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. …
It has been a bumpy ride, with developed countries failing to make definite commitments and India hinting at a shift of stance. THE last leg of the climate change talks held in Barcelona, Spain, on November 2-6 in the run-up to the all-important 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to …
I will refrain from lamenting the total mismanagement of COP 15 and the untold daily misery and shoddy treatment that visitors, including certain Parties (UN parlance for participating governments), had to put up with in gaining entry to the conference. I will refrain from detailing the brutal stifling of the …
Pallavi Aiyar / Copenhagen December 18, 2009, 0:49 IST With last-ditch efforts on to save the Copenhagen talks on climate change from failure, the Danish Presidency today said there would be no Danish draft-II. The two-track process of negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and long-term cooperation agreement (LCA) would form …
The real value of the climate process is its impact on the ideas on what it means to be a good global citizen I have just returned after performing at the climate circus in Copenhagen. Like all sensible columnists, I will reserve my remarks on why the outcome was entirely …
Copenhagen: The endgame at the climate change battle has begun. The best option for India and developing countries, it became clear on Tuesday, is to ensure that the industrialized countries are not able to set grounds to kill Kyoto and rewrite the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in future …
HARDEV SANOTRA Minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh says India will ask the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to come up with verification norms for voluntary projects in developing countries under which "we would report the progress to the UN". But he ruled out any international monitoring …
A new proposal from AOSIS Alternative to the Danish Proposal and the BASIC draft. The Association of Small Island States (AOSIS) released a new, overarching proposal for fulfilling the mandates of the Bali Action Plan, and setting legally binding targets for developed countries post-2012. The draft sets out a pathway …
India has rejected United States advice that it put its voluntary offer to reduce carbon intensity on the table with commitments before the global community. Secretary of the ministry of finance Vijai Sharma told Indian reporters that there was "no possibility" India would put its voluntary commitments before the international …
THE Cabinet on Thursday cleared the Copenhagen negotiating position. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh told the Cabinet that India will stay firm on Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC resolutions at the climate change summit. The minister also assured his Cabinet colleagues that India would not accept the proposal for international scrutiny of …
In the warm-up here, the maximum buzz and heat has been around two contrasting drafts, one proposed by Denmark and the other by four large developing countries, including India, that have been doing the rounds to be considered as the possible outlines for the agreement coming out of Copenhagen. Both …
The largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened Monday, with organisers warning diplomats from 192 nations that this could be the last best chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming. The two-week conference, the climax of two years of contentious negotiations, …
Encouraging signals in the last few days notwithstanding, the opening day of the climate change conference saw a tempering down of expectations. A new suggestion of a three-layered outcome emerged
KEY CLIMATE negotiator and distinguished fellow at Teri, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, who along with Dr Pradipto Ghosh, had declined to go to Copenhagen, reversed the decision following a lengthy meeting with Union minister of environment Jairam Ramesh on Sunday. In an interview to Rashme Sehgal, Mr Dasgupta explained that his main …
JAIPUR: A 20-member delegation comprising farmers, activists, policy-makers and ecological experts left here on Sunday for Copenhagen under the banner,
So far the effort to tackle global warming has achieved little. Copenhagen offers the chance to do better, says Emma Duncan (interviewed here) THE mountain bark beetle is a familiar pest in the forests of British Columbia. Its population rises and falls unpredictably, destroying clumps of pinewood as it peaks …
