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| Differences remain at Major Economic Forum meeting | 19-SEP-09 |
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| The two-day Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting on Climate Change concluded here today with differences remaining on critical issues among members of this 17-country grouping including India. |
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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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| Kirit S Parikh: Surrender or success? | 14-AUG-09 |
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| India’s agreeing to the declaration on global warming at the major economies forum (MEF) in Italy has been criticised in and out of Parliament. India agreed with other countries to work to restrict the increase of the earth’s temperature to 2° Celsius. |
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| No carbon copies | 21-JUL-09 |
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| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the usual case for India accepting limits on its carbon emissions — the bulk of future carbon emissions, she said, would emanate from high-growth developing countries such as India and China and, therefore, the only way to avoid an environmental catastrophe was for them to follow a low-carbon development path. Despite its apparent logic, the argument has a critical flaw, which is that the rich countries have been environmental free riders all along and seek to continue to be free riders. The environment minister Jairam Ramesh did well, therefore, to make it clear that India would not accept any legally binding restrictions. If India is to move its millions from poverty to an acceptable living standard, it has to adopt industrialisation models, which are energy-intensive. |
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| Clouding the climate debate | 15-JUL-09 |
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| The deliberations at different forums at L’Aquila in Italy last week have further confounded the vexed issue of combating climate change. Instead of paving the way for a final agreement on emission reductions in the post-Kyoto period, after 2012, the voices emanating from these forums have added new dimensions to the issue which were not under negotiation thus far. What was expected, and also urgently needed, at this stage was to narrow the span of the climate change talks to firming up the country-specific targets of emission reduction for the Annexure-1 countries (for whom these cuts are binding), so that the non-mandatory but desirable action on the part of other countries could also be considered. Instead, the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the G-8 and that of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) have diverted the focus to vague goals based on equally indistinct parameters. |
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| Climate Forum to seek 50% global emissions cut by 2050 | 04-JUL-09 |
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| A multilateral forum on climate change is all set to call for a 50 per cent cut on global emissions by 2050 and an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions for industrialised nations, according to a draft declaration obtained by Kyodo News. |
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