India has submitted to the UN its proposed emission intensity cut targets by 20-25 per cent by 2020, a day before the expiry of the world body's deadline for submitting the climate change mitigation steps under the Copenhagen Accord.
The stage is set to find young minds that can come up with ideas to wage a war against global warming.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday expressed disappointment over the climate change accord finalised at the Copenhagen Summit last year, reports Ramesh Babu.
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R.K. Pachauri, head of the United Nations panel on climate change, on Wednesday said international “consultation” and “analysis” of unsupported domestic mitigation action in the Copenhagen accord would not challenge India’s sovereignty.
As climate scientists described the Copenhagen climate accord as a disappointment, Europe — which drafted the accord — blamed India, China and US for the ‘weak’ document.
Back from the Copenhagen Summit, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has mooted a new law that denies bail to people charged with rampant tree felling.
The US claim that India's domestic climate actions can be challenged was dismissed by the government as a remark of a "spin doctor" for domestic consumption while a top climate expert said the Copenhagen accord brooked no such interference.
The world may have agreed to 2 degrees Celsius rise in temperature by 2050, but it will not be long before there is an agreement on 1.5 degrees Celsius, if the Copenhagen accord fructifies.
Rajendra K. Pachauri, the man who told the world how dangerous the changing climate was for survival of humans, is now accused of earning a fortune from the science.
External affairs minister S.M. Krishna will travel to Beijing for a four-day visit in April next year to strengthen bilateral ties, picking up the strings from the Copenhagen climate summit where the two countries worked “closely and effectively”.
Australia will do "no more and no less" than other nations to fight climate change, the government said on Tuesday, as it prepared to set its greenhouse gas pollution targets after talks in Copenhagen.
IPCC Chairman R K Pachauri termed the Copenhagen accord "a step forward as it limits temperature level to two degree Celsius" and said India has more or less managed to safeguard its concerns on emission cuts.
Post Copenhagen, the government plans to call a meeting of state energy ministers to discuss the issue of enhancing energy efficiency.
Nobody is ever responsible for anything, it seems, after Copenhagen. The rich countries, primary contributors to this mess, have got away scott free, reports
Bharti Chaturvedi.