India’s Climate Change Strategy: Expanding Differentiated Responsibility –...
As the world prepares for the upcoming climate change negotiations in Lima in 2014 and Paris in 2015, there is an expectation that the talks be more decisive than previous attempts at consensus from...
View ArticleProposed SDGs Won’t Capture the Imagination
Last week, leaders of U.N. member states began talks on the Sustainable Development Goals. Beginning 2016, the SDGs will guide the efforts of governments, international organizations, non government...
View ArticlePoor Nations Urged to Leapfrog Harmful HFC Refrigerants
SciDev.Net: Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these...
View ArticleEnvironment Ministers Discuss Ways to Conserve Biodiversity
A global meeting of environment ministers and heads of related international organizations began in the eastern city of Pyeongchang on Wednesday to discuss ways to conserve biodiversity for sustainable...
View ArticlePakistan at War With Climate Change
Having faced with problems of war on terror and chronic loadshedding, the incumbent government has to encounter the climate change question mark now. The policy framework, called the National Climate...
View ArticlePrakash Mathema: Poorest Countries Have the Most to Lose at UN Climate Talks
Nepal’s Prakash Mathema is leading the UN climate change negotiations for the group of Least Developed Countries Group (LDC). According to him, an ambitious outcome at the 2015 Paris UN summit can only...
View ArticleEU Reaches Consensus on Climate Change Targets
PTI: European Union leaders have reached a deal on a comprehensive package of climate targets, including a binding 40 per cent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the level of 1990 by 2030. They...
View ArticleIndia Wants Focus on Adaptation, CBDR to Tackle Climate Change
PTI: Ahead of UN Climate Conference, India on Monday made a strong pitch for focusing on adaptation and common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR) as part of the new global order on climate...
View ArticleGovt Forms Five-member Mechanism on Extreme Weather Forecasting
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment has decided to constitute ‘Extreme Weather Forecasting and information Dissemination Mechanism’ headed by Rishi Ram Sharma, Director General at the...
View ArticleMDGs: Climate Change Hampering Pakistan from Achieving Targets
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remains a challenge for Pakistan with the effects of climate change in the form of increasing floods, droughts and erratic storms. MDGs are a set of...
View ArticleClimatescope Report Shows China, Brazil, South Africa Have Boosted Clean...
For the first time this year, emerging economies such as China, Brazil and South Africa have made a larger investment on green energy than richer countries, according to a new government study. On...
View ArticleInfrastructure Development: We Can no Longer Sit Back and Wait
Nepal is primarily a mountainous country. To most people, this conjures up postcard-perfect pictures of trekking, tourism and natural beauty. But for the half of 28 million Nepalis who live in...
View ArticleNOC to Propose Integrated Project
Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) — the state-owned petroleum supply monopoly — is planning to propose integrated project for Raxaul-Amlekhgunj cross border petroleum pipeline and Amlekhgunj depot expansion...
View ArticleNew Carbon Scheme in South Korea Unlikely to Achieve Targets
A new carbon market in South Korea is unlikely to deliver the country’s emissions reduction targets as heavy emitters are being oversupplied with carbon credits from the outset, according to reports....
View ArticleIndia Set to Defy Warnings on Coal’s Climate Impact
Climate News Network: The man responsible for maintaining India’s power supply says he wants the country’s coal production to double within the next five years. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State for...
View Article‘India Firming up Stand it Will Present at Lima Conference’
PTI: India was firming up its stand which it will present in the crucial UN conference on climate change to be held in Peruvian capital Lima next month, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said...
View ArticleGovt Working to Minimise Climate Risks
Minister for Information and Communications Minendra Rijal said that the government was committed to minimising the risk posed by the global warming. Speaking at an interaction programme on Glacial...
View ArticleSAARC Workshop Begins
A two-day workshop has begun here from today to hold discussions on common problems to be raised by the 18 the SAARC Summit. The Summit is going to be held in Kathmandu from November 26 and 27....
View ArticleNepal Government Creating New Disaster Management Arm
Amid criticism it has been slow and ineffective in dealing with deadly natural disasters, Nepal’s government is moving to establish a National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) to orchestrate...
View ArticleIntl Meet Calls for Setting up EWS Stations Across Himalayas
Press Trust of India: An international conference on climate change, attended by experts from countries including India, today underlined the need to install more stations across Himalayas so as to...
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