| Climate talks in Barcelona important: Boer | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Noting that climate talks in Barcelona were not meant to resolve tough political issues on finance and emission reduction targets, United Nations climate chief, Yvo de Boer, said the negotiations before the Copenhagen summit should be used to consolidate areas of consensus. |
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| Green technologies can be profitable, say global CEOs | 30-OCT-09 |
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| The public discourse on climate change has tended to frame the issue as a tradeoff between development and greening; as a choice between generating wealth and creating a less carbon-intensive environment. |
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| India, China sign 5-yr pact to tackle climate change | 22-OCT-09 |
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| India and China today signed a five-year agreement to jointly fight climate change and negotiate international climate deals. The two countries also set up a Joint Working Group (JWG) that will hold annual meetings alternately in China and India to discuss respective domestic policies and measures and implementation of related cooperative projects. |
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| India's stance on climate change non-negotiable, says Ramesh | 21-OCT-09 |
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| Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh today categorically stated that while India was prepared to discuss and periodically make public the implementation of its National Action Plan on climate change, it would never accept internationally legally binding emission reduction targets or commitments as part of any agreement or deal or outcome. |
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| Deadlock on climate change continues | 13-OCT-09 |
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| The stalemate over carbon emission cuts continues with the developed countries failing to deliver on issues like setting concrete targets for reduction even after the latest round of negotiations in Bangkok, according to a UN Climate Change team. |
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| Not prize-winning | 12-OCT-09 |
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| Despite the predictable surprise at the announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to a Barack Obama, the prize seems to have given him a popularity boost—with his approval ratings improving to 56 per cent, up from 50 per cent last month. Most commentaries in connection with the Nobel announcement have naturally focused on the rookie President’s international policy stances, but it is on the domestic front that his failures are glaring. It is clear, for instance, that his attempt at reforming the US medical system has all but failed, though the requiem is still to be sung. Some key policy proposals have already been thrown out, and what remains also seems likely to be rejected by Congress. Non-Americans may find it hard to understand why the US finds it so difficult to reform a system that is obviously dysfunctional but, as in so many reform battles, the uncomplicated truth is that the lobby groups have won. |
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| We should partner with Japan on green tech: Ramesh | 23-SEP-09 |
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| Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh expressed hope of a long-term partnership with Japan in the field of green technology, praising the message given by Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at the high-level Climate Change Summit here. |
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| Nalco's four projects get enviroment clerance | 20-JUL-09 |
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| In a boost to its environment-friendly drive, National Aluminium Company's (Nalco) four environment projects under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have been cleared by the Ministry of Forest and Environment. |
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| The two-degree limit | 17-JUL-09 |
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| It is not a national cap, but where is the equity angle?
News reports have raised the question whether India gave away more than it should have in the discussions on climate change, at the recent meeting in Italy of the G-8 and G-5. It has been said that in agreeing to work towards a cap on how much the temperature of the earth should be allowed to change (2 degrees Celsius), the government has de facto agreed to accept quantifiable limits on India’s own emission of greenhouse gases, |
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| 'India will renegotiate emission reduction target' | 30-JUN-09 |
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| India today said that it would not "negotiate or renegotiate" the UN Framework on Climate Change but will "renegotiate" the emission reduction target which the developed nations have to take at the Copenhagen meet slated in December. |
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| Nitin Desai: Climate conflicts | 18-JUN-09 |
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| The Bonn climate talks ended last Friday with little to show by way of results. However, the deadline for agreement is December 2009 and in such negotiations, at this stage, we consider it progress if countries agree on what they disagree about. This seems to have happened and differences were consolidated into a form that allows the negotiation to move forward. |
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| FAO pushes for inclusion of farmers in new climate pact talks | 03-APR-09 |
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| The UN food organisation has asked for including the issue of 'farming' in the talks for a new pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol, as agricultural activities and deforestations together account for more than 30 per cent of hazardous emissions. |
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| Carbon trading not enough | 20-MAR-09 |
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| By expressive their exasperation at not being able to convince the public and political leaders about how close the earth has come to climate catastrophe, the environment scientists who gathered at Copenhagen last week for a global meet on climate change were signalling having reached a cul-de-sac. Whatever little was happening on emission reductions through the carbon trading mechanism has been halted by the collapse of the carbon market, in the wake of the global economic recession. |
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