The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has requested the Inter Provincial Coordination Committee

Sudha Nambudiri |KOCHI: There is a reason to cheer on the International Ozone Day. The scientists have recorded a perceptible reduction in the ozone depletion levels in the atmosphere.

It is generally believed that the preventive measures taken by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by cutting down the CFCs emission have had its effect on the atmosphere.

Prominent climate scientists criticised the Australian government's top climate adviser on Tuesday, saying his recommended targets for carbon emissions were too weak and would not help avoid catastrophic climate change.

Climate adviser Ross Garnaut has urged the government to cut Australian Greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on 2000 levels by 2020, and to set a carbon price of A$20 (US$16.25) a tonne in the first years of carbon trading in Australia from mid-2010.

LONDON: R. K. Pachauri was on Thursday re-elected Chairman of the Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for a second six-year term.

The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change had calculated that a relatively safe level of carbon dioxide emissions globally would be 14.5 gigatonnes per year. Roughly calculated, this comes out to be 2.25 tonnes per person per year, globally. However, data clearly shows that advanced nations are at per capita output levels that, if replicated by developing nations, would be dramatically in excess of safe levels.

The world should not wait until next year to cobble together a new climate change pact, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday.

Ban, addressing diplomats and officials at a ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the UN climate panel, said countries negotiating a successor deal to the Kyoto Protocol should aim for a meaningful breakthrough in Poznan, Poland, in December.
Delaying major advances until the end of 2009, when a Copenhagen summit will aim to finalise an accord to tackle rising global temperatures, may be ill-advised, Ban told the event in Geneva.

Speakers at a dialogue yesterday said the term 'Climate change adaptation' should not only mean coping with the changed situation but upgradation of living standards despite the adverse impact of global warming.

While negotiating with the developed countries in various international conferences, Bangladesh should bargain for the provision of international migration of the climate refugees, they added.

The caution issued by the chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on a dangerous four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels should serve as a fresh alert to governments. The scientific consensus on global average temperature increase during the 21st century, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, ranges from 1.4 degrees to 4 degrees C. Climatologists are worried about the negative effects of an increase beyond two degrees for millions of people.