Order of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust Vs State of Karnataka & Others dated 02/05/2025. Pursuant to the tribunal order dated April 24, 2025, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) informed the court that as per …
Document contains the full text of Speech of Ms. Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Environment & Forests, Government of India, delivered at High Level Round Table on “Looking at the way forward in implementing the expected outcomes of the Conference” on 20 June 2012 at 4.30 - 7.30 …
Union Cabinet approves negotiating brief India will head to the Rio+20 summit in Brazil with a negotiating brief focussed on defending the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility” (CBDR) and preventing any attempt to pin down specific goals or targets regarding sustainable development. On Thursday, the Union Cabinet approved the …
How should the scale and the nature of the immense risks appear to face from unmanaged climate change influence the way frame both the economics and the approaches to the values or ethics which bring to the policy analysis? If fail to understand the issues of policy towards climate change …
But a workshop on equity at the climate inter-sessional refused to move beyond well-embedded party demarcations. It was India, which at last year’s climate negotiations at Durban had insisted on bringing the principle of equity back into the agenda for tackling climate change. The concept, which not so long ago …
This paper analyses potential criteria to allocate international funding for adaptation to climate change, as a response to one of the main governance challenges of international adaptation funding - the prioritization of project proposals given scarce funding.
Speaking at an international workshop on Equity and Climate Change, held on April 12, the minister for environment and forests, Jayanthi Natarajan, sought to build a consensus on the inter-relationship between equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities in the Climate Convention, and the nature of the obligations …
New Delhi: A tectonic shift in the global climate negotiations got underway with the African group of nations siding with India in demanding that equity and ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ be embedded in the talks for a future climate regime. The re-alignments became evident with several key groups of nations …
New Delhi As part of its submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), India has sought an increase in the level of ambition by the developed or Annex-I countries, in line with the principles of equity and common – but differentiated – responsibility. The environment ministry …
Speakers at an international seminar organised by the British Council, Association of British Scholars (ABS) and the TKM Institute of Management (TIM) here on Monday stressed the need for the international community to join hands to combat the growing threat of climate change without stunting the growth of developing countries. …
New Delhi Underlining the principle of “equity” in climate talks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said growth should take place in a way which does not harm the environment. During his meeting with Environment Ministers of BASIC countries, that is Brazil, South Africa, India and China, Singh said the …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday stressed the need for “equity” in global climate change negotiations and said economic growth should not harm the environment. At his meeting in Delhi with the environment ministers of the BASIC countries, Brazil, South Africa, India and China, Singh is learnt to have said …
Poor nations have been sparring over emission cuts without realising that the fight is a deliberate creation of rich countries Many years ago, in a desperately poor village in Rajasthan, people decided to plant trees on the land adjoining their pond so that its catchment would be protected. But this …
Growth should take place in a way that does not harm the environment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday. During his meeting with Environment Ministers of BASIC countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — Dr. Singh said the principle of equity - equal per capita rights to …
The Doha Climate Change Conference that concluded on 8th December, 2012 has resulted in three decisions (clubbed together as ‘Doha Climate Gateway’) aimed at advancing the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol (KP). The key questions for the Doha conference were: amending …
In the run-up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, India continues to emphasise the principle of equity as forming the foundation for climate change negotiations. “I would like to reiterate that the bottom line remains equity,” said minister of environment Jayanthi Natarajan addressing a special session on Biodiversity at the 12th …
NEW DELHI: In one of his most emphatic public statements reaffirming the return of 'equity' in India's climate change stance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said global cooperation on climate change "must be based on the foundation of the right to development and the need for an equitable distribution of burden". …
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that "a lack of collective will" was hampering efforts to forge a common global front against the threat of climate change. Addressing the opening of a Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, Singh said India was committed to tackling greenhouse gas …
Climate change is not a problem of present deeds but of past contributions. The world has run out of atmospheric space - and time. Will the rich, who contributed to emissions in the past and still take up an unfair share of this space, reduce emissions? Or will emerging countries …
In 1990, China was responsible for only 10% of annual emissions. But in 2010, it contributed some 27% In 1992, when the world met to discuss an agreement on climate change, equity was a simple concept: sharing the global commons – the atmosphere in this case – equally among all. …
The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and acrimonious, as the world desperately searched for new ways to avoid the toughest of questions—how to drastically reduce emissions to keep the world somewhat within safe levels …
