Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This report have identified no less than 154 new policy announcements globally just since October, in the run-up to the conference. This is the highest number of new government initiatives ever recorded on this issue in a four month period. Progress can be traced directly to the summit and the …
This paper sets out an assessment of the latest targets and intended actions for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, which have been submitted by countries to the Appendices of the Copenhagen Accord. These targets and intended actions are quantified and assessed in terms of global emissions to provide an understanding …
In this paper, authors Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson argue that the most dangerous thing Europe and the United States could do is ignore the strategic implications of Copenhagen and fall back into old strategies with a new sense of patience. They recommend a fundamental shift in thinking.
THERE is confusion still about the future of the Copenhagen Accord, the deal reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. While industrialized countries want the accord to be the basis of future negotiations, developing countries, including India and China, are distancing themselves from the accord. Their main criticism is the accord …
WITH a concerted effort to question the intensity of climate impact, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman R K Pachauri talks about the high cost of undermining the findings of science. How do you, as IPCC chief, view the Copenhagen Accord? Status of accord is not clear. There is …
India Wants Environment Secretary To Succeed Him In a move that could change the dynamics of the climate talks, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo De Boer, resigned from his post on Thursday. India has already made the first moves to get the Union …
WITH Brazil and South Africa informing the UNFCCC of their decision to associate with the Copenhagen Accord, India is now revisiting the issue. Sources said that the
This paper provides a brief overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) submissions made by developing countries as of February 4 , 2010. Since February 1st submissions are added to the UNFCCC website every day and a number of Parties have stated an "intention? to do so. The current …
This short piece analyzes the background and content of the Copenhagen Accord on climate change, which was agreed to last December by leaders of roughly 25 countries, including all of the world's major economies. Although the Copenhagen Accord is a political rather than a legal instrument and has been criticized …
Copenhagen is famous for the writer Hans Christian Anderson and his `Little Mermaid'. When asked what the city is infamous for, a wag said `The church of our saviour', a church with its spire built in the form of a spiral or screw. And the urban legend about it is …
Supriya Sule Every year of delay in our addressing the climate change situation results in a loss of close to $ 500 billion. The drowning Sundarbans, receding Gangotri, excessive and untimely rain in Maharashtra and unprecedented droughts in Madhya Pradesh. Seen in isolation, these events may seem like random coincidences. …
This document contains the text of remarks made by Shri Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of PM at the Valedictory Session of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit on February 7, 2010.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday indicated that India would harden its stance on the controversial Copenhagen Accord and would give higher priority to the formal UN negotiations on climate change than the political deal India struck at the Danish capital in December. Speaking at the Delhi Sustainable …
RASHME SEHGAL Leaders must remain engaged with climate issues. There is no alternative to political leadership and sustainable development. Leaders of emerging countries need to be proactive and relentless in order to arrive at a new carbon deal Two leading environmentalists, former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos and Dr Gro Harlem …
Post-Copenhagen, India May Be Underplaying Kyoto Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI INDIA appears to have begun underplaying the importance of the Kyoto Protocol. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who backed the Copenhagen Accord at a TERI event on Friday, said,
NEW DELHI, Feb. 4: UNFCC chief Yvo de Boer adopted an optimistic position on the Copenhagen Accord saying that 56 countries had pledged to take action on emission cuts and had met the Janary 31 deadline, while another 26 had indicated they would be submitting their enforceable targets shortly. Those …
