held in December 2009 in Copenhagen. It is based on material collected for the OECD-ITF Joint …
Bolivia's attempt to win fresh support for the Kyoto Protocol is a step ahead in the efforts of the developing world to advance climate negotiations. Brazil, South Africa, India, and China have, as the BASIC countries, called for a legally binding, long-term cooperative agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention …
Mumbai: ITC Hotels has set a precedence by possibly becoming the first hospitality chain in the world to have earned carbon credits. Its luxury property, ITC Sonar in Kolkata, which switched to energy efficient CFL bulbs as part of its energy saving drive, has been issued 1,996 carbon credits per …
The joint Statement issued at conclusion of the meeting of ministers of BASIC Group at Cape Town. Ministers felt that a legally binding outcome on long-term cooperative action under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol should be concluded at Cancun, Mexico in 2010, or at the latest in South Africa …
