Climate Change

India plans meet to share carbon space equitably

TAKING the lead in working out an equitable system for sharing the limited carbon space, India is planning to hold an international conference of experts in June. The goal of the conference will be to outline ways in which equity in burden sharing can be operationalised in a manner that doesn

Publication Date: 
01/03/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Consumption Patterns, Climate Equity, Energy, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), United States Of America (US), India
Climate Change

Inconvenient truths

Climate change is definitely the biggest story of the 21st century. But its sheer complexity and urgency is defeating us. For the past 19 years-the first intergovernmental negotiations took place in Washington DC, USA in early 1991-the world has been arguing about what it knows but doesn't accept.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2010
Sunita Narain
Seminar
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Deforestation, Climate Change, IPCC, Climate Impacts, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Renewable Energy, Climate Equity, United States Of America (US), India, Developing Countries, COP15
Climate Change

India should not support the Copenhagen Accord, says CSE

Copenhagen Accord is weak, meaningless, fundamentally flawed and India should not endorse it, says CSE in this press release. It is a polluter's accord that will be disastrous for the fight against climate change and bad for India and the world.

Publication Date: 
08/01/2010
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Equity, India, COP15, Copenhagen Accord
Climate Change

Copenhagen Accord: freezes carbon inequity in the world

This presentation shows the features of Copenhagen Accord: budget for 2020, cumulative injustice and how the burden of emission cut shifted to India, Inequity: Frozen and decided, how Copenhagen Accord is bad maths and worse politics.

Publication Date: 
08/01/2010
Sunita Narain
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Equity, India, COP15, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Accord
Climate Change

Deconstructing the climate blame game

An accusation that is being made post-Copenhagen is that the major developing countries, China in particular, blocked ambitious emission reduction targets that were offered by the advanced economies.

Publication Date: 
02/01/2010
Mario DSouza, Tejal Kanitkar, T Jayaraman
Economic and Political Weekly
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Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Climate Equity, China, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries, COP15
Climate Change

Climate change migrants

The First Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990 noted that the greatest single impact of climate change might be on human migration. The report estimated that by 2050, 150 million people could be displaced by climate change-related phenomenon. More recent studies increase this estimate.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2010
Md Shamsuddoha, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
Tiempo
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Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Refugees, Natural Disasters, Floods, Climate Equity, Migration, Displacement, Human Rights, Bangladesh, Global, Tiempo, Md Shamsuddoha, Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
Climate Change

Copenhagen Accord

The "Copenhagen Accord" announced at COP 15 in Copenhagen. It agrees to weak and non-legally commitments from developed world and says that mitigation actions of developing nations will be open for "international consultation and analysis".

Publication Date: 
19/12/2009
UNFCC
Tags:
Forests, Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Technology Transfer, Climate Mitigation, Climate Equity, Developing Countries
Climate Change

In Summit chill, China-India warmth turns on the heat

On a day when negotiations at Copenhagen were briefly stalled over the unwillingness of developed countries to discuss their previous commitments under Kyoto Protocol, China took the lead in stepping up pressure against the US and other Western powers with its Ambassador to India Zhang Yan calling for greater unity among developing countries amid what he termed as efforts to

Publication Date: 
15/12/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Equity, China, India
Climate Change

India role crucial, says Danish PM

A day after India, China and other G-77 countries decided against backdoor deals at the Copenhagen summit

Publication Date: 
08/12/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Climate Equity, India
Climate Change

Possible future reduction targets for the EU

This report provides background information that is relevant to assessing the ambition levels of the major countries involved in the current international climate negotiations. The EU

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Ecofys
Tags:
Climate Change, Emission Targets, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Climate Equity, China, Japan, Russia, United States Of America (US), Australia, New Zealand, India, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

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