Internal briefing paper accessed by The Hindu shows U.S. wants to promote its tech firms

In an internal briefing paper prepared for its diplomats across the world before the Warsaw climate negotiations, which The Hindu accessed, the U.S. has opposed the setting up of a separate mechanism on ‘loss and damage’. It has also pushed primarily for the role of private investments and finance to enable the poor countries to adapt to climate change.

Several developing countries, including India, have opposed the call for all countries to provide emission reduction pledges at a special session of heads of state in September 2014.

Tiny island states that speck the vast swathe of the Pacific Ocean have a far greater importance in understanding global climate change than their tiny populations would suggest.

India, China and other countries in the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group on Tuesday formally took the position that the new climate agreement must not force developing countries to rev

A day before the formal opening of the U.N. climate negotiations, delegates from more than 190 countries began informal parleys to set up common positions and strategies.

It refers to demands of poorest countries that they must be compensated for inevitable losses caused by the existing level of greenhouse gas emissions, which any amount of reduction of future emiss

Team to reassert importance of historical emissions in the discussions at Warsaw

The Union Environment and Forests Minister Jayanthi Natarajan and climate negotiators’ team got the approval from the Union Cabinet on Thursday to reassert the importance of historical emissions in the new climate agreement, which is to be discussed at Warsaw beginning November 11.

‘India must seek to ensure that new deal remains embedded within existing U.N. framework’

The Union Cabinet is likely to decide the non-negotiables for the coming climate change negotiations on Thursday. It will take a call on the shape of the new global agreement that India would push for at these talks and over the next two years till the pact is signed in 2015.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Wednesday accorded ActionAid Bangladesh the ‘Lighthouse Initiatives 2013′ award for its success in empowering rural women to fa