Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
Durban: India fought hard on Wednesday to ensure that the UN talks do not set a global target to cut emissions by a fixed figure under a pre-ordained timeframe. The issue referred to in the negotiations’ jargon as ‘peaking’ has reared its head at various occasions over the past few …
It is in the interest of developing countries to agree to legally binding national emission limits alone to secure their fair share of the global carbon budget. Climate change is a difficult subject for multilateral cooperation because of the limitations in developing a shared assessment of a challenge posed by …
Many studies have been published to evaluate the consequences of different post-2012 emission allocation regimes on regional mitigation costs. This paper goes one step further and evaluates not only mitigation costs, but also adaptation costs and climate change damages.
Many studies have assessed cost implications of different burden sharing regimes or allocation schemes for post-2012 regional emission reductions. These studies analysed the implications of emission allocation rules on the regional costs of abatement. Adaptation costs and residual damages are generally analysed separately from the burden sharing regime.
The theme of this years’ World Environment Day is lifestyles and an opportunity to reflect on the central issue of global environmentalism - how a continually growing economic system can fit within a finite ecological system. In an interdependent world the patterns, trends and drivers of global change are at …
