Blockchain for scaling climate action
The environment and climate sectors require digital transformation to keep up with the changing planetary ecosystem and to coordinate urgent and global action in areas including biodiversity loss, disaster
Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV)
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Complex implications of the Cancun Climate Conference
<p>When the dust settles after the Cancun climate change conference of the United Nations, a careful analysis will find that the adoption of the “Cancun Agreements” may have given the multilateral climate system a shot in the arm, but that the meeting also failed to save the planet from climate change and helped pass the burden of climate mitigation onto developing countries.
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Cautious support for Jairam tightrope act
Cancun (Mexico), Dec.
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Speech by Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests, India and leader of Indian delegation
<p>This document contains the speech by Mr Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Environment & Forests, India and leader of Indian delegation, delivered at Cancun in the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP-16) on December 8, 2010.</p>
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Politics of climate change
<p>The Cancun meet is deeply divided. Governments are not taking a chance. They do not want to hear the noise of protests as they go about stitching a dirty deal that may not combat climate change or give the poor the right to development This week the world is meeting, once again, to deliberate on a possible global agreement to cut emissions that are speeding catastrophic climate change.
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No takers for paper on Cancun round-1
THE facilitating text put forward by the chair of the ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action, or the Bali track of the negotiations, did not find favour with any of the countries as a possible negotiating text, though the only country that spoke out against the text was Bolivia.
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Hagen redux? Cancun opts for huddle over open talks
Closed-Door Meetings Begin On Scrutiny Of Mitigation Actions New Delhi: The Cancun climate change conference has begun to put the horse before the cart, getting into closed-door meetings on international scrutiny of mitigation actions when the rich countries are yet to disclose their emission targets. In a move reminiscent of Copenhagen, the host country, Mexico, organized the first closed
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Jairam has diluted Indias position, charges BJP
THE Bharatiya Janata Party has charged environment minister Jairam Ramesh with diluting the country
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CSE slams Ramesh's stance on global scrutiny
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
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Ramesh upbeat on US nod for climate auditing
A proposal on how rich and poor nations report their actions to fight global warming could help get the US on board for a broad agreement on climate change, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday.
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Ensure BASIC solidarity:Ramesh told
THE Union Cabinet, which drew clear red lines for Mr Jairam Ramesh