Counter affidavit on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in OA No 580 of 2022 Mukesh Singh Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others. The report dated May 13, 2025 related to the Khadia Opencast Coal Mine Expansion Project located in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, and …
The lesson for India after Durban is that it needs to formulate an approach that combines attention to industrialised countries’ historical responsibility for the problem with an embrace of its own responsibility to explore low carbon development trajectories. This is both ethically defensible and strategically wise. Ironically, India’s own domestic …
A summit meeting of heads of government is needed to strengthen global ambition on climate change — we should start preparing now, says Michael Jacobs.
New Delhi The Indian forest cover has shrunk. And there is no one to announce the data, as environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has not found time to release it. The silence is in tune with the way the ministry of environment and forests has worked in the last five months …
The Durban conference in December 2011 marked a breakthrough in international efforts to combat climate change. The EU and India played a key role in final negotiations that unlocked the pact on the last morning of the conference. Together, we found the compromise that provided the basis to launch negotiations …
A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, and their significance for the land transport sector.
The government on Tuesday clarified that India will not sign any legally-binding global agreement for emission reduction. Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan informed the Rajya Sabha that the country will not be signing any legally-binding norms as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth. “There is no question …
India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said today. "There is no question of signing a legally binding agreement at this point of our development. We need to make sure that …
India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Tuesday. “There is no question of signing a legally binding agreement at this point of our development. We need to make sure …
In 1990, China was responsible for only 10% of annual emissions. But in 2010, it contributed some 27% In 1992, when the world met to discuss an agreement on climate change, equity was a simple concept: sharing the global commons – the atmosphere in this case – equally among all. …
According to press reports: Environment and Forests Minister Hasan Mahmud said at a seminar on Thursday that Bangladesh loses 1.5 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as more natural disasters caused by climate change impacts hit the country now." The negative impacts include flood, draught, salinity, cyclone, and sea …
New Delhi: India has not undertaken legally binding commitments to take absolute greenhouse gas emission reduction targets at Durban, Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan informed RS on Wednesday in a statement tabled in the house on the recently concluded UN climate negotiations in South Africa. “It (the Durban …
New Delhi India stuck to its position of opposing the emissions trading scheme (ETS) of the European Union even as the EU’s highest court upheld the union’s right to impose its cap-and-trade carbon trading scheme on international airlines that use European airports. Rejecting a suit brought by North American airlines, …
What do you need to visit a foreign city and deliver a lecture on climate change? A high-profile persona, an elite degree, and the right connections, perhaps. However, Sushila Sable, 48, an illiterate ragpicker from Kanjurmarg doesn’t have any of the above. But her concern towards clean garbage disposal, which …
European politicians are expected on Tuesday to vote through an amendment that could pave the way for direct intervention in the EU carbon market, which has sunk to record lows. Businesses and environmentalists have heaped pressure on the European Commission to bolster the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. It should be …
Mexico City's sleek new public bus system is attracting significant international funding in carbon credit sales, part of the capital's ongoing effort to reduce pollution and green up its smoggy image. The government of this sprawling metropolis of 9 million recently announced that the first phase of its rapid transit …
The decisions taken at the U.N. climate summit in Durban last week do not imply that India had to take binding commitments to reduce its emissions in absolute terms in 2020, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan told the Lok Sabha on Friday. She said the Indian delegation successfully resisted pressure from …
New Delhi, 16 Dec: Days after the Durban Climate Summit, the government today insisted that India has agreed to no legally-binding commitments to reduce its emissions in absolute terms in 2020. Environment minister Ms Jayanthi Natarajan told Parliament that India has already announced a domestic mitigation goal of reducing the …
Sri Lanka expressed disappointment at the inability of the global community to meet their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol at the recently concluded Climate Change Conference held in Durban, Environmental Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said. Sri Lanka presented four main points at the conference held in Durban, South Africa. Sri …
The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and acrimonious, as the world desperately searched for new ways to avoid the toughest of questions—how to drastically reduce emissions to keep the world somewhat within safe levels …
