Climate Change

No climate deal expected during Obama’s visit: U.S. official

While Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday reiterated that there was no role for any external review of targets that each country set for itself to cut carbon emissions,

Publication Date: 
12/12/2014
Meena Menon
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, United States Of America (US), Carbon Dioxide, Emission Targets, Peru, India, UNFCCC, Developing Countries, WTO, Climate Mitigation
Climate Change

Protecting mangroves can lower disaster risks, offer cash: experts

Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week.

Publication Date: 
12/12/2014
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Climate Change, UN, Peru, Carbon Dioxide, UNFCCC, UNEP, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, West Bengal, Vietnam
Climate Change

Can recent pan-tropical biomass maps be used to derive alternative Tier 1 values for reporting REDD+ activities under UNFCCC?

The IPCC Guidelines propose 3 Tier levels for greenhouse gas monitoring within the forest land category with a hierarchical order in terms of accuracy, data requirements and complexity. Due to missing data and/or capacities, many developing countries, potentially interested in the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation scheme, have to rely on Tier 1 default values with highest uncertainties. A possible way to increase the credibility of uncertain estimates is to apply a conservative approach, for which standard statistical information is needed.

Publication Date: 
08/12/2014
Andreas Langner, Frédéric Achard, Giacomo Grassi
Environmental Research Letters
1-12
Tags:
Deforestation, Climate Change, Biomass, Developing Countries, IPCC, Carbon Dioxide, Green House Gases, UNFCCC, Land Use
Climate Change

The Lima Climate Talks: Why agreement is proving so difficult and what to do about it

The climate talks in Lima are proving to be so difficult because the issue before the negotiators is whether the Climate Treaty of 1992 needs to be tweaked to take into account the changed context, or whether a new treaty is needed.

Publication Date: 
08/12/2014
Mukul Sanwal
Tags:
Climate Change, UNFCCC, Climate Agreements, United States Of America (US), China, European Union (EU), Kyoto Protocol, Developing Countries, Emission Targets, Carbon Dioxide, Conference Of Parties, India
Climate Change

The adaptation gap report 2014: a preliminary assessment

This first UNEP Adaptation Gap Report provides a framework for defining adaptation gaps and a preliminary assessment of the gap between adaptation needs and reality.

Publication Date: 
06/12/2014
UNEP
Tags:
Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Finance, Technology Transfer, Knowledge, Green House Gases, Adaptation Fund, Developing Countries, India, UNFCCC, Private Sector
Climate Change

What are the Centre and States doing to curb climate change, asks NGT

‘There is a conflict of interest between the Central Government and various States and because of this an important plan like the NAPCC has failed to get implemented in its true letter and spirit’

Publication Date: 
02/12/2014
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Ministry of Power, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), India, UNFCCC
Climate Change

Prior to climate deal, talks begin in Peru

LIMA: Amid hope to seal the climate deal in Paris next year, crucial negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in the Peruvian capital on Mond

Publication Date: 
02/12/2014
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Peru, UNFCCC, Global Warming, IPCC, India, China, United States Of America (US), Energy
Climate Change

What to expect at Peru

The negotiating platforms at Peru: Different bodies are mandated to negotiate for different elements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Publication Date: 
01/12/2014
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Tags:
COP 20 (Lima), Conference Of Parties, Climate Change, UNFCCC, Climate Agreements, Emission Targets, Kyoto Protocol, Green House Gases, REDD, Climate Adaptation, Developing Countries, China, India, Africa, United States Of America (US), New Zealand, Adaptation Fund
Climate Change

Reference document for REDD+ in India

The Reference Document is divided into 9 chapters starting with an introduction and overview of the subject, moving on gradually and logically to required policy framework to support REDD+ implementation as part of the forest management in the country.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2014
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
REDD, India, Forest Management, Deforestation, Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV), Climate Change, UNFCCC, Green House Gases, Conference Of Parties, Carbon Market, Forest Conservation
Air Pollution

FEC okays N9.3b stoves, others for national clean cooking scheme

THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday okayed the award of contract for the provision of engineering infrastructure to the Kyami District, Zone C, Abuja to the tune of N60.8 billion.

Publication Date: 
27/11/2014
Guardian (Nigeria)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Nigeria, Africa, Trees, Deforestation, UNFCCC, Fossil Fuels

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