Emission Targets

Designing the Post-Kyoto climate regime: lessons from the Harvard project on international climate agreements

A way forward is needed for the post-2012 period to address the threat of global climate change. The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is an international, multi-year, multi-disciplinary effort to help identify the key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture.

Publication Date:

01/11/2008

Source: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Tags:

Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), China, Japan, Europe, United States Of America (US), Australia, India

Poverty as a posture?

The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded RANIDHERA, a remote village in Chhattisgarh made a desperate attempt to join the elite club of Indian villages which gets a few hours of electricity, through the biodiesel route. The effort is limping as the local jatropha plantation did not take off. Thousands of villages are still waiting with cables,

Publication Date:

30/10/2008

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Biodiesel, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Rural Electrification, China, India, Chhattisgarh, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

Climate Change

Climate hara-kiri

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

Publication Date:

30/10/2008

Author(s): Mario DSouza

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Energy Efficiency, Japan, India, Developing Countries, Planning Commission

Climate Change

Reducing carbon emissions no easy task for Europe

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.

Publication Date:

28/10/2008

Author(s): Matthew Saltmarsh

Source: International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Europe, European Union (EU)

Climate Change

Climate of fear

Can Stavros Dimas successfully defend the environment against economic gloom?

Publication Date:

25/10/2008

Source: Economist (London)

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Greenpeace, Europe, Italy, Poland, European Union (EU)

Climate Change

Risk communication on climate: Mental models and mass balance

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

Publication Date:

24/10/2008

Author(s): John D. Sterman

Source: Science

Vol:

322

Issue:

5901

pp:

532

Tags:

Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Climate Science, Green House Gases, Climate Economics, Emission Targets

Climate Change

Fair trade?

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

Publication Date:

23/10/2008

Source: Nature

Vol:

455

Issue:

7216

pp:

1008

Tags:

Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Economics, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Emissions Trading, Fossil Fuels, France, Poland, United Kingdom (UK), European Union (EU)

Climate Change

Cabinet ministers release report contradicting govt stand on climate

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

Publication Date:

23/10/2008

Source: Indian Express (New Delhi)

Tags:

Climate Change, Emission Targets, NGO, M S Swaminathan, India

Climate Change