Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Naresh Vashisth Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/04/2025. Issue raised in the application is encroachment of land of village Amer which comes under reserved forest and "Vankhand Amer-54 of Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary." The Assistant …
This briefing note aims to facilitate a better understanding of the different options available to the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation process.
In David and Goliath stand-offs public sympathy—and cheering—is always reserved for the heroic small man who takes on the big bad guy. The David usually represents valour in the face of heavy odds. That is how the Indian pharmaceuticals industry projected itself when it began producing generics medicine at a …
The Environment Ministers of the four BASIC countries namely, Brazil, South Africa, India and China met in New Delhi to assess the post Cancun climate change policy and actions at the global and national level and discuss coordination going forward.
The Japanese Satoumi concept of managing coastal resources depends crucially on the bottom-up involvement of local communities. http://icsf.net/icsf2006/uploads/publications/samudra/pdf/english/issue_58/art01.pdf
The purpose of this guide is to assist developing country negotiators and others who are working on REDD-plus. The guide is divided into three parts: Part I considers REDD-plus in the negotiations; Part II contains general negotiating tips for new REDD-plus negotiators and others ; and Part III contains UNFCCC …
Unlike previous UN climate meets, the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP) held in Cancun in Mexico witnessed very few strong words being tossed between developed and developing countries till this magazine went to press. After Japan’s initial belligerence against any extension of Kyoto Protocol, China has shown surprising malleability for …
As I write this, some 24 hours are left to finalise the agreement at the 16th Conference of Parties to the climate change convention being held in Cancun. At this moment it seems the predictable deadlock in talks will continue. Like all other global climate meetings, the world remains deeply …
T. Jayaraman Saving the integrity of the multilateral process in climate negotiations, with an outcome agreed to by both the global North and the South, is perhaps the most significant gain from Cancun. For several months now the oft-repeated litany was that little was expected of the climate negotiations at …
Meena Menon Mexico is making some last-ditch efforts at a consensus CANCUN: President of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Patricia Espinosa on Wednesday decided to constitute smaller groups headed by ministers to discuss contentious issues at the climate change …
The 2009 Copenhagen climate summit may in retrospect prove a critical turning point in the evolution of the international climate change effort. For a decade and a half, the principal aim under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) had been to establish, and then to extend, a legally-binding …
INDIA failed Kasaragod again. Despite letters to the Centre from Kerala chief minister and forest minister pleading that India support the global ban on endosulfan, industry lobbyists continue to hold sway at international forums. In 2003, several families in Kasaragod district of Kerala were found victims of aerial spraying of …
Ministers and representatives from 35 countries, regional groupings and UN organisations met in New Delhi and have called for an agreement on a Technology Mechanism at the COP-15 in Cancun. The Ministerial was hosted jointly by the Governments of India and Mexico and UNDESA.
It is in the interest of developing countries to agree to legally binding national emission limits alone to secure their fair share of the global carbon budget. Climate change is a difficult subject for multilateral cooperation because of the limitations in developing a shared assessment of a challenge posed by …
India is known for its rich heritage of biodiversity. In biological diversity parlance, India is one of the 17 mega-diverse countries in the world. With only 2.4% of the world
Mministers and other top officials made progress on establishing the details of how hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid will be raised and distributed. The informal meeting in Geneva, co-hosted by Switzerland and Mexico, aimed to clarify the status of the billions of dollars pledged by developed countries …
New Delhi: Visiting Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada on Sunday met environment minister Jairam Ramesh and is understood to have a dialogue on global issues such as climate change in the run-up to the UN climate meet at Cancun later this year.Besides climate change, Okada and Ramesh are also understood …
Mexico is working overtime to save the upcoming UN Climate Change Summit in Cancun from collapse. Patricia Espinosa, minister of foreign affairs of Mexico and the chairperson of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in her recent visit to India …
The statement by Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests at 7th MEF meeting, Rome, 29-30th June, 2010. He stressed on the need for interlinking MRV of climate mitigating actions to ensure that developing nations have "equitable" access to carbon space. Statement of Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment …
While developing country parties are worried with the disbursement of fast-track climate fund committed by developed countries in Copenhagen, a new institutional arrangement for financing came into focus in the ongoing climate change meeting here in Bonn today. Delegates of the country parties of the UNFCCC discussed the issue in …
