Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Dr. Amit Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 28/05/2025. The applicant has raised a grievance against setting up of a tyre pyrolysis plant by M/s Adideva Carbon LLP. According to the applicant, the tyre pyrolysis plant has …
How does the UNFCCC select its various locations for its annual climate change meets? What I am hinting at is, why Cancun? Why, for that matter, Copenhagen, Poznan or Bali? I have been told that cities vie for the honour, just like a sporting event such as the Olympics or …
I have reached Cancun few hours’ back to attend the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP-16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have been greeted with news that can only be characterised as bad or worse. The most talked about of these is the ‘all-or-nothing’ position …
The post-2012 emissions reduction commitments for Annex 1 countries under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) are presently going nowhere. Japan had fired the first salvo when in the opening plenary, it categorically stated its opposition to the second commitment period of KP. Now, countries like Australia, Canada, and some European nations …
Cancun (Mexico), 5 Dec: As the slow-moving talks on combating climate change enter their final stretch here, top UN scientist Mr RK Pachauri has warned governments against delaying mitigation action, though he remained optimistic about
THE facilitating text put forward by the chair of the ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action, or the Bali track of the negotiations, did not find favour with any of the countries as a possible negotiating text, though the only country that spoke out against the text was …
IN HIS speech to Parliament during his historic visit to India, President Barack Obama detailed his vision for a US-India global partnership to meet global challenges
Germanwatch, a German-based non-profit, research organisation published its Global Climate Risk Index-2011 in Cancun Saturday identifying Bangladesh as one of the top nations mostly vulnerable to climate change. The sixth CRI (Down 10) of Germanwatch was published on the sideline of the global climate conference Saturday on the basis of …
Closed-Door Meetings Begin On Scrutiny Of Mitigation Actions New Delhi: The Cancun climate change conference has begun to put the horse before the cart, getting into closed-door meetings on international scrutiny of mitigation actions when the rich countries are yet to disclose their emission targets. In a move reminiscent of …
EU, G-77 Back Proposal To Set Up Mechanism For Tech Transfer To Check Climate INDIA has scored a major success at the Cancun climate change talks when its negotiators managed the backing of EU and G-77 for its proposal to set up a mechanism for technology transfer to deal with …
In the opening plenary at United Nations climate conference in Cancun, Japan tried to justify why it wanted to withdraw from the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol-currently the only international agreement that binds member countries to limiting their emissions. As is it, Indian environmentalists are not expecting any
The Cancun climate negotiations have turned steamy and a bit murky very early into the two week talk-fest. The ghost of Copenhagen seemed to loom over the discussions. Rumours of host Mexico doing what the Danes attempted
A new report from the UN Environment Programme says even if all countries strictly adhered to their current pledges to cut down greenhouse gas emissions, it would still not be enough to keep the global average rise in temperatures to below 2 degree Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, as is …
Japan's refusal to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 has led to a major uproar at the climate change conference here, with developing countries criticising Tokyo
India wants an eight-point pledge from the US and other developed countries at Cancun before yielding to their demand that developing nations must agree to international consultation and analysis (ICA) for monitoring domestic climate actions. A strategy paper on New Delhi's stand at the conference says that India has agreed, …
