Zambia: Worldwide Climate Indaba Timely
ZAMBIA has been awarded the opportunity to become the first African country to host the board meeting of the Worldwide Green Climate Fund (GCF). In this regard, Zambia is expected to share its experience
COP 17 (Durban Summit)
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UN database to showcase climate-friendly strategies of MNCs
The UN has launched an online database that showcases the strategies adopted by global majors like Microsoft and Starbucks to adapt to climate change and at the same time ensure an increase in their profits.
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Looking beyond Durban: Where To from here?
The lesson for India after Durban is that it needs to formulate an approach that combines attention to industrialised countries’ historical responsibility for the problem with an embrace of its own responsibility
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Deadline 2015
A summit meeting of heads of government is needed to strengthen global ambition on climate change — we should start preparing now, says Michael Jacobs.
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Mum’s the word for Natarajan as report on shrinking forest cover gathers dust
New Delhi The Indian forest cover has shrunk. And there is no one to announce the data, as environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has not found time to release it. The silence is in tune with the way the ministry of environment and forests has worked in the last five months after the new minister took over. The release of the India State of Forest Report-2011 was deferred in December. Natarajan is yet to set a date for the release of the report, a key component of macro-economic policy-making for the government and the industry. Natarajan has maintained her silence even after returning from the ministerial level climate change conference at Durban in early December.
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Climate change: India a constructive force in Durban
The Durban conference in December 2011 marked a breakthrough in international efforts to combat climate change. The EU and India played a key role in final negotiations that unlocked the pact on the last
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Did Durban deliver?: the 2011 climate conference and its implications for land transport
A summary of the proceedings from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, and their significance for the land transport sector.
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No legally-binding deal: Natarajan
The government on Tuesday clarified that India will not sign any legally-binding global agreement for emission reduction. Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan informed the Rajya Sabha that the country will not be signing any legally-binding norms as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth.
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India not for legally binding pact on emission cuts: Govt
India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said today.
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India not for legally binding pact on emission cuts: Govt
India will not sign any legally binding global agreement for emissions reduction, as the country needs to eradicate poverty through economic growth, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Tuesday. “There is no question of signing a legally binding agreement at this point of our development. We need to make sure that our development does not suffer,” Ms. Natarajan said in Rajya Sabha.
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The inconvenient truth of equity
In 1990, China was responsible for only 10% of annual emissions. But in 2010, it contributed some 27% In 1992, when the world met to discuss an agreement on climate change, equity was a simple concept: