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" …
On april 6, the world's second largest oil company, bp Amoco, became the world's largest solar energy company. It spent us $45 million to win control of Solarex, preparing itself for life after oil. But the timing does not make sense. Oil prices are plunging like never before. In real …
The concept of joint implementation as a way to implement climate change mitigation projects in another country has been controversial ever since its inception. Developing countries have raised numerous issues at the project-specific technical level, and broader concerns having to do with equity and burden sharing. This paper summarizes the …
after maintaining a prolonged suspense, Russia, the world's second largest producer of greenhouse gas ( ghg ) emissions, has signed the Kyoto Protocol. Countries already party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( un fccc ) had to sign the protocol negotiated at Kyoto on December 11, …
SPAINISH environment minister Isabel Tocino has said that increasing nuclear power output might become a part of Spain's climate change policy. In a paper presented to parliament, the minister said that upgrading nuclear resources was one way Spain could meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments. Spain is the first European Union …
THE price of fuel oil has always played a major role in shaping global events in the 20th Century. Many would like to link the collapse of the communist bloc to the big tumble that the price of oil took in 1984. A fall therefore in the price of oil …
DECADES of industrial growth, while making our lives easy and comfortable, has also degraded the environment severely. Today, we are paying the price for it: global warming has reared its ugly head. Already, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (co2) are 30 per cent higher than the pre-industrial levels. In 1995, …
Africa succumbs to CDM At a meeting organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi on October 23, African ministers of environment agreed on a common position on the Clean Development Mechanism, one of the "mechanisms" established as part of the Kyoto Protocol. The ministers agreed that Clean …
THE assignment of responsibilities to Annex I (industralised) countries according to their contribution to climate change has been a critical issue haunting climate negotiations. Brazil first proposed a "budget" concept on historical emissions at the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate (AGBM) meet held in July-August 1997. It found …
THE Non Aligned Movement summit, held recently in South Africa, debated the Kyoto Protocol which requires industrialised nations to cut down on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 5.2 per cent between 2008-2012. The NAM members, comprising 113 nations across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, called on the developed …
As Parties to the Climate Convention EU Member States have opted for a joint fulfilment of post-2000 greenhouse gas emission reduction obligations. No agreement could be reached on a joint EU target before the distribution of the burden of emission reductions among Member States had been agreed upon. This paper …
THE issue of land use change and forestry (LUCF), and its treatment as "sinks", has always loomed large in climate change negotiations in the past. It was among the hotly-debated subjects in the lead-up to the Kyoto meeting in December, 1997, and was subsequently addressed in Articles 3.3 and 3.4 …
IN DECEMBER 1997, the Kyoto Protocol on the Climate Change Convention was adopted merely five years after the adoption of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). The rapidity with which these treaties have been negotiated and adopted and the number of countries involved (more than 173 countries have ratified …
THE Kyoto Protocol is only a first step - that too a timid one - to stabilise the atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to a non-dangerous level. The protocol stipulates GHG reduction of 5.2 per cent in the industrialised world. As relevant reductions have already been achieved through the economic …
A FEW months prior to Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the US Senate passed a resolution to ratify a protocol in the Climate Change Convention "all nations should be required to act within the same time frame". The Senate resolution was substantiated by the US delegation in Kyoto with frequent references …
The Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention is the first step towards defining the emissions reduction targets of industralised countries. However, as a first step it falls short of expectations." Under the protocol, between the years 2008 and 2012, industralised countries are expected to cut their overall carbon emissions …
Taking the lead Developing countries must take the lead in proposing a system of entitlements, and North-South trading, which is both ecologically effective and socially just THE KEY ISSUES PREVENTlNG, global warming raises a very serious question for the world"s nations. It means putting a cap or a limit on …
CLIMATE negotiations and international climate policy are very recent compared to other policy issues. Thus, one cannot expect all problems to be solved at once. While the question of efficient mitigation is dealt with prominently in the Kyoto Protocol, the inequitable distribution of current emissions is widely taken for granted. …
HERE'S some news for developing nations to ponder over till the next climate change conference in Argentina in November. South Korea has "volunteered" to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the year 2018 and has voiced its desire to do so to its strong neighbour Japan. With this South Korea …
'There is no consensus among G-77 nations' espen ronneberg, counsellor, Permanent Mission to the United Nations of the Republic of the Marshall Islands The US expects developing nations to take their word for the workability of the emissions trading scheme without explaining how it would work. There is no de …
On entitlements: Each human being is entitled to a share of the global commons. This entitlement should not be dependent on wealth. However, it is difficult to get people to agree on the principle of per capita entitlement. Countries want to continue with current levels of emissions. The Montreal Protocol …
