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. …
India's first integrated solar housing project is complete. This is a milestone and trendsetter in present times as it revolves around a concern for extending the life span of natural resources while at the same time providing human comfort, safety and productivity Amid the depleting wilderness of an upcoming township …
The plausible spectre of large numbers of people migrating from coastal regions, and of entire populations abandoning small island countries due to rising sea levels makes it vitally important for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to come up with a strong adaptation strategy at its Copenhagen conference …
A United Nations body working on climate change has rejected a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project proposal submitted by Tata Chemicals, a Tata Group firm. Meanwhile, data with multilateral agency shows that Indian entities withdrew as many as six applications for projects related to cutting carbon emission, in 2008. The …
As the fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, India has an important role to play in the global response to climate change. As they do every December, world officials gathered in Poznan this time for the United Nations conference on climate change. They had come to advance the negotiations …
India had last year announced a National Action Plan on Climate Change which primarily focuses on sustainable development and optimum use of natural resources like solar energy Terming the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a
This working paper summarizes key innovations and challenges of the Clean Technology Fund. It analyzes the investment plans that the Fund has endorsed to date, and makes the case for greater emphasis on institutional capacity and governance in program design.
China's Ningxia Federal Intertrade Company has submitted Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) proposals to disseminate 34,000 solar cookers in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, aimed at reducing the amount of CO2 released from coal-fired stoves.
This year will see an intensive round of international negotiations, culminating in the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December as governments thrash out a deal to combat climate change. Greenpeace calls on governments gathering in Copenhagen for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Summit in December 2009, …
If fundamental climate change mitigation and adaptation goals are to be met, international climate negotiations must include agriculture. Agriculture and climate change are linked in important ways, and this brief focuses on three: climate change will have large effects on agriculture, but precisely where and how much are uncertain; agriculture …
This paper summarises the importance of wetlands in relation to climate change, as a basis for examining their potential role in the measures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) being discussed under the Kyoto Protocol. The question is addressed also in relation to relevant aspects of other …
Climate Change has become an urgent and pervasive preoccupation across the globe. It is a global challenge which requires an ambitious global response. India and other developing countries would be among those most seriously impacted by the consequences of Climate Change. It is for this reason that India, along with …
Delhi Metro, the first railway project in the world to be registered for carbon credits by the United Nations, has been certified to have prevented over 90,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere. Calling it their contribution in the fight against global warming, the Metro officials …
The negotiations held at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reveals there is a wide gap between the developed and developing nations which has threatened the equity related components of the Convention. It has been felt that there is a need to follow the principle of common but …
The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) recently carried out an analysis of the extent to which the EU (and its then 15 Member States) fulfilled the solemn promises made to developing countries in the so-called 'Bonn Declaration' of 23 July 2001. Eight years ago, at the UNFCCC Conference of …
Will India still be the world's fourth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the New Year? This is one more from our own wish-list that found echoes from corporate India when we asked around. A greener, cleaner India Inc. that actively seeks alternative fuel, invests in rainwater harvesting, works out of …
