The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
INDIA firmly reiterated its position that it was not in a position to take on legally binding targets on reducing emissions. This statement came even as US secretary of state Hillary Clinton accepted that developed countries had made
The transcript of remarks by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to New Delhi. Seeking India's proactive cooperation for a new global climate deal, she made a strong pitch for low-carbon economy and assured that Washington will "not do anything that will limit India's economic progress".
At their annual summit last week, leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations pledged to try to keep the planet from warming by more than 2
Lack of commitment at Bonn could dampen Copenhagen THE second round of climate change talks in Bonn concluded a little after 5 in the evening on June 12. Twelve days of heated talks among representatives of 182 countries yielded very little
The G-8 failed to develop a consensus to lower carbon emissions not because developing countries, led by China and India, objected to the agreement as the western media would have us believe, says Neeraj Kaushal IT HAS become a fad in Europe and the US to blame China and India …
This article looks at the issue of climate change from a developing country perspective and develops an outline of a win-win-oriented climate policy around development priorities. It demonstrates how the great climate debate between the
The G8 or the world's most wealthy and developed countries have remained non-committal on setting targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, a demand being stressed by the emerging economies (G5) and other developing countries. Though the G8 and G5 came out with a joint declaration on various issues at …
COME December and developed and developing countries will meet in Copenhagen to deliberate the issue of climate change. The issues are also well known. At the base is the Kyoto Protocol under which signatory countries agree to peg their carbon emission levels at or below some historical level, namely, 1990. …
The declaration on energy and climate at the MEF of 16 countries at G8 summit in Italy. Both developing and developed countries will cooperate by taking appropriate mitigation actions for low carbon growth and will report by Nov 15 2009 on action plans and roadmaps.
If we focus on clear, practical and achievable goals, major reductions in carbon emissions can be made so as to ensure that the world will fashion a radical new approach to climate change within a manageable time frame, says Tony Blair TODAY, JULY 9, THE leaders of the world
Major nations failed to agree on Wednesday to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, in a setback to efforts to secure a new UN climate pact. Talks involving officials from the 17-nation Major Economies Forum (MEF), whose members account for about 80 per cent of global gas emissions, broke down …
