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" …
sixteen rice millers of Burdwan and its adjoining districts in West Bengal have joined hands to sell carbon credits to developed nations by switching over to a non-polluting mode of power generation. If their plans come to fruition, they may reap financial rewards under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism …
The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for 3000 years. But all that Russia does is procrastinate over endorsing the Kyoto Protocol
It's that time of the year again when international circles start buzzing with talks of global warming and changing climate. Although the ninth Conference of Parties (CoP-9) to the 1992 un Framework Convention on Climate Change is round the corner, the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol remains as uncertain as …
the Kyoto Protocol is in trouble. Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it's not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian president Vladimir Putin and his aides at the recent World Climate Change Conference held in Moscow, …
The proposed deal in Cancun had to be rejected. What was proposed at the World Trade Organization talks would have been a deadly price for developing countries to pay. Therefore, for once, our leaders did well. They were prepared to negotiate together. They held together in the face of the …
even as Europe reels under an unprecedented heat wave, us President George Bush remains unconvinced about the harsh reality of climate change. On July 24 he launched a 10-year research programme, which will study long-term global climate variability and change. Environmental groups have termed it as a delaying tactic and …
after three years of debate, the world's first international market to sell and purchase greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions is finally being put in place. The European parliament has agreed to trade in emissions within the bloc and the Council of Ministers has given its final seal of approval. The eu …
The latest meeting on climate change did not bring the Kyoto Protocol any closer to being implemented. The protocol, established in 1997, asks industrialised countries to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide. Its coming into force now hinges on Russia's nod. There were, however, not many encouraging …
The Bush administration's agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore increasingly shrill alarms from an overstressed natural world. It is manifested in us attempts to sabotage constructive efforts in environmental negotiations, as Anju Sharma points this out in "Shucks & …
It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it seem like a distant event. The world has just seen an American-engineered war in which the un was sidelined and the us paid scant regard to the views of even its traditional allies. …
function opencover(){ var popurl="html/20030430_cover.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=450,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } America’s administrators have seriously slipped up. Today us foreign policy stands exposed in all its Neanderthal crudity. This comes as no surprise to those observing the superpower in the arena of global environmental negotiations although the mainstream media has done a remarkably good job …
Global warming is set to change the investment climate in the corporate world. A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the factors that will influence a company’s competitiveness and profitability. Investors are beginning to revalue …
The New Zealand government proposes to promote the development of two wind farms by providing them Kyoto Protocol climate change credits for the energy produced. While one is a 36-mega watt (mw) extension of TrustPower's Tararua wind farm, the other is a 40-80 mw project of state-owned Meridian Energy. Power …
Brazil has struck the largest carbon trading deal to date with the Dutch government. Brazil has sold 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions to the Dutch government as part of a project, which will help reduce over 21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the next …
Three green groups have filed a suit in a US district court alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dawdling over their 1999 petition on the use of the Clean Air Act to curb vehicular pollution. The EPA is not doing enough to protect the environment, contend environmental pressure …
