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. …
When parties and observers arrived in Copenhagen last December (2009), for two weeks of intense negotiations, it was already clear that no legally binding agreement was expected to be agreed upon, and there were many outstanding issues that required further work and negotiations. Nevertheless, a certain level of optimism surrounded …
The UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has published a briefing on the implications of the negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) for forest restoration. Prepared by Lera Miles, the briefing provides an update on negotiations under the UNFCCC, noting that the …
The author who has been in the forefront of negotiations for climate change has given a first hand account of the negotiations at Copenhagen and what needs to be done now. He vividly brings out the thought process and the stands taken by various countries also highlighting the outcome of …
After the Copenhagen Climate Summit the world still needs a fair, ambitious and binding treaty to protect people and nature from runaway climate change. This paper identifies important next steps governments should take on a path towards agreeing such a treaty. First, it assesses the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate …
The pervasive mistrust with which the Copenhagen Conference ended does not augur well for post-Copenhagen negotiations. This commentary explores existing fault lines and proposes creative ways of moving forward. The Copenhagen impasse, which is likely to continue, involved attempts by developed countries to overturn the template of historical responsibility and …
Obama has cut the legs out from under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in effect declaring that the US will do what it wants, but will not get further entangled in messy UN climate processes in 2010, says Jeffrey D Sachs TWO years of climate change negotiations have …
T. Jayaraman The strategy of the major developing nations has provided a reprieve from the danger of the breakdown of global negotiations. But their compromise highlights the dilemma of engaging the United States without allowing it to dictate the global climate agenda. It is evident that the Copenhagen climate summit …
It is easy to feel disappointed by the accord brokered last week by US President Barack Obama at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen. The document's broad outlines do not constitute a treaty, nor is it even clear whether it should technically be called a global …
In 2012, the movie, the earth as we know it is destroyed because of a sudden burst of solar flares that heat the planet's core, causing major shifts in tectonic plates. The result is cataclysmic tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes that wipe out most of life except for a modern fleet …
In any reasonable reckoning, the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit falls far short of what the nations of the world, particularly the industrialised countries, absolutely need to do to combat global warming. The Copenhagen Accord, the product of personal negotiations between President Obama and the political leaders of China, …
With no signs of a possible deal at the Climate Summit here, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that future negotiations on tackling the menace should be based on equitable burden sharing as enshrined in Kyoto Protocol and Bali mandate. Addressing the crucial final day of the summit, …
Copenhagen: The Copenhagen climate meeting, which brought together 115 world leaders to deliberate on the perils facing the world from growing emissions, is near its bitter end. The conference has ended with meaningless commitments
Discussions Go On For Extra Day As World Leaders Try To Salvage Summit Copenhagen: World leaders went into an extra night of discussions in a bid to hammer out a deal on climate change, prompting PM Manmohan Singh to delay his departure and huddle into discussions with US President Barack …
Two years of preparations. Two weeks of hectic negotiations. Presence of more than 110 high-profile heads of states. Nothing helped. The deal to save the world from catastrophic effects of climate change remains as elusive as ever. But no one, least of all host Denmark, wants to admit that the …
Urmi A Goswami COPENHAGEN HEADS of state of key countries worked into the wee hours of Friday morning while negotiators from 26 countries continued till daybreak in their attempts to put together a political declaration for the heads of states and governments to adopt on Friday. The momentum induced by …
US president addresses the UNFCCC Climate summit on 18th Dec 2009 i.e., on the final day of the talks. He believes that it's time for the nations and people of the world to come together behind a common purpose. And must choose action over inaction; the future over the past …
India must ensure that rigorous monitoring and reporting procedures are incorporated in any Copenhagen deal on REDD-Plus issues. THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007) has concluded that the forest sector is critical for addressing climate change and that reducing emissions from tropical deforestation is the dominant, immediate and …
