| Nancy Birdsall & Arvind Subramanian: Reduce verbal emissions first | 21-NOV-09 |
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| The emerging consensus is that no agreement on climate change — at least not one with specific commitments — will be reached at next month’s summit in Copenhagen. Environmentalists and policy-makers in many countries are dismayed and discouraged. But, in fact, now the world has an opportunity to fix the problem which has stymied successful cooperation on climate change. |
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| 'We should not expect much from Copenhagen summit' | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Asking Indians not to expect much from the climate change conference in Copenhagen, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the government would follow a "twin track" approach of not binding itself to any global agreement but at the same time putting in place "ruthless" measures to cut emissions on the domestic front. |
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| Meat of the matter | 15-NOV-09 |
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| Intense debate on non-vegetarianism continues with flexitarianism emerging as the new diet fad. |
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| Surjit S Bhalla: Need for a change in climate | 07-NOV-09 |
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| Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh struck several chords when he suggested, via a leaked letter to the prime minister (PM), that the time had come for a gear shift in India’s policy towards climate control. Traditionalists roared disapproval, and climate-control negotiators seemed satisfied that order was restored. But there just might be more to the leaked letter. |
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| US, EU agree to reduce global emissions by 50% | 04-NOV-09 |
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| The United States and the European Union today vowed to reduce global emission by 50 per cent by the year 2050 and agreed to promote an "ambitious and comprehensive" international climate change agreement in Copenhagen. |
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| Developed nations must cut emissions to tolerable levels: PM | 22-OCT-09 |
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| In the run-up to the Copehnagen summit, India today asked rich nations to make "serious" efforts to bring down their greenhouse gas emissions to tolerable levels and asserted that developing countries "cannot and will not" compromise on development. |
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| 'India planning aggressive cuts in emissions' | 23-SEP-09 |
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| India is planning “aggressive” cuts in emissions in a time-bound manner but the country will not compromise on its target to achieve 8 per cent economic growth a year, Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh has said. |
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| Well-intended move | 09-SEP-09 |
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| The forest and environment ministry's proposal to give fiscal incentives to the states that are maintaining their forest cover and are taking steps to improve it seems a well-intended move aimed at protecting the country's vital, as also threatened, forest resources. Such financial assistance can help state governments to withstand, even if only to an extent, the ever-increasing pressure to divert forest land for other purposes. The simultaneous announcement of the intent to extend such sops to the local self-governments as well is equally significant, as the actual implementation of the programmes is taken care of at that level. What is important here is the involvement of the local stakeholders, which include the tribal people and others forest dwellers who rely solely on the forests for their livelihood. |
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| Sunita Narain: Who's afraid of 2-degree C? | 14-AUG-09 |
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| It is important to unravel the latest fuss about the 2°C global temperature target India apparently acceded to at the Major Economies Forum in L’Aquila, Italy. The declaration, by the world’s 20 biggest and most powerful countries, said it recognised the scientific view that increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels should not exceed 2°C. |
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