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 …
This report addresses the broad-ranging impact that climate change may have on economies and financial markets over the coming decades. It analyses the extent of that impact on institutional investment portfolios and identifies a series of pragmatic steps for institutional investors to consider, including allocation to climate-sensitive assets and the …
Equity, burden sharing and mitigation targets by Chandra Bhushan presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24
This document contains the summary of the BASIC meeting of Climate Experts on equitable access to carbon space and issues related to trade policy and climate change, at Tianjin during 9-10 Oct.2010. Contains the presentation which is the result of a discussion between academic experts from Brazil, China, India and …
New Delhi: Attending the seventh meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) in Rome, environment minister Jairam Ramesh demanded that the principle of cumulative per capita emissions be embedded in the draft of the long-term deal. He invited the climate negotiators to a meet on the equity principle that he …
Even as the world contemplates stronger action to reduce CO2 emissions to prevent catastrophic climate change, how this goal can be accomplished equitably has become central to the debate. This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass the existing contributions to the literature on equity in climate change. It seeks, …
Reiterating India's long-held argument on having equitable access to atmospheric space to all countries, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said discussions over a global climate treaty would be rendered "meaningless and impossible" in the absence of an equity-based approach. Ramesh rejected the most recent negotiating text on a global …
The statement by Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests at 7th MEF meeting, Rome, 29-30th June, 2010. He stressed on the need for interlinking MRV of climate mitigating actions to ensure that developing nations have "equitable" access to carbon space. Statement of Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment …
NEW Delhi’s search for a model of equitable sharing of the total carbon that countries can spew into the atmosphere will begin at a conference organised by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the ministry of environment and forests. The need for a model has arisen largely as there …
BONN-II MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE failure that it is being made out to be. Yes, there was no negotiating text at the end of the fortnight, there was no movement on increasing ambition by the rich industrialised countries, and the Kyoto protocol still lives on life support. By these …
An equitable distribution of emissions, amongst rich and poor countries and the citizens of every country, and green initiatives by India and China will ensure the planet gets a new lease of life, says Sunita Narain CLIMATE change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer …
THE third meeting of the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) ministers on climate change was held in Cape Town last month. The joint statement, released at the end of the meet, emphasised on equitable sharing of carbon space. This seems to be the core issue in climate change …
Climate change negotiations—cold after the freeze at Copenhagen—have warmed up again.In early April, negotiators met in Bonn, Germany, on the possible agreement that could be signed at the meet scheduled in December 2010 in Mexico. This was followed by a US-convened meet of the Major Economies Forum, better named the …
Climate policy, as it has been understood and practised by many governments of the world under the Kyoto Protocol approach, has failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases in 15 years. The underlying reason for this is that the UNFCCC/Kyoto model was structurally flawed …
Sorry for the long silence in the blog space. But I was fatigued and rather frustrated with the same old arguments and going-nowhere debates. So in the last few months we have been busy with new research to bring different perspectives to the old problems -- how will we share …
