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. …
After months of incremental progress on negotiating text for the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December, recent talks in Bangkok unearthed a deal breaker
Rajendra K. Pachauri says that India wants to be a constructive partner in Copenhagen negotiations on climate change. The country is taking domestic action even though it cannot accept mandatory emissions limits.
Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI DIPLOMATIC skirmishes between Beijing and New Delhi notwithstanding, India and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to cooperate on ways to fight climate change. They will also continue to work together in international climate deal negotiations. The agreement emphasised that the
India and other South Asian nations today said they would adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes emission cuts on developed countries, at the Copenhagen climate change summit in December. After the eighth meeting of SAARC environment ministers, Jairam Ramesh Union Minister for Environment & Forests, said members would adhere …
New Delhi: Faced with resistance from within and outside to his advocacy for a dramatic change of stand on climate change negotiations, environment minister Jairam Ramesh was in damage control mode on Tuesday. Backtracking on many of his controversial propositions, the environment minister denied that he had strayed from the …
New Delhi: Faced with resistance from within and outside to his advocacy for a dramatic change of stand on climate change negotiations, environment minister Jairam Ramesh was in damage control mode on Tuesday. Backtracking on many of his controversial propositions, the environment minister denied that he had strayed from the …
Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh today categorically stated that while India was prepared to discuss and periodically make public the implementation of its National Action Plan on climate change, it would never accept internationally legally binding emission reduction targets or commitments as part of any agreement or deal or …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: India will never accept internationally legally binding emission reduction targets or commitments as part of any agreement of or deal, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has said. In a statement here on Tuesday, Mr. Ramesh said that while India was prepared …
With each UNFCCC meeting, one is apprised of the galloping pace at which climate change is affecting the planet. Extremes of weather and natural disasters have become commonplace, with devastating floods in Africa and Asia, extreme cold or heat waves in Europe and the spectre of hurricanes in the Americas. …
The moment of truth will already be upon us in a few weeks. In mid-December 2009 delegates from practically all the countries of the world will meet in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations. It will perhaps be the biggest meeting that has ever taken place. The results of this …
Many countries that have made commitments under the Kyoto agreement will have problems meeting them. For most countries this will only be possible by resorting to
This paper highlights existing knowledge and information about a range of different types of mitigation support and outlines a structure for a future framework for MRV to provide greater accountability and transparency. Mitigation specific financial flows (i.e. aiming to limit emissions) are estimated to be in the range of 8 …
