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 …
IN A clear indication that the UNFCCC views the Copenhagen Accord as nothing more than a reference document, executive secretary Yvo de boer has asked countries
3-Day Climate Convention Will See Release Of A White Paper On The Roadmap To Mexico TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The first major gathering of world leaders and climate change experts after the Copenhagen convention will take place in New Delhi from February 5 to 7. The Delhi Sustainable Development …
The UN has received pledges from 55 countries, accounting for 78 per cent of global emissions, to cut their share of greenhouse gases by 2050, a development welcomed by the world body as an ''important invigoration'' to the Copenhagen climate talks. Some of the world's biggest polluters, the US, China, …
Over the past two years the international negotiations on climate change have focused on negotiating a comprehensive framework for enhanced action on climate change. These negotiations, progressing along the two tracks, one under the Kyoto Protocol and another under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), were expected …
The Copenhagen Accord does mention a Copenhagen Green Climate Fund and a Technology Mechanism for technology development and transfer in support of action on adaptation and mitigation. However, it is silent on crucial aspects of both; perhaps those will be worked out in the negotiations to be conducted later. Nevertheless, …
The curtain came down on the 15th Conference of Parties (CoP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen on 19 December 2009, almost a full day beyond its scheduled closure. The conference had been preceded and accompanied by worldwide hype and exaggerated expectations, fuelled by governments …
One of the promises emerging from the confusion of the Copenhagen climate talks focused on climate finance. Ramping up to US$100 billion a year starting in 2020, the promised finance would support developing countries in adapting to climate impacts and adopting low-carbon pathways. This briefing explores the wording in the …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has been a strong critic of the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Sunita Narain, director of CSE, spoke to Civil Society on what she finds wrong with the new Indian position in negotiations on climate change and why a place at the high …
FAO has prepared an analysis of Agriculture and the UNFCCC process in 2010. The FAO Information Note on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in the Post-Copenhagen Processes notes that while only a limited number of Non-Annex I Parties have made submissions in response to the Copenhagen Accord, the proportion …
Climate change requires us to move away from traditional thinking of sovereign states and boundaries, to cross-border cooperation and thinking of the commons and equitable sharing of ecological or carbon space. Such cooperation is needed not just across borders, among nations in a region and at global levels, but also …
This paper reflects the state of the REDD negotiations at the end of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. The paper examines some of the main areas for moving ahead with REDD implementation, including principles and actions; measurement, reporting and verification (MRV); institutional arrangements; means of implementation and financing. Each section …
The path of economic growth that started with the industrial revolution in Europe has, after about 200 years, left humanity trapped in the imbroglio of climate change. To address the global warming and related changes in the earth
This short piece analyzes the background and content of the Copenhagen Accord on climate change, which was agreed to last December by leaders of roughly 25 countries, including all of the world's major economies. Although the Copenhagen Accord is a political rather than a legal instrument and has been criticized …
AGRI SECTOR KEPT OUT OF CLIMATE CHANGE CUTS PRESS TRUST OF INDIA New Delhi, 31 January In keeping with its pledge of adopting a low-carbon path, India has informed the UN that it will undertake voluntary cuts of its emission intensity by 20-25 per cent by 2020 but asserted that …
IN KEEPING with its pledge of adopting a low-carbon path, India has informed the UN that it will undertake voluntary cuts of its emission intensity by 2020 but asserted that it will not be applicable to the agriculture sector. In a statement submitted to the UN framework convention on climate …
