The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands has announced that its Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) has compiled a briefing note based on recent decisions adopted by Ramsar contracting parties and on recent information and recommendations provided by the STRP in relation to wetlands and climate change.
After months of incremental progress on negotiating text for the United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December, recent talks in Bangkok unearthed a deal breaker
JAIPUR: The British High Commission along with an international NGO has invited the Pink City to COP 15 summit at Copenhagen in December this year. The reason: Jaipur has been adjudged as one of the cities which has a low emission record per capita.
Tiruchi among 40 cities where the study was conducted
TIRUCHI: The per capita carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emission in the city has been estimated to be 0.33 tonne a year, well below the national average of 1.75 tonne, a British High Commission-sponsored study has revealed.
Ahmedabad: Raising voice for a clean and green world, an Indian youth delegation will demand for a green policy to tackle climate change, at Conference of Parties 15 (COP15) in Copenhagen, Denmark, starting from December 7.
After months of faltering and incremental progress on negotiating text, two months before the end of the two year process leading to the Copenhagen Climate Conference, 2009, diplomats in Bangkok finally started debating the substantive ideas underlying Parties
This paper seeks to ground the debate on climate finance in an objective analysis of ongoing efforts to finance mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. The authors step back from the question of
The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the Report of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to the fifteenth Conference of the Parties. The report consists of two parts and four annexes. Part I reports project activities approved by the GEF during the reporting period from 1 September 2008 to 30 June 2009.
