This is the Presentation delivered by Chandra Bhushan of Centre for Science and Environment, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation deals with the issue on compliance under and after Kyoto.

This is the Presentation delivered by M.K. Ramesh, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi.

This is the Presentation delivered by Prof. Lavanya Rajamani, Centre for Policy Research, at International Conference on 'Compliance and Liability in Climate Change Negotiations' organized by CSE on 1 March 2011 at New Delhi. The presentation deals with the future of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), established under the Kyoto Protocol, is the primary international offset program in existence today. It generates offsets through investments in GHG reduction, avoidance, and sequestration projects in developing countries.

As this assessment will show, an extraordinary amount of time, effort and resources have been dedicated to pursuing land based solutions to climate change by both developing and developed countries across the globe. Progress has been made in building capacity and readiness, tools and techniques and principles and partnerships.

With the Cancun conference having achieved a major success in bringing the troubled climate negotiations back on track, four major developing economies

he sixth BASIC Feb. 27: The sixth BASIC ministerial meet on climate change saw consensus on the need to develop a new political strategy to ensure nations agree to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol in order to achieve a global peaking of emissions.

Uncertainty is growing over the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the first legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases blamed for warming the planet. Nearly 40 industrialised nations -- all except the US -- are meant to meet targets for emissions during the pact

As environment minister in the Portuguese government, Humberto D Rosa has been a leading negotiator at important conferences including the UN Convention on Climate change in Bali in 2007, the Copenhagen conference in 2009 and the recent Cancun Summit. In the context of the Portuguese presidency of the council of the European Union, his role at Bali was quite significant.

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