Equity, the new buzzword at Bonn climate negotiations
CSE brings live update on Bonn UN Climate Conference, from 14-25 May 2012, which aims to deliberate the work plan on a future protocol post-2020 and enhance ambition for 2020. Developed countries taking part in this climate meet showed readiness to act on what was agreed to at the COP 17 Durban meeting.
Related
Report: The final outcome of the Durban Conference on Climate Change
Blog: The Bonn Negotiations: New Global Climate Policy
Report: Roadmap to agriculture at the UNFCCC climate talks (Bonn, 14-25 may 2012)
Feature: Race to kill kyoto protocol
Document: Press Release: First meeting of Green Climate Fund Board postponed
Latest News from Down To Earth
Making sense of climate debate
Book: The politics of climate change and the global crisis: mortgaging our future, by Praful Bidwai, Orient Blackswan, Rs 750.
Patronising dirty technology
Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur. Waste-to-energy projects figured in the election manifesto of the Bharatiya Janata Party during the recent civic polls in Delhi. BJP hoardings across the city declared that “the citizens will not be charged to generate power”. It seems the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is obsessed with the idea of generating energy from garbage. Despite ample evidence that the technology is a failure and people’s oppositions to the projects, three waste-to-energy projects are under way in the capital city.
Blogs
Equity and Global Climate Policy
The key issue is not defining equity but determining whether climate change is a sustainable development or an environmental challenge
A workshop on ‘Equitable access to Sustainable Development’ is to be held in Bonn in May as part of the negotiating process for a new arrangement on global climate change. The treatment of equity in a global approach continues to be an unresolved and divisive issue, because the approach of all counties seeks to define an elusive concept, equity, and tweak a failing system arrived at in 1992 rather than develop a vision for 2032.
India’s Climate Policy Dilemma
Is climate change a sustainable development or an environmental challenge?
Negotiation
Mitigation
Impact
Managing climate extremes and disasters in Asia: lessons from the IPCC SREX report
The Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) was commissioned by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in response to a recognised need to provide specific advice on climate change, extreme weather and climate events (‘climate extremes’). This summary highlights the key findings of the report from an Asian perspective, including an assessment of the science and the implications of this for society and sustainable development.
Adaptation
Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation: A Case study of the Teso Sub-Region, Eastern Uganda
This study examined the role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Uganda with specific focus on the Teso sub-region. Specifically, the study identified indigenous knowledge practices used in climate change adaptation, documented indigenous knowledge in climate observation, and identified constraints to indigenous knowledge use for climate change adaptation.
Books
A Book of Activities for Environmental Education: Climate Change & Natural Resources
This is CSE's latest book on Climate Change for educating school children. CSE's Environment Education Unit has always been working towards providing easy-to-understand reading material. Our new publication on this subject is an attempt to lend teachers a helping hand. It unfolds in two sections: Climate Change: how to make sense of it all, & Natural Resources: how to share and care. Here, the key issues selected adhere strictly to curriculum guidelines. However, they are introduced to students not as a paragraph to memorise, but as an activity to do.
for further information and place order: http://www.cseindia.org/category/thesaurus/book-activities-environmental...
Challenge of the new balance
The new CSE study of the six most emissions intensive sectors to determine India
