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 …
Rs 58-cr project expected to reduce emission. Mony K. Mathew Kozhikode, Oct.20 The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has come up with a proposal to set up a small hydro-electric project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The project, …
High US Government officials believe that it is highly unreasonable by the developing nations to request the industrialized nations or the Annexure One countries to cut down greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent in 2020. They told The Island Financial Review if they stick to the 40 per cent …
One way of mitigating global climate change is protecting and enhancing biosphere carbon stocks. The success of mitigation initiatives depends on the long-term net balance between carbon gains and losses. The biodiversity of ecological communities, including composition and variability of traits of plants and soil organisms, can alter this balance …
This paper highlights existing knowledge and information about a range of different types of mitigation support and outlines a structure for a future framework for MRV to provide greater accountability and transparency. Mitigation specific financial flows (i.e. aiming to limit emissions) are estimated to be in the range of 8 …
Until now, agriculture has been largely excluded from global carbon markets, but this is set to change in December 2009 at the Copenhagen conference. Agribusiness companies are lobbying hard to make a range of farming activities eligible for future funding under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). As a result, billions …
This paper first reviews proposals for the design of sectoral and related market mechanisms currently debated, both in the UNFCCC negotiations, and in different domestic legislative contexts. Secondly, it addresses the possible principles and technical requirements that Parties may wish to consider as the foundations for further elaboration of the …
This paper outlines the criteria that a global mitigation agreement would need to satisfy and explains the importance of cap-and-trade as the keystone of that agreement. It underscores the inescapability of ethics in determining the fair distribution of the costs of mitigation and argues that there is a strong moral …
The climate is changing in more ways than one. Not only has an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere been wreaking havoc in the global biosphere, but there has also been a significant shift in the way the issue of climate change is debated. From being a marginal
In 2007, when the Bali Action Plan introduced REDD as a possible method of mitigating climate change, it thereby expanded the potential role of forests in the post-2012 climate change regime. Forests have the capacity not only to
This report identifies areas of potential collaboration between the EU and India that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The EU-India Summit in November 2009 will be a challenging forum to tackle climate change issues, coming just weeks ahead of COP15 negotiations in Copenhagen. As a result, specific new initiatives …
Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amounts of public and private investment to limit emissions while promoting green growth in developing countries. While attention has focused on emissions limitations commitments and architectures, the crucial issue …
This report explores the implications of different possible scenarios on the outcomes of the current climate negotiations. To this end it combines the latest emission reduction proposals, the so-called
AN INTERNATIONAL conference of major business organisations from 10 key countries, including the Confederation of Indian Industries, has said climate negotiations should not be used to erect barriers to free trade and investment. In a resolution adopted, following the conclusion of the two-day conference hosted by the US Chamber and …
In a landmark for carbon financing in India, the BMC on Tuesday earned Rs 26 crore for the scientific closure of its Gorai dumping ground. The cheque from the Asian Development Bank is an advance for future delivery of carbon credits. Carbon credits were devised under the clean development mechanism …
Like most large international conferences, the United Nations climate summit meeting in New York this week generated a hefty dose of greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of presidents, prime ministers and officials from across the globe this week took airplanes to the United Nations meeting, some accompanied by dozens of people. …
