Climate Change

REDD at the convergence of the environment and development debates international incentives for national action on avoided deforestation

Climate change, initially viewed as primarily an environmental concern, has become an extremely important and complex political, economic and
development issue. There is growing political impetus to agree to a new and more rigorous international legal framework for climate change
mitigation to replace, or at least extend, the current arrangements under the Kyoto Protocol.

Publication Date: 
31/12/2009
Philippa Venning
Law Environment And Development Journal
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REDD, Deforestation, Climate Change, Forest Conservation, Benefit Sharing, Development, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord, Climate Mitigation, India, Carbon Market
Climate Change

State of the forest carbon markets 2009: taking root & branching out

This State of the Forest Carbon Markets report presents new trends in global forest carbon offset markets that have not, until now, been comprehensively documented. This report was created to increase transparency and answer fundamental questions about the supply of forestry-based carbon credits, such as transaction volumes, credit prices, hectares influenced and tenure rights.

Publication Date: 
31/12/2009
Katherine Hamilton, Unna Chokkalingam, Maria Bendana
Ecosystem Marketplace
Tags:
Carbon Market, Forests, Global, India, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Kyoto Protocol, LULUCF, Joint Implementation, Carbon Sequestration, Carbon Dioxide, Deforestation, Carbon Offset, Climate Change
Climate Change

Copenhagen Cop-out, Kyoto Lives

As bw goes to press, the last day of the copenhagen climate summit still has some way to go. However, there is little hope for a treaty. Even the gathering of about 110 heads of government is not expected to break up the scrum in which their climate negotiators have been locked for 10 days.

Publication Date: 
28/12/2009
Feroz Ahmed
Business World (Kolkata)
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Climate Mitigation, Ethiopia, South Africa, Bangladesh, China, United States Of America (US), Brazil, India, Business World (Kolkata), Developing Countries, Feroz Ahmed
Climate Change

Talking about a revolution (editorial)

When the debate on the outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference took place in the Rajya Sabha, the Opposition charged the government with having slid back from the earlier commitment made to Parliament, and said that the country

Publication Date: 
28/12/2009
K. Subrahmanyam
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Parliament, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Copenhagen
Climate Change

Kyoto obit written in Copenhagen?

Shyam Saran Says Future Of Protocol Depends On Post-

Publication Date: 
28/12/2009
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, India
Climate Change

Copenhagen: Climate of mistrust

Two weeks of wrangling and grandstanding at the United Nations climate change conference ended with the

Publication Date: 
26/12/2009
Navroz K Dubash
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
UNFCCC, Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Climate Mitigation, China, Denmark, India
Climate Change

World looks ahead post-Copenhagen

Two lines of evidence nearly brought down the last-minute climate agreement brokered in Copenhagen by US President Barack
Obama: studies indicating that the impacts of global warming could be more severe than previously thought, and that rich countries could do more to counter the problem without breaking the bank.

Publication Date: 
24/12/2009
Jeff Tollefson
Nature
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Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Impacts, Climate Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Denmark
Climate Change

Emission details deadline Jan. 31

By early February, a clear picture would emerge to what extent countries were willing to commit themselves to emission cuts
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change chief R.K. Pachauri said on Wednesday that a target date of January 31, 2020 had been set for developing and developed countries to provide clear details of their emission cuts.

Publication Date: 
24/12/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Emission Targets, Global
Climate Change

The Copenhagen Accord: What happened? Is it a good deal? Who wins and who loses? What is next?

The two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen (7-18 December 2009) have been full of twists and turns. The outcome of the first phase, when heads of delegations and Ministers had the leadership, is a set of draft decisions, heavily bracketed, and not recognized by all Parties

Publication Date: 
23/12/2009
Emmanuel Gurin, Matthieu Wemaere
IDDRI
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Kyoto Protocol, Global, COP15, Copenhagen
Climate Change

Alternative track to Kyoto open

Acknowledgement By Minister As Oppn Blasts Hagen Deal In Parliament
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: In the face of a sharp attack from the opposition led by BJP, the government on Tuesday admitted that the Copenhagen climate accord provides for an alternative alignment to the Kyoto Protocol that developing nations like India believe is central to their concerns.

Publication Date: 
23/12/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Parliament, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), COP15

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