Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
With governments tightening their coffers in the wake of the global financial crisis, development campaigners are calling for more transparency in the initial stages of climate change funding for developing countries. The campaigners say they want to ensure climate funding promises are over and above current development aid, rather than …
This article synthesises the pledges made by both industrialised and developing countries, following the Copenhagen Accord, and their implications for stabilising the earth
New Delhi: India has clarified its stand on the issue of international scrutiny of climate change actions in a note forwarded by Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh to the on-going meet of 17-country Major Economies Forum at Washington. The Copenhagen Accord, agreed to by India in the last …
The climate negotiations in this month will set the post-Copenhagen agenda, and the strategic issue for developing countries is whether to focus on the new architecture of monitoring, reporting and verification or on developing a new framework that redefines the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities. (Letters)
If a carbon tax is to be devised at all, it should wait for the current confabulations at the multilateral level to lay down acceptable ground rules. The Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, has done well to counter the threat from the US and Europe …
This paper by the Global Donor Platform makes recommendations on how, within the global climate negotiations, agriculture can contribute to food security and secured livelihoods, while simultaneously building resilience to climate change, reducing GHG emissions and sequestering carbon.
This policy paper shows how the current deadlock in international climate policy can be broken. A resolute course must be set in the international climate process within the next few years in order to keep the global mean temperature rise below 2
This discussion paper examines the outcomes of the Copenhagen climate summit in December last year and more importantly explores the broader trends in climate policy globally. While it is premature to make single track recommendations on global policy frameworks, the paper explores how, in the aftermath of the Copenhagen summit, …
This report analyses the international climate negotiations that took place at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC held in Copenhagen in December 2009. It lays out the main issues at stake in the negotiations, contrasts divergences in interests amongst negotiating parties, and summarises the results achieved in …
More than 110 nations, including top greenhouse gas emitters led by China and the United States, back the non-binding Copenhagen Accord for combating climate change, according to a first formal UN list on Wednesday. The list, of countries from Albania to Zambia, helps end weeks of uncertainty about support for …
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) held a Workshop on international decision making following Copenhagen from 24 - 25 March 2010 at London. The workshop brought together representatives of governments, research institutes, NGOs, academia and media, was held under the Chatham House Rule of non-attribution. Participants identified approaches …
Climate change has received unprecedented attention of the world leaders and media as well as activists, industrialists and ordinary citizens. The scientific community and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in particular have been pleading for action to halt global warming and the resulting climate change. The Copenhagen Climate …
