Climate Change

Climate talks hit turbulence as LDCs walk out, agree to return

The crucial climate talks were suspended for a while today, after India and other emerging nations walked out protesting that the rich countries were making attempts to shirk responsibility in tackling global warming.

Publication Date: 
15/12/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, South Africa, China, Brazil, India
Energy

Nuclear's next generation

DWIGHT EISENHOWER observed in his

Publication Date: 
12/12/2009
Economist (London)
Tags:
Canada, Nuclear Power, Electricity, Nuclear Proliferation, South Africa, China, Japan, South Korea, France, Russia, Switzerland, United States Of America (US), Argentina, Brazil, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Climate Change

Wen calls up Manmohan on Copenhagen

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to exchange views on the climate change conference at Copenhagen. During their 10-minute telephonic conference, the leaders were said to have discussed ways of taking the climate summit forward.

They agreed that the two sides would keep in touch in the run-up to this conference.

Publication Date: 
11/12/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, South Africa, China, Brazil, India
Climate Change

Danish draft vs Basic draft is the great fight at climate change meet

Amitabh Sinha

Publication Date: 
10/12/2009
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, South Africa, China, Denmark, Brazil, India
Climate Change

EU raises stakes on emissions reductions

The European Union withdrew an offer to increase its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target on Monday because it said similar offers made by many nations in the past month were inadequate to prevent significant climate change.

Publication Date: 
08/12/2009
Financial Times (London)
Tags:
Climate Change, Green House Gases, Emission Targets, South Africa, China, South Korea, Denmark, United States Of America (US), Brazil, India, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

BASIC draft calls for technology transfer mechanism

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The four emerging economies

Publication Date: 
05/12/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Climate Mitigation, Adaptation Fund, South Africa, China, Brazil, India
Climate Change

Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level

This book builds on related experience of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre in the areas of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, Access and Benefit-Sharing

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
John Costenbader
IUCN
Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Use, Carbon Sequestration, Benefit Sharing, Cameroon, South Africa, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Guyana, India, REDD
Climate Change

Jairam Ramesh to meet counterparts from Brazil, South Africa in China

India and China are on the same page as far as negotiations are concerned but not on the emissions front, said Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh. He was speaking on the sidelines of the CII Sutainability Summit held here today.

Publication Date: 
27/11/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Agreements, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), South Africa, China, Brazil, India, Sustainable Development
Biodiversity

Let the locals lead

To save biodiversity, on-the-ground agencies need to set the conservation research agenda, not distant academics and non-governmental organizations, argue Robert J. Smith and colleagues.

Publication Date: 
19/11/2009
Robert J. Smith, Diogo Verssimo, Nigel Leader-Williams & et al
Nature
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7271
280
Tags:
Conservation Science/ Research, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Biodiversity Hotspots, Public Participation, NGO, South Africa
Peace And Disarmament

South Africa in talk with friendly countries on nuclear energy use

Sandeep Dikshit

NEW DELHI: Despite the ratification of the Treaty of Pelindaba that prohibits African nations from nuclear commerce with countries that have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), South Africa has said it is talking to

Publication Date: 
17/11/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Nuclear Power, Peace And Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation, South Africa

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