Climate Change

The G-8 and Indias National Action Plan on Climate Change

The Hokkaido communique on climate change of the Group of Eight countries does not lay down targets for emissions reductions in the developed countries. Yet the G-8 asks developing countries to take more meaningful mitigation actions. How does India

Publication Date: 
19/07/2008
Mukul Sanwal
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, India, Developing Countries
Climate Change

The G-8 and India's National Action Plan on Climate Change

The Hokkaido communique on climate change of the Group of Eight countries does not lay down targets for emissions reductions in the developed countries. Yet the G-8 asks developing countries to take more meaningful mitigation actions. How does India's new national action plan propose to deal with climate change and how is it different from the approach being suggested by the G-8?

Publication Date: 
18/07/2008
Mukul Sanwal
Economic and Political Weekly
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Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, China, Japan, India, Developing Countries
Industry

Hyundai plans new car launch

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) will be launching its i20 model by end of this year.

Mr H S Lheem, managing director and CEO, HMIL said that the new model would be launched for both domestic and international markets.

"With i20, Hyundai will complete its portfolio in the compact car segment. Santro, i10 and i20 will cater to the lower, middle and upper end segments respectively in the compact car market," he said.

Hyundai Motors India on Tuesday, started production at its new Engine and Transmission Plant at Sriperumbudur in Chennai.

Publication Date: 
16/07/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Carbon Dioxide, Euro V, Emission Targets, Auto Industry, Hyundai Motors India, India, Chennai (T)
Climate Change

"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

US President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit. As he prepared to fly out from his final G8 summit in Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.'

President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry.

Publication Date: 
14/07/2008
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Global Environmental Agreements, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Japan, United States Of America (US)
Climate Change

 No substitute for UN talks on climate change

US representative on climate change James L. Connaughton met India

Publication Date: 
14/07/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
UNFCCC, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, India
Climate Change

The Global Warming regime after 2012: Towards a new focus

Any understanding of global warming must consider the relative contribution to the problem by the richer countries and the rich, over the poorer countries and the poor who are the most affected due to the problem. The legal regime adopted to solve the issue should place the poor and human rights in the centre stage of a new entitlement-based strategy to address the issue. This framework would then involve the development of technology reducing greenhouse emissions in the richer countries and the transfer of the same to the poorer ones.

Publication Date: 
11/07/2008
Philippe Cullet
Economic and Political Weekly
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Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Climate Equity, China, India, Developing Countries
Climate Change

PM opposes emission quota for developing world, puts onus on G8

Toyako: Opposing any move to impose quantitative restrictions for greenhouse emissions on developing countries, India on Wednesday asked the industrialised world not to use climate change to introduce conditionalities or "protectionism' that will hinder their efforts to meet the already complex development challenges.

Publication Date: 
10/07/2008
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Economics, Emission Targets, Japan
Climate Change

Leaders still vague on emissions targets

World leaders met this week in Toyako on the Japanese island of Hokkaido to discuss climate change

Publication Date: 
09/07/2008
Olive Heffernan
Nature
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Global Environmental Agreements, Climate Change, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, Japan
Climate Change

G-8 vow to halve emissions by '50

By JOSEPH COLEMAN Rusutsu (Japan) July 8: Leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.

Publication Date: 
09/07/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, United States Of America (US), European Union (EU)
Climate Change

Developed nations must take lead'

By Suneel Sinha Sapporo, Japan, July 8: India's foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said here on Tuesday that it was "for those who have generated the greenhouse gases that are in the environment today to take the cuts to reduce gases. It's not for the developing countries (to do so). Our emissions are minuscule. It is not for us to make long-term binding commitments." Mr Menon was speaking to reporters here on Tuesday evening after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had a series of meetings with world leaders.

Publication Date: 
09/07/2008
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Green House Gases, Emission Targets, China, India

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