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 …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Even before the dust has settled on the controversial Copenhagen climate deal, India is set to take the lead in pushing for a single legally binding treaty for access to and benefit sharing of biological resources at the 10th Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to be …
As a mark of its commitment to biodiversity conservation, India will host the eleventh Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October 2012. Called
After the Copenhagen Climate Summit the world still needs a fair, ambitious and binding treaty to protect people and nature from runaway climate change. This paper identifies important next steps governments should take on a path towards agreeing such a treaty. First, it assesses the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate …
The real value of the climate process is its impact on the ideas on what it means to be a good global citizen I have just returned after performing at the climate circus in Copenhagen. Like all sensible columnists, I will reserve my remarks on why the outcome was entirely …
Mr Todd Stern, the US special envoy on Climate Change, decided to make public certain things he just realised . He announced within an hour of reaching Copenhagen, “If you care about the science -- and we do -- there's no way to solve this problem by giving the major …
The Copenhagen Conference of the Parties is expected to be a major turning point in negotiations and action dealing with global climate change. While the time available for arriving at a binding legal agreement seems limited, there is every reason to hope that we would reach an outcome that significantly …
CSE analysis of the leaked so-called "Danish proposal" to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Says that this would commit countries to very little other than continued negotiations, and would drop most of the key principles of the Kyoto Protocol. For full analysis: http://www.cseindia.org/equitywatch/pdf/danish_proposal.pdf See Also: Document: The leaked Danish proposal. http://www.cseindia.org/equitywatch/pdf/danish_proposal1.pdf …
In this draft text, the outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention is envisaged as a package consisting of a core decision and thematic decisions further elaborating enhanced action for the full, effective and sustained implementation of the Convention. …
The Copenhagen Accord is a term to refer to a series of decisions adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, in particular the following two decisions adopted in accordance with the Bali Roadmap. The first is the CMP Decision under the Kyoto Protocol …
The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC by its decision 9.CP.2, 3/CP.5 and 18/CP.8, requested that Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) submit national inventory data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by sources and removals by sinks.
The Bangkok and Barcelona negotiations demonstrated that the international climate negotiations have yet to reach the level of maturity required for states to adopt a legally binding instrument. Disappointing as this may be, an analysis of provisions and instruments that are not legally binding in the formal sense, in their …
This brief paper, identifies key elements for a successful and possible outcome in Copenhagen. These include a clear set of follow-on negotiations to complete a legally binding agreement. This process could be achieved in two stages - at continuation of the COP 15 Copenhagen session six months later (a so-called …
