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. …
Rich and poor countries have to give ground to get a deal in Copenhagen; then they must focus on setting a carbon price AT A time when they are not short of pressing problems to deal with, the presence of 100-odd world leaders at the two-week meeting that starts in …
Q&A;: Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests Leslie D'Monte & Kirtika Suneja / New Delhi December 5, 2009, 0:15 IST Jairam RameshAhead of the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh clarified India
The FCPF Charter (Article 17) requires that the Facility be subject to periodic evaluations including a mid-term evaluation no later than two years after the Facility is declared operational. This draft note contains (i) steps for developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the evaluation of the FCPF in view …
In Nature India, Pew's Namrata Patodia explains why India should be part of a global climate deal. for full text: http://www.nature.com/nindia/ 2009/091203/full/nindia.2009.348.html
Green hopes: Chennai delegates to the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen hand over a statement of expectations to Chennai Mayor M. Subramanian at the British Deputy High Commission in Chennai on Tuesday. CHENNAI: From academics and researchers to students and activists, the city of Chennai will have a diverse representation …
Parliament would be discussing the issue of climate change weeks ahead of a crucial meeting in the Copenhagen to decide ways and means to tackle the phenomenon of global warming. A special discussion has been scheduled in the Lok Sabha for Thursday where the government is expected to state its …
The Copenhagen Accord is a term to refer to a series of decisions adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, in particular the following two decisions adopted in accordance with the Bali Roadmap. The first is the CMP Decision under the Kyoto Protocol …
As the United States and other developed countries have enacted or are in the process of developing legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions post-2012, their policymakers are under increasing pressure from domestic constituencies to include trade measures as part of climate policy. This working paper analyzes relevant measures in emerging …
The history of financial support for developing countries is seen by many as littered with disappointments and broken promises that have eroded trust to an unprecedented level. Whatever financial regime is to emerge from the Copenhagen Climate Conference, it will have to remedy this situation. This is highly unlikely without …
This discussion paper on Industry Sector Approaches to Climate Change is intended to assist negotiators, policymakers and other interested parties in the definition, development and implementation of sectoral approaches. In doing so, it seeks to provide a broad introduction to non-specialists on the subject of sectoral approaches.
Even the most enthusiastic climate advocate would have been disappointed with the outcome of the climate change conference held in Copenhagen. To have expected something like a new, detailed, legal treaty would have been naive; the Conference was always about long-term signals and overall market sentiment and not about short-term …
The commitments made by countries to cut carbon emissions have put the world on the threshold of hitting the target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees C. This report, 'Deciding our future in Copenhagen: will the world rise to the challenge of climate change', says that …
As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting convenes in Copenhagen, Denmark, intellectual property (IP) rights remain a highly contentious issue that threatens the long-term prospects of these negotiations. Meaningful and sustainable reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions necessitate further innovation and deployment of low-carbon ("clean") technologies …
Extreme weather events are generally expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to global climate change. They have the potential to significantly undermine progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Global Climate Risk Index 2010 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the …
This report contains the proceedings of an Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change - hosted by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in collaboration with the UN University - Institute of Advanced Studies Traditional Knowledge Initiative (UNU-IAS TKI) and other partners. The Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change was held …
The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC by its decision 9.CP.2, 3/CP.5 and 18/CP.8, requested that Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) submit national inventory data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by sources and removals by sinks.
The purpose of this guidebook is to serve as guidance for those interested in developing a land-use change and forestry projects and bioenergy projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It also provides material on the voluntary markets.
This report considers the measures that have been and might be undertaken to promote environmental co-benefits from REDD. Such measures may be linked to decisions on financing. The report surveys the measures that are found in existing REDD initiatives, including in the proposed UNFCCC REDD mechanism itself. It considers the …
Climate change is a serious risk to poverty reduction and threatens to undo decades of development efforts. As the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development states,
The 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP 15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Copenhagen from the 7th to the 18th of December, 2009. At this CoP, agreements were to be finalised in two sets of parallel negotiations.
