Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Ujjwal Sharma Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/01/2025. An application was registered on the basis of a news item titled "1 Kodo poisoning behind elephant deaths in MPs Bandhavgarh All you need to know" …
NEW DELHI: India's raucous democracy, endemic poverty and soaring economic ambition make curbs on greenhouse gas emissions a hard sell, even as global pressure mounts on the government to do more on climate change. New Delhi says its priority must be economic growth to lift millions out of poverty, while …
While there is no consensus on the exact definition of "terrorism", the word is typically used to describe ideologically motivated acts of violence with the intention to intimidate governments or civilians. Acts supposedly meeting these criteria and committed in the name of environmental causes are described as "eco-terrorism" by law …
A wall of heat and sulphur from a towering furnace stoked to 1,500 degrees Celsius hits onlookers at POSCO's Pohang plant in South Korea amid the din of coal and iron ore rattling into vats of molten metal. Pohang's oldest furnace, with a 35-year history, helped POSCO grow into the …
Italy's biggest utility Enel will make considerable profits and cut costs under emissions trading schemes in Europe and the Kyoto Protocol, even while it boosts its coal plant fleet, its head of carbon strategy told Reuters. The European Union's emissions trading scheme is the bloc's main policy to fight climate …
Japan has called for emerging economies to set mid-term targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, aimed at bringing them into a structure of binding levels to combat global warming. "Emerging economies should be engaged to the middle level binding measures, clearly not the same as those of developed economies," a …
This report presents an assessment of progress of European countries towards achieving the objectives of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and their emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol. The report analyses both actual progress, based on historic trends of greenhouse gas emissions, and projected progress, based on …
Strong economic and political motives, combined with a partly positive and partly silent NGO community have contributed greatly to the present strong commitment towards the use of CCS in Norway. Overall, the strength of this commitment has had a negative effect on efforts to reduce the GHG emissions in sectors …
The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto Protocol with its provisions for trade and investment in joint projects. …
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests in its meeting held on 20th August, 2007, decided to take up for examination the aspects relating to Global Warming and its Impact on India and report thereon. In this regard the Committee heard the views of the …
This paper analyzes institutional design, organizational capacity, and interplay in markets for ecosystem services. It examines the development of a market-based mechanism to commercialize forest carbon in Mexico through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This is compared with a State-run carbon forestry program aiming to provide emission rights to voluntary, …
The Supplementary Draft Report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review should be read in conjunction with the Draft Report released on 4 July 2008. Is it possible to secure effective international action to reduce the risks of dangerous climate change to acceptable levels, presuming that Australia would play its proportionate …
Yu Qingtai, Ambassador and Special Representative, Climate Change Talks, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China talks to Pradip Saha about developing country imperatives in climate talks in face of increasing pressure from developed countries to increase commitments On sudden EU attempt to divide developing countries during Accra meet
Development of alternative energy should create more than 20 million jobs around the world in coming decades as governments adopt policies to address the depletion of resources, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. Some 2.3 million people around the world already work in alternative energy jobs with half …
Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago on Thursday unveiled perhaps the most aggressive plan of any major American city to reduce heat-trapping gases. The blueprint would change the city
The prospect of US regulation of climate-warming carbon dioxide has sparked a pre-emptive outcry from the Chamber of Commerce, which warned of bureaucratic gridlock if proposed limits are put in place. In a report to be released on Tuesday, the pro-business organization projected such regulation would affect more than 1 …
