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 …
The relationship between capital and nature gravitates towards a policy of primary accumulation. This article provides an analysis of the imposition of capitalist property rights over natural resources in India as processes of primary accumulation. These processes are evidenced by the construction of large dams and mines, in addition to …
NOTHING characterized the stalemate at Bonn climate talks more than the candid admission by incoming executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, in an informal chat with media, said she did not think a complete climate deal could be reached in her …
Scientific classifications can sometimes lead to tricky situations. Bamboos are as much carbon as trees and some of them grow really quick sequestering carbon dioxide faster than the trees. So one would expect bamboos to be plants of choice for climate change mitigation. But because they are taxonomically classified as …
India is one of the major leapfrogging economies of the world and it has demonstrated its economic resilience in the wake of the global economic debacle. It quickly recovered from the downslide and has shown positives signs of becoming an economic superpower by 2020.
This briefing illustrates how HFC-23 projects under the CDM are working directly against the objectives of the UNFCCC and the Montreal Protocol, which is working to phase out HCFCs. HFC-23 emissions are clearly best addressed through direct measures outside the CDM. Setting the demand for the majority of CDM credits …
This paper attempts a comparative analysis of three carbon management studies (two project design documents and a feasibility study) which seek to benefit community level institutions for their forest management and conservation efforts.
The greater than before attention to forests in international climate change negotiations indicates that both international and national policy makers and think tanks have come to recognize the importance of natural forests as terrestrial carbon sinks.
Taxmen Get Active As Scrutiny Reveals Many Listed Cos Not Including Carbon Credits In Their Income While Calculating Tax Deepshikha Sikarwar NEW DELHI Corporate earnings from trading in certified emission reduction or carbon credits has caught the eyes of income tax department. Tax authorities plan to closely look at companies …
NEW DELHI: On the eve of World Environment Day on Friday, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi claimed that it had become the first civic body in the country to win carbon credit through its municipal solid waste compost plant at Okhla in South Delhi. According to the civic body, an …
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has earned carbon credits worth Rs 5 lakh against net carbon emission reduction (CER) achieved by making Okhla compost plan functional. This makes MCD the first civic agency in the country that has earned carbon credits. An MCD official said,
New Delhi: The iron & steel sector, the largest consumer of energy among all industrial sectors, is taking some benchmark initiatives, ranging from conventional energy-efficient measures to cutting-edge technological solutions, to reduce resultant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to FE-EVI Green Business Survey 2009-10. The findings of the survey will …
"CDM in CHARTS" is a booklet with a good reputation for providing a straightforward and easy-to-understand description of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
This report aims to propose ideas for CDM reform, targeting international negotiators of the CDM. The Market Mechanism Group of IGES organised the IGES CDM Capacity Building Kyoto General Meeting in order to discuss, among other items, ideas for CDM reform This report presents the findings of the meeting, based …
Proposal for a sectoral mechanism for transport as a means to increase the potential for GHG mitigation in the land transport sectors of both developed and developing countries. The large mitigation potential and associated co-benefits of action in the land transport sector can be tapped into by a sectoral mechanism …
This paper critically examines the clean development mechanism (CDM) established under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol in terms of its effectiveness as a vehicle for technology transfer to developing countries, a specific commitment under the UNFCCC. Fundamentally, the paper poses the question of whether technology transfer as part of …
