India-Japan statement on energy efficiency ON SEPTEMBER 17, India and Japan issued a joint statement that threatens to overturn India

PARIS: Weakening growth, huge investment needs and a highly contentious policy framework are just a few of the reasons why European Union member states may not get close to their goals for reducing carbon emissions in the next decade or so.

Can Stavros Dimas successfully defend the environment against economic gloom?

Public confusion about the urgency of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions results from a basic misconception.

Europe needs to find a responsible way out of its climate-regulation impasse. (Editorial)

In an embarrassment for the government, two cabinet ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Vayalar Ravi, endorsed and released an international NGO-sponsored report in Delhi demanding that India impose a carbon tax on the goods it produces and take on hard time-bound greenhouse gas emission reduction targets

Europe needs to find a responsible way out of its climate-regulation impasse. (Editorial)

An impasse threatens the international climate negotiations. This impasse

Europe's ambitious climate plan was approved by the European Parliament's environment committee. But a group of eastern European countries, led by Poland, threaten to block reforms to the emissions-trading system, saying that these would harm their economies.

The paper examines the extent to which the developed countries are shouldering their responsibility for mitigating climate change. Developed countries have a responsibility to reduce the threat of climate change in two ways: (1) by reducing their own emissions and (2) by facilitating the mitigation efforts of developing countries by providing financial support.

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