The Punjab Environment Protection Department is establishing a climate change cell for offering technical advice to the stakeholders on climate change and carbon trading.
This presentation clarifies the concept of Clean Development Mechanism and CER. Its challenges, opportunities for CDM Projects, portfolio of India's approved CDM Projects. It also highlight about the Post 2012 CDM.
Watch Jairam Ramesh, India's minister for environment and forests briefing the journalists about India's position on climate negotiations at the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, organised by CSE on August 28, 2009.
The building sector has a big responsibility and role to play in combating global warming. In 2007, a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report estimated that this sector, when it adopts suitable measures, can help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 30 per cent to 40 per cent.
Mumbai: Optimism seems to have returned to the carbon credits market, with spot prices of certified emission reductions (CERs) or carbon credits testing the euro 13-levels. The December 2009 contracts for CERs on the European Climate Exchange are trading at around euro 12-12.5 over last month.
Australian plans for a sweeping carbon trade scheme opened new divisions within the opposition parties on Friday, boosting hopes Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will win approval for his plan and avoid a possible snap election.
At Copenhagen, India should clearly indicate to the US that it would not sign an unjust and inequitable treaty permitting trade sanctions against other nations and that if necessary it would exercise its right to retaliate, says Arvind Panagariya
