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. …
In October 2008, the World Bank Group (WBG) adopted the Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (SFDCC). The document was developed in consultation with, and endorsed by, governments of 185 member countries. The Strategic Framework guides the Bank Group
Climate change is global in its causes and consequences. Through advanced modelling, patterns of change in the world climate have been observed over time. These model results have shown that compared to the pre-Industrial era, the world temperature has warmed by half a degree centigrade. The major causes for this …
Climate change would appear to be a less important question during an economic downturn, but as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has observed, a well thought-out fiscal stimulus can address both the problems through green growth. President-elect Barack Obama shares that view and his promise of opening a
The developed countries have refused to share a portion of the profits they make from the international carbon trade to replenish a fund meant to help poor and developing countries adapt to climate change. With the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting ending in Poland on a bleak …
The climate change conference in Poznan, which ended last week, would be remembered for little else but the activation of the Adaptation Fund a year after it was set up. Developing countries, including India to some extent, can now send proposals to the Fund for projects to safeguard vulnerable communities …
At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in Poznan. By Chandra Bhushan, Mario D
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN (POLAND): At the U.N. climate talks which finished in the early hours of Saturday, the divide between rich and poor nations was obvious in their differing views of what has been achieved here.
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN (POLAND): As the U.N. climate talks wound down here on Friday evening, developing countries are celebrating the small success of operationalising an Adaptation Fund, even while expressing frustration about the progress toward a post-2012 treaty to fight climate change.
By Marianne de Nazareth Oxfam erected 10 human ice sculptures to remind negotiators of the impact climate change is already having, on poor people around the world... Amidst all the negotiations among countries, the heavy purposeful footfall of 11,600-odd delegates from across the globe through the enormous halls everyday, the …
POZNAN: The high-level segment of the 14th meet of the UN climate convetion (COP-14) began on Thursday in the background of distrust and suspicion that has dogged this meeting from day one. Though UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon began the plenary session by calling for a Green New Deal, his …
The classical have and have not divide is destined to turn the climate change summit here into a failure. Forget identifying the elements that would be negotiated in Copenhagen next winter, there is a strong possibility that rich industrialized countries or Annex 1 countries could even tinker with the set …
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN: The mood at the United Nations climate change talks here seem to reflect the weather. At the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meet in Bali last year, the sweltering weather was a convenient motif both for global warming and the heat of arguments as negotiators scrambled …
DOWN TO EARTH The time for postponement is over. The time to cut greenhouse gases is now. Or never. This week when climate change negotiators from across the world meet in the city of Poznan in Poland for the 14th conference of parties to the climate convention, they have a …
CSE asks two questions - What did the rich countries do to meet Kyoto commitments? - How do we all share growth and atmosphere equitably? Its the question at Poznan for the welfare of people and the planet: will the rich world responsible for the stock of emissions find the …
CSE's Press Release delivered by Sunita Narian is presented here. CSE charts an agenda for action in Poznan, calls for tough action to reduce emissions and an agreement based on equity The 14th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has begun on …
