Interest in “nested” approaches to REDD+ has grown steadily as policy makers, practitioners and investors seek to reconcile approaches to reducing, and rewarding, emissions reductions at different scales – national, subnational and project.
Last fortnight, the final nail was driven into the action on climate-change coffin. In the US, a crucial vote in the house sub-committee decided that the country
This is the Presentation delivered by Hafijul Islam Khan, Bangladesh Environmental Law Association, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation deals with the issue on compensation of climate vulnerable poor people. It presents the case study of coastal fisher folks of Bangladesh.
The Cancun Agreement1 carries REDD+ firmly forward as a keycomponent of the post-2012 international climate change regimeby describing its main elements and operationalizing its initialphase. Before Cancun, many details of REDD+ were unclear, particularly concerning the issues of most importance to forest dependent people.
As environment minister in the Portuguese government, Humberto D Rosa has been a leading negotiator at important conferences including the UN Convention on Climate change in Bali in 2007, the Copenhagen conference in 2009 and the recent Cancun Summit. In the context of the Portuguese presidency of the council of the European Union, his role at Bali was quite significant.
The World Economic Forum -- the gathering of power glitterati each year in Davos -- has assessed the top risks the world faces in 2011. According to this analysis, climate change is the highest-ranking risk the world will face in the coming years, when its likelihood and impact are combined.
At the United Nations meeting on climate change at Cancun in December 2010, India was confident in its actions and steadfast in its resolve. Contrary to the view expressed by some commentators, a new positive India emerged from Cancun.
GLOBAL negotiations are not an easy task. For that matter, every negotiation requires maturity of understanding of what one party will give and what the other party is able to accept.
