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 …
The G77+China group has threatened to walk out of climate talks if developed countries did not stop blocking the issue of Loss and Damage. The ultimatum was delivered by G77+China negotiator Juan Hoffmeister, who is leading the talks on the issue for the developing country block, at a closed door …
Hydro fluorocarbons (HFCs) — a family of greenhouse gases used as refrigerants —can be and should be handled right away under the Montreal Protocol, said the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, Todd Stern.He suggested that countries were merely delaying by talking of legal and other issues in moving the …
Warsaw: Controversial issue of handling Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), or climate-damaging refrigerant gas, is unlikely to get resolved in near future as both India and the US stuck to their respective positions on Monday, making a strong pitch for support from other nations.While India insisted that the issue must be kept out …
WARSAW: Though the ongoing climate talks has failed to bring cheer to developing countries as rich nations have, so far, not made any commitment to set aside a corpus to battle global warming, hope springs eternal for the negotiators. They are expecting that the high-level ministerial round may throw up …
Long drawn arguments through two days of almost continuous negotiations broke out over the key decisions that the Warsaw meeting would make. A draft of the decisions brought out on Monday became the new battleground as developed countries tried to remove any difference in the responsibility thrust upon the developing …
WARSAW: Sensing that government alone won't be able to usher in climate change breakthroughs, the UN climate bodies on Tuesday launched a first-of-its kind-platform, where chief executives of major MNCs will join top government officials to share solutions, commitments and plans towards feasible action at the ongoing green talks which …
UN climate chief urges coal industry to come cleanWarsaw: Echoing the concerns of environmental groups, United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres on Monday asked the coal industry to diversify to cleaner energy sources "rapidly and dramatically" to halt global climate change. Christiana Figueres told a meeting of the CEOs of …
By all accounts, no dramatic developments are to be expected from the 19th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that started in Warsaw last week. But it is generally acknowledged that the key issue at Warsaw, even if there …
WARSAW: World may be looking at India for its response to what had happened recently in Odisha and Uttarakhand due to natural disasters which were results of climatic extremes, but there was not a word on these two unfortunate incidents from Indian side, comprising official negotiators, here at the UN …
Bangladesh has ratified the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol as the 4th country among the member of the UNFCCC. Dr Aparup Chowdhury, additional secretary to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, said this to the news agency while Bangladesh presented the Country Statement at the stocktaking Plenary Session …
International negotiations on how to set up new carbon markets to cut greenhouse gas levels broke down over the weekend in Warsaw, sources said, after developing nations refused to progress the issue before rich nations increase efforts to cut their own emissions. More than 9,000 delegates from almost 200 countries …
China, the EU and environmentalists criticized Japan at U.N. climate talks on Friday for slashing its greenhouse gas emissions target after its nuclear power industry was shuttered by the Fukushima disaster. The Japanese government on Friday decided to target a 3.8 percent emissions cut by 2020 versus 2005 levels. That …
On the eve of a crucial ministerial session on climate change here, green NGOs from India today accused Indian negotiators of having an "attitude problem" as they ignored to project the Nature's fury during Uttarakhand floods and cyclone Phailin in their opening statement at the UN conference. They said that …
On the eve of the ministerial round of discussions next week, Japan stunned the rest of the countries on Friday at the climate talks here by announcing that it was ditching its earlier emission reduction targets of 25 per cent reduction below 1990 levels. Instead, it pledged to reduce emissions, …
A draft text of a ministerial decision on the controversial phasing out of refrigerant and global warming gases – hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – circulating in the negotiations stirred debate on late Friday night on how the talks would progress over the week when the ministers from more than 130 countries gather …
Internal briefing paper accessed by The Hindu shows U.S. wants to promote its tech firms In an internal briefing paper prepared for its diplomats across the world before the Warsaw climate negotiations, which The Hindu accessed, the U.S. has opposed the setting up of a separate mechanism on ‘loss and …
India, others claim victory, experts feel it could prove counterproductive India and other developing countries have succeeded in ensuring that there will be no discussion on agriculture in the ongoing climate change negotiations in Warsaw, a development that could well prove a pyrrhic victory. Discussion on ways to deal with …
TOKYO: Japan has drastically scaled back its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, complicating efforts to forge a global climate change pact. The new target approved by the Cabinet on Friday calls for reducing emissions by 3.8 percent from their 2005 level by 2020. The revision was necessary because the …
Bangladesh has ranked fifth among 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change-induced natural disasters in the last two decades from 1993 to 2012, according to a new report. During the period, Bangladesh suffered damages worth US$1,832.70 million, wrought by 242 types of natural catastrophes, states the Climate Risk Index (CRI) …
Finds wide-ranging support from the entire G77+China bloc and the United States India has scored an early victory at the negotiations here, ensuring that the talks remain focused on adapting agricultural practices to climate change and not on costly emission reduction measures that would impact farmers directly. India found wide-ranging …
