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 …
China and other rising economies like India must shoulder growing obligations to cut greenhouse gases (ghg) as they climb the development ladder, said a prominent Chinese adviser who has broken ranks with his government on global warming. Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, is the …
This paper provides an overview of mitigation practices for the agricultural sector, and identifies relevant policies and measures (PAMs). It addresses the relative mitigation potential of each mitigation practice presented, as well as methodological and technical challenges, and possible barriers for their implementation. The paper also identifies win-win options, best …
This category comprises activities that lead to efficient use of electricity through the adoption of self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) to replace incandescent lamps in residential applications. The high-efficiency technology to replace existing equipment must be new equipment not transferred from another activity.
Can the creation of a carbon finance fund effectively tackle implementational, institutional, legal, financial and capacity-building issues related to the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol?
A way forward is needed for the post-2012 period to address the threat of global climate change. The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is an international, multi-year, multi-disciplinary effort to help identify the key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture. …
The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded RANIDHERA, a remote village in Chhattisgarh made a desperate attempt to join the elite club of Indian villages which gets a few hours of electricity, through the biodiesel route. The effort is limping as the local …
PARIS: Weakening growth, huge investment needs and a highly contentious policy framework are just a few of the reasons why European Union member states may not get close to their goals for reducing carbon emissions in the next decade or so. As industrialization worsens pollution across the planet - the …
Can Stavros Dimas successfully defend the environment against economic gloom? STAVROS DIMAS concedes that his appointment in 2004 as the European Union
In an embarrassment for the government, two cabinet ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Vayalar Ravi, endorsed and released an international NGO-sponsored report in Delhi demanding that India impose a carbon tax on the goods it produces and take on hard time-bound greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
Europe's ambitious climate plan was approved by the European Parliament's environment committee. But a group of eastern European countries, led by Poland, threaten to block reforms to the emissions-trading system, saying that these would harm their economies.
The paper examines the extent to which the developed countries are shouldering their responsibility for mitigating climate change. Developed countries have a responsibility to reduce the threat of climate change in two ways: (1) by reducing their own emissions and (2) by facilitating the mitigation efforts of developing countries by …
Let’s cut to the chase. If we are serious about climate change then we have to be serious about changing (drastically) the way the world generates and uses its energy. But even as the rich world talks glibly about ‘decarbonisation’ of its economy it has done precious little to reinvent …
