COP 19 (Warsaw)

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding violation of environmental norms by a tyre pyrolysis plant, village Sakauti, Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, 28/05/2025

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 …

Options for enhancing REDD+ collaboration in the context of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

This report evaluates options for how countries that are parties to the Paris Agreement can cooperate to accelerate the implementation of REDD+. The five presented options, summarized below, are not mutually exclusive and can be combined to deliver a blended flow of finance in support of the implementation of REDD+ …

Climate change: Best practices, challenges and lessons learned from existing financial instruments at all levels that address the risk of loss and damage

This document compiles submissions made by several Parties and organizations, with the aim to encourage comprehensive risk management by the diffusion of information related to financial instruments and tools, addressing the risks of loss and damage, associated to climate change. A number of valuable lessons are reported from the application …

Climate change: Best practices, challenges and lessons learned from existing financial instruments at all levels that address the risk of loss and damage

This document compiles submissions made by several Parties and organizations, with the aim to encourage comprehensive risk management by the diffusion of information related to financial instruments and tools, addressing the risks of loss and damage, associated to climate change. A number of valuable lessons are reported from the application …

BASIC Nations Chalk Out Plan for Lima

Brazil, South Arica, India and China seek to craft a common position for climate negotiations. Meeting for the first time since the UN-sponsored climate change negotiations in Warsaw last November, ministers of the four BASIC countries—Brazil, South Arica, India and China—sought to craft a common position for the next round …

Green Ministers to Talk Climate in Berlin, Chalk out Global Pact

Discussion will focus on long-term goals, national contributions to mitigate harmful effects of climate change Environment ministers and their representatives from 29 countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in climate negotiations will meet in Berlin for two days starting July 14 even as increasing instances of unprecedented heat waves …

India ready with draft policy to reduce emissions from deforestation

Taking forward an agreed framework of the 2013 Warsaw climate conference, India has come out with a draft national policy on 'reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (popularly known as REDD+ initiative) which will enable local communities to get financial incentives for increasing forest cover. The REDD+ initiative is …

Beijing's bad air would be step up for smoggy Delhi

India has the world's highest death rate because of chronic respiratory diseases, and it has more deaths from asthma than any other nation, according to WHO In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked …

Sustainable transport on course while Warsaw wobbles

A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland, and progress on the post 2015 sustainable development agenda and their significance for land transport. The report discusses the outcomes of the COP 19 Climate Conference in Warsaw and the significance for land …

Moily to Seed a Change, Likely to OK GM Crops

New minister to allow field trials, reversing stand of predecessors Ramesh and Natarajan Environment Minister Veerappa Moily is expected to cast his vote in favour of allowing genetically modified (GM) food crops in the country, overturning the position of his immediate predecessors — Jayanthi Natarajan and Jairam Ramesh. Moily’s support …

One world of climate and trade - II

Does the Indian government's loud voice in international negotiations lead to results? At the recent Word Trade Organisation (WTO) meet in Bali, the Indian government went, with all guns blazing, to defend the rights of the country's farmers and to secure food security for millions of poor people. It opposed …

U.N. launches Green Climate Fund with little in its coffers

The Green Climate Fund, designed as the United Nations' most important funding body in the battle on climate change in developing nations, launched its headquarters on Wednesday in South Korea, but uncertainty over finances clouded the event. The launch was largely symbolic, as the Fund, set up by developed nations …

U.N. carbon offset market seen 'in a coma' for years after Warsaw

The U.N.'s carbon offset market is likely to remain "in a coma" for years, project developers said, after countries failed to agree on measures to encourage demand at last week's climate talks in Warsaw. Investment under the U.N.'s $315 billion Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has ground to a halt as …

Developing nations lose out in climate change talks: CSE

According to CSE, the key expectations out of the recently concluded Warsaw climate talks were three-fold Developing countries have lost out on all the key areas of UN climate change negotiations at Warsaw as the developed nations managed to shift the burden of reducing emissions on to the emerging economies …

India Manages to Keep HFCs out of Climate Talks

India can claim a measure of victory at Warsaw as it succeeded in keeping the discussion on reducing the use of refrigerant gases with high global warming potential, or hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), out of climate change negotiations. The final decision at the UN sponsored climate talks in the Polish capital-—”Further advancing …

Warsaw climate summit pledges funds for afforestation

The climate talks in Warsaw may not have come up to the expectation of poor nations but it ended on a hopeful note on Sunday with negotiators taking a significant step towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation by agreeing to result-based payment to developing countries which cut carbon by …

Developing nations lose out in climate change talks: CSE

Developing countries have lost out on all the key areas of UN climate change negotiations at Warsaw as the developed nations managed to shift the burden of reducing emissions on to the emerging economies like India and China, a leading green NGO said today. According to the Centre for Science …

Climate Deal Moves a Step Forward, But Fails to Resolve Major Issues

After almost 30 hours of over time, the United Nations sponsored Warsaw climate change talks came to a close with a deal that failed to resolve key contentious issues but managed to keep every country at the table. The intense-and-sometimes acrimonious negotiations yielded modest agreement on an international mechanism to …

New faultlines widen at UN climate talks

Fraught UN climate talks revealed growing frustration this week among vulnerable nations and observers with the political stance of emerging economies like China and India in the battle to stave off dangerous Earth warming. As the global balance of economic and political clout shifts, the world of climate negotiations is …

New faultlines widen at UN climate talks

WARSAW: Fraught UN climate talks revealed growing frustration this week among vulnerable nations and observers with the political stance of emerging economies like China and India in the battle to stave off dangerous Earth warming. As the global balance of economic and political clout shifts, the world of climate negotiations …

Warsaw talks results acceptable but not satisfying: China

BEIJING: China, the world's largest carbon emitter, on Sunday said it was not satisfied with but still accepted the results of the climate talks in Poland with the participating nations reaching a compromise to pave the way to a new climate treaty in Paris in 2015. "There are many issues …

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