Climate Mitigation
Feature Articles
Geneva meeting pushes climate finance to top of Cancun agenda
Mministers and other top officials made progress on establishing the details of how hundreds of billions of dollars in climate aid will be raised and distributed.
Sep 2010
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
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Nations rethink Copenhagen commitment on climate funding
Sheila Mathrani Geneva: The informal climate change ministerial talks in Geneva hosted by the Swiss government to overcome the hurdle of tong-term financing of mitigation and adaption measures and its regulation on climate change evoked mixed responses from the players and NGOs.
07/09/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
News
Need for concerted response to tackle global warming stressed
“Imperative for nations to move away from blame game and set a roadmap”
CHENNAI: The urgent need for countries to sink their differences and evolve a concerted response to global warming and climate management was underscored by participants at a seminar here on Tuesday.
As important stakeholders, every nation should formulate action-plans to reduce carbon emissions keeping in mind the large
01/09/2010
Hindu (Chennai)
Feature Articles
Planting trees is not doing your bit
Small initiatives to save energy can go a long way in curbing emissions. To understand the ecological cost of power generation with hydel dams or thermal plants, think of the damage such dams cause to complex ecosystems in our hills and forests.
Sep 2010
Down to Earth
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Reports and Documents
Towards global carbon pricing: direct and indirect linking of carbon markets
Emissions trading systems (ETS) can play a major role in a cost-effective climate policy framework. Both direct linking of ETSs and indirect linking through a common crediting mechanism can reduce costs of action. Use a global recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model to assess the effects of direct and indirect linking of ETS systems across world regions.
Sep 2010
OECD
News
India's 'constant gardeners'
Local communities are creatively adapting traditional knowledge to cope with climate change
Keya Acharya / August 21, 2010, 0:41 IST
In some remote villages in India, which are most unlikely to pose as models of development, a quiet rejuvenation is taking place, with communities learning to adapt to the climate change reality of the country today.
Everyone knows by now that one of the fore
21/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Reports and Documents
Draft action plan on climate change - Puducherry
The draft action plan on climate change by Union Territory of Puducherry. It highlights various approaches and activities formulated for adopting six missions under NAPCC to mitigate the climate impacts.
Aug 2010
Government of Puducherry
Reports and Documents
Do forests provide mitigation benefits twice over?
In the run up to his first Presidential election, Ronald Regan became the butt of jokes and night time comedies when he said that trees cause more pollution than the cars. But Regan may not have been altogether wrong in his claim.
Aug 2010
Institute of Green Economy
News
MP Clean Development Mechanism Agency to be constituted
A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan here today decided to constitute a Madhya Pradesh Clean Development Mechanism Agency. This Agency will be registered under Madhya Pradesh Society Registration Act 1973.
19/08/2010
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Reports and Documents
Negotiating text - Ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action under the convention (AWGLCA), twelfth session, 4-9 October 2010, Tianjin, China
At its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative
Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) established drafting groups on a shared vision
for long-term cooperative action; enhanced action on adaptation; enhanced action on
mitigation; and finance, technology and capacity-building, to undertake work on the
Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) established drafting groups on a shared vision
for long-term cooperative action; enhanced action on adaptation; enhanced action on
mitigation; and finance, technology and capacity-building, to undertake work on the
Aug 2010
UNFCC
