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. …
New Delhi: India has clarified its stand on the issue of international scrutiny of climate change actions in a note forwarded by Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh to the on-going meet of 17-country Major Economies Forum at Washington. The Copenhagen Accord, agreed to by India in the last …
UN climate talks held in Bonn, Germany over the weekend produced only modest progress in the negotiations toward a global deal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. The sluggish pace of the weekend discussions suggests that 2010 may turn out to be a painfully slow year for the multilateral climate …
Bonn: Three days of talks aimed at putting a new gloss on UN climate talks ended here late on Sunday after new textual trench warfare less than four months after a stormy summit in Copenhagen. Countries wrangled for hours beyond the scheduled close over the work schedule under the UN …
This paper by the Global Donor Platform makes recommendations on how, within the global climate negotiations, agriculture can contribute to food security and secured livelihoods, while simultaneously building resilience to climate change, reducing GHG emissions and sequestering carbon.
The objective of this report is to derive evaluation criteria for global climate policy and to apply this analysis framework to a number of existing proposals for climate policy architectures relying on a global carbon market. In addition, the current policy landscape defined by the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen …
This policy paper shows how the current deadlock in international climate policy can be broken. A resolute course must be set in the international climate process within the next few years in order to keep the global mean temperature rise below 2
This discussion paper examines the outcomes of the Copenhagen climate summit in December last year and more importantly explores the broader trends in climate policy globally. While it is premature to make single track recommendations on global policy frameworks, the paper explores how, in the aftermath of the Copenhagen summit, …
A policy shift is evident as the Environment Minister seeks to drop the option of equal per capita entitlement of atmospheric commons.ONCE again, barely a month and a half after the Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Indian government
The threat of climate change is now overwhelming the dialogue on forest policy. Forests, like other ecosystems, will be affected by temperature increase. But the dimension that is receiving much more attention is their role as a store for carbon. Forests hold more carbon than the atmosphere, and the interchange …
The negotiating table in the next international meet on climate change will miss two prominent faces. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2006, resigned on February 18 to join a private consultancy. The Indian prime minister’s special envoy for climate change, …
India and China have both agreed to be listed in the chapeau, or introductory text, of the Copenhagen Accord, implying that both nations participated in the negotiations that produced the document and that they stand by it. Informing Parliament of the government's communication to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate …
India and China today formally backed the Climate Change Accord hammered out in Copenhagen last year calling for voluntary cut in greenhouse gas emissions. Both the countries today submitted official letters to the UN Climate Change Secretariat saying that they agreed to being listed in the preamble of the Accord …
INDIA and China have decided to formally back the Copenhagen Accord worked out at the climate summit in December. While neither India nor China have said that they would
Most discussions about using international institutions to address climate change focus narrowly on the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, many other international institutions also have a significant role to play in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change. This paper examines the …
This paper sets out an assessment of the latest targets and intended actions for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, which have been submitted by countries to the Appendices of the Copenhagen Accord. These targets and intended actions are quantified and assessed in terms of global emissions to provide an understanding …
The commitment to provide new finance in support of climate change actions in developing countries was one of the few areas where tangible progress was made at the Copenhagen COP meeting. In light of this, securing a system that supports such financial flows to developing countries is an immediate challenge …
THERE is confusion still about the future of the Copenhagen Accord, the deal reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. While industrialized countries want the accord to be the basis of future negotiations, developing countries, including India and China, are distancing themselves from the accord. Their main criticism is the accord …
