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 …
Minister of State for Environment & Forests Jairam Ramesh's response to Calling Attention notice on 'government's changing position on climate change' in Rajya Sabha. He reiterated that India will not accept any legally binding emission reduction cuts in Copenhagen climate summit. This document presents the discussion on 'Government's changing position …
India on Tuesday said a deliberate attempt was being made to downgrade international expectations from the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change, which is
This collection of articles captures and disseminates some perspectives on climate change from the Indian context. Starting from an argument on a new climate deal to highlighting the importance of the small-scale industrial sector within climate change debates,this includes concerns and convictions of India
While the impact of climate change is global, the response is piecemeal and there is an increasing burden on the developing countries, and the poor living there.
Adopted at the thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 13) in December 2007, the Bali Action Plan (BAP) raised the political status of adaptation and opened discussions on international adaptation finance. Since COP 13, financing has in …
The German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) has developed an innovative approach to solving the problem of climate change. A key component is an agreement between the community of states regarding a cap for the total amount of carbon dioxide that may be emitted up to the year 2050 …
Indian environmentalism has been an important, even defining, element of a distinctly Southern brand of environmentalism. Largely rooted in local struggles over access to and control over resources, a stylized Southern environmentalism is closely connected to concerns over social justice and driven by subalterns rather rather than professionals? From this …
The latest fuss about the 2°C global temperature target India apparently acceded to at the Major Economies Forum in L’Aquil, Italy, is important to unravel. The declaration by the world’s 20 biggest and most powerful countries recognized the scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels …
Watch Shyam Saran at CSE's South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change on Aug 27, 2009. He briefed more than 120 journalists on the climate deal that developing countries look for at Copenhagen, this year in December. This video shows the briefing by Shyam Saran, special envoy of the …
Compiling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories is no longer the province of only fi rst-mover corporations: Approximately two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies now use the standards developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Compiling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories is no longer the province of only fi rst-mover corporations: Approximately two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies now use the standards developed by the Greenhouse Gas Protocol
There is now a growing consensus among governments that aggressive climate change mitigation is desirable, though they remain bitterly divided about how the associated burden should be shared. India
The G-8 failed to develop a consensus to lower carbon emissions not because developing countries, led by China and India, objected to the agreement as the western media would have us believe, says Neeraj Kaushal IT HAS become a fad in Europe and the US to blame China and India …
In the course of 2009, negotiators will need to come to a coherent and alanced policy framework for a future climate change regime. One that takes on board the development needs of vulnerable countries and that passes the test of equity to reflect the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities …
The interaction of climate and development threatens to create a paradox: economic development could accelerate climate change, which in turn could block further development, locking the world into existing patterns of inequality as the natural environment deteriorates. The solution to this paradox is far from obvious. What analytical tools are …
