COP 21 (Paris)

Post Javadekar's pro-industry stand, new Environment Minister will have to begin from scratch

Prakash Javadekar in the two years as Environment Minister was in the limelight for his pro-industry policies and climate diplomacy, but he also faced flak from environmentalists who dubbed dilutio

Publication Date:

08/07/2016

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Environmentalists, Environment, Legislation, Environment Clearance (EC), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), COP 21 (Paris), Waste Management

Climate Change

United we stand: reforming the UN to reduce climate risk

With the completion of the Paris Agreement in December of last year, the international community fashioned a universal accord on climate change. As a new E3G Report, United We Stand: Reforming the United Nations to Reduce Climate Risk, makes clear, however, Paris is only one part of the equation.

Publication Date:

06/07/2016

Author(s): Camilla Born, Nick Mabey

Source: E3G

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Impacts, United Nations, Human Rights, Sustainable Development, Climate Agreements, COP 21 (Paris), UNFCCC, Nuclear Proliferation, Food Security

Environment

Javadekar gets a promotion for cutting green tape

New human resources development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar, the only minister of state to be elevated to Cabinet rank on Tuesday, was in Berlin on an official assignment when he got a call as

Publication Date:

06/07/2016

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

Environment Clearance (EC), Industrial Pollution, Air Quality Monitoring, COP 21 (Paris), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Environment

Climate Change

India rolls out process to ratify Paris Agreement for tackling climate change

India said that it has initiated the domestic process for ratifying the Paris Agreement, the global treaty to tackle climate change adopted by 195 countries in December.

Publication Date:

05/07/2016

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

Climate Change, COP 21 (Paris), UNFCCC, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Copenhagen, Developing Countries, Technology Transfer

Climate Change

Maximizing the potential of the Paris Agreement: Effective review in a hybrid regime

The hybrid model of international climate policy embodied in the Paris Agreement requires countries to regularly deliver their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and to progressively increase collective and individual efforts over time.

Publication Date:

01/07/2016

Source: Stockholm Environment Institute

Tags:

Climate Agreements, Climate Change, COP 21 (Paris), Climate Adaptation, Climate Mitigation, Finance

Climate Change

Carbon pricing: a key instrument to facilitate low carbon transition

This paper discusses how carbon pricing can facilitate a low-carbon transition, or a further net zero carbon transition, responding to the Paris Agreement.

Publication Date:

01/07/2016

Author(s): Satoshi Kojima, Kenji Asakawa

Source: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Tags:

Carbon Tax, Low Carbon Economy, Cap And Trade, Emissions Trading, EU-ETS, Carbon Dioxide, Global, Carbon Intensity, Green House Gases, COP 21 (Paris)

Climate Change

New ways to lower investment risk seek to propel climate action

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As small-scale farmers around the world seek to cope with climate change by adopting drought-resistant crops or methods to capture and store water, finding the

Publication Date:

01/07/2016

Source: Reuters

Tags:

Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate Adaptation, COP 21 (Paris), Energy Efficiency, Denmark, United Kingdom (UK), United States Of America (US), Mexico, El Salvador

Energy

India gets $1 billion loan from World Bank for solar mission

This is the bank’s largest financing of solar for any country in the world to date.

Publication Date:

01/07/2016

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Solar Energy, World Bank, India, Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), COP 21 (Paris), Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Energy

Climate Change

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C

The Paris climate agreement aims at holding global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to “pursue efforts” to limit it to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To accomplish this, countries have submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) outlining their post-2020 climate action. Here we assess the effect of current INDCs on reducing aggregate greenhouse gas emissions, its implications for achieving the temperature objective of the Paris climate agreement, and potential options for overachievement.

Publication Date:

30/06/2016

Author(s): Joeri Rogelj, Michel den Elzen, Niklas Höhne & et al

Source: Nature

Vol:

534

pp:

631–639

Tags:

COP 21 (Paris), Climate Change, Emission Targets, Global Warming, UNFCCC, Green House Gases, Climate Agreements

Climate Change