-The Hindu The Cabinet will take a call on the shape of a new global agreement that India would push for at the for the upcoming climate change talks and over the next two years till it is signed in 2015. The Union Cabinet is likely to decide the non-negotiables for the upcoming climate change negotiations on Thursday. The Cabinet will take a call on the shape of the new global agreement...
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UNEP Report Finds Significant “Emissions Gap” Must Be Bridged-Taryn Fransen and Kelly Levin
-World Resources Institute A new report from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that the world is still not taking enough action to avoid dangerous levels of climate change. Assuming countries deliver on the pledges they have made to reduce their respective emissions, the Emissions Gap Report finds that global GHG emissions in 2020 will still be 18 to 27 percent above where they need to be if warming is likely...
More »Cleaner cookstoves can boost health and slow global warming-Mark Tran
-The Guardian World Bank report calls for action to cut common pollutants such as soot, which could save millions of lives every year Cleaner cookstoves could save a million lives every year, but costs need to decrease sharply for poor households in developing countries to be able to afford them, according to a World Bank report. On thin ice: how cutting pollution can slow warming and save lives, published on Sunday evening, calls...
More »Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies-Justin Gillis
-The New York Times Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world's food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found. In a departure from an earlier assessment, the scientists concluded that rising temperatures will have some beneficial effects on crops in some places, but that globally they will make it...
More »Rich countries have paltry climate targets: UN analysis-Nitin Sethi
-The Hindu The developed countries have committed to cut their greenhouse gas emission levels by a paltry 3% between 201 and 2020, shows new data analysis by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is less than a third of the emission reduction the rich countries have achieved between 1990 and 2011. The UNFCCC secretariat carried out a technical review of the commitments rich countries have made so far to...
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