It refers to demands of poorest countries that they must be compensated for inevitable losses caused by the existing level of greenhouse gas emissions, which any amount of reduction of future emiss

Team to reassert importance of historical emissions in the discussions at Warsaw

The Union Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan and climate negotiators’ team got the approval from the Union Cabinet on Thursday to reassert the importance of historical emissions in the new climate agreement, which is to be discussed at Warsaw beginning November 11.

‘India must seek to ensure that new deal remains embedded within existing U.N. framework’

The Union Cabinet is likely to decide the non-negotiables for the coming climate change negotiations on Thursday. It will take a call on the shape of the new global agreement that India would push for at these talks and over the next two years till the pact is signed in 2015.

Brazil has proposed that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formally study the historical responsibility of countries for the accumulated greenhouse gas emissions

It is less than a third developed countries have achieved between 1990 and 2011

The developed countries have committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a paltry three per cent from 2011 to 2020, according to a new data analysis by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is less than a third of the emission cuts the rich countries have achieved between 1990 and 2011.

Mines had flourished without clearance from the standing committee of the National Board of Wildlife: panel

Mining would not be permitted within one km of national parks and sanctuaries in Goa, the Union Environment Ministry has decided in an order that could take the State one step closer to restart iron ore excavation in a regulated fashion.

It is unrealistic for rich countries to increase financing for fight against climate change, says official
The U.S. does not want the new global climate agreement to have “rigid rules” or penalties for countries that do not meet their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern said this at a Chatham House conference in London on October 22, explaining the U.S. vision of the new agreement countries will have to sign by 2015.

The Environment and Forests Ministry will soon take the final call on Vedanta’s mining of Niyamgiri hills, with the Odisha government having sent the gram sabha resolutions to the Centre for a deci

EU Finance Ministers fail to agree on putting any figure on the table at the Warsaw meet.

The Environment Ministry has decided to turn approximately 60,000 square kilometres of the Western Ghats across six States into an Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA), banning mining, quarrying, ther