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 …
REDD has emerged as a major mitigation measure of climate change. It is proposed as a winwin strategy for both north and south. Nepal has also participated in pilot project of REDD. It is believed that CFUGs can also benefit from carbon trade due to high success of community forestry …
ICF International started working in the area of energy and climate change management much before it became politically or environmentally correct. With more than 3,500 employees in 60 offices worldwide, the firm earned gross revenue of $ 674 million in 2009. The firm does not only consult, but also walks …
With an extension of the Kyoto Protocol appearing bleak and in absence of any legally binding commitment by the participating nations on mandatory carbon emission caps in the Cancun agreement at the annual UN climate talks, experts fear a crash in the carbon market, one which could make a tangible …
I have reached Cancun few hours’ back to attend the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP-16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have been greeted with news that can only be characterised as bad or worse. The most talked about of these is the ‘all-or-nothing’ position …
The post-2012 emissions reduction commitments for Annex 1 countries under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) are presently going nowhere. Japan had fired the first salvo when in the opening plenary, it categorically stated its opposition to the second commitment period of KP. Now, countries like Australia, Canada, and some European nations …
Shimla: The bio-carbon project, which had run into rough weather following suspension of licence of the independent validator, TUEV SUED Industrie Service (TUV SUD), by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has cleared all hurdles paving the way for registration under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). With …
This new publication presents the low carbon development path for Asia and the Pacific. It shows that this region must overcome several challenges to secure the growing energy requirements needed to maintain strong development trend while at the same time pursue a low carbon development path. This publication presents the …
This paper argues that India’s actions towards climate change mitigation and the domestic monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are fast evolving as key parts of the country’s climate policy in order to address the growing concerns on climate change. As the largest developing country with about one sixth of global population …
This new World Bank report focuses on problems and barriers that developers are facing in the solar power sector in India. It analyses the risk perception of domestic and international developers and shows how these could be mitigated. The World Bank initiated a study to understand the barriers faced by …
In the backdrop of an intensified debate on climate change and a wider consensus on finding action oriented solutions, the emphasis on carbon markets in any post-2012 climate policy agreement has become vital. Though the current economic downturn and absence of clear policy signals have raised concerns over the stability …
This brochure provides information to potential users of GHG standards and programs. It includes: an overview of the climate change context including a map of available GHG standards, as well as those currently in development; information on how GHG standards, such as ISO 14064, can provide the tools for implementing …
Discussions on a post?2012 future climate regime have been rigourously carried out, not only within the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, but also at other principal international forums, including the G8, G20 and the Major Economies Forum (MEF), as well as domestically in each country. …
The Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has directed its International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC) branch to take action in the area of waste management. There are substantial co-benefits of waste management in the context of climate change. As a first step to realize these co-benefits, this …
Investors in "green" assets hope that upcoming U.N. climate talks in Mexico will salvage a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in 2011, and in the meantime widen and simplify existing carbon markets. The U.N. process could boost the private sector if it builds trust in global climate action and …
The CDM has performed well with more than 2500 registered projects and an investment of US $ 106 billion likely to generate 1.84 billion CERs before the end of the First Commitment Period with expected revenues in excess of $30 billion. But there is an enormous imbalance in the geographical …
Using the experience of five countries in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam), this report considers whether funding for climate change is being managed in the most effective manner, based on the long history of lessons learnt from development assistance over the last 60 years. The report suggests …
The Climate Instruments for the Transport Sector (CITS) study, commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), assesses the current state of affairs with regard to the impact on the transport sector in developing countries of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Global Environment Facility (GEF) …
The study describes and discusses in detail how four CDM reform alternatives, namely discounting of emission reductions, ambitious baselines, purchase and cancellation of CERs and reinvestment of CER levies, could be integrated in a Post-2012 climate regime. The study assesses these alternatives, according to their impacts on GHG emission reductions, …
