Download Here India’s goals for economic growth are ambitious; the Indian Government is aiming to achieve human development on a par with EU countries. There is also an intention to deliver ‘access to electricity for all’ in India during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term in office. At the same time, India is a country […]

India and African nations decided on Thursday to step up cooperation to fight climate change and terrorism, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for partnership in these key areas amid shared concerns about global warming and extremist groups like Boko Haram. At the third India-Africa summit in Delhi, visiting leaders backed Modi’s […]

[New Delhi, 2 October 2015]: With their national climate action commitment, lodged today, the Indian government has committed to reduce #GreenHouseGas emissions intensity – the ratio between gross emissions and a country’s GDP  – by 33-35% of its 2005 levels by 2030. To achieve this target  India will ensure that about 40% of its electricity […]

Negotiations towards a global climate change agreement resumed in Bonn, Germany, on Monday with a gathering of all 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and observer organisations. Developing countries were unanimous in their criticism of the text produced by the co-chairs. While many developed countries—the EU, the US, New […]

Social movements, environmental and development NGOs, trade unions, faith and other civil society groups have assessed commitments made by 150 countries around the world. The findings have been published in a report titled “Fair Share:A Civil Society Equity Review of INDCs” ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris. The report shows that there is […]

NEW DELHI: Making its suggestions to the latest draft text of the Paris climate agreement, India on Monday pitched for inserting specific paragraph on the issue of finance and transfer of technology in the text. India wants the developing countries must be provided with cutting-edge environment friendly technology free of cost where the intellectual property […]

As part of the series of state consultation directed at raising the profile of low carbon development in India and reflect on the priorities of states in international negitiations, one day consultation is organised in Kolkata on 29th October 2015. The West Bengal State Consultation is organised in partnership with Concern Worldwide, INECC and Embassy […]

The urgency of #ClimateChange, demonstrated by events such as Typhoon Hiyan, did not get addressed by the Warsaw climate talks sufficiently which failed to rise to the occasion to make decisive decisions to address the concerns of the vulnerable population of the world, especially in developing countries. It failed to provide immediately needed climate finance to […]

The climate crisis is the single biggest challenge facing humanity. Carbon pollution needs to peak in the next few years otherwise we will be unable to secure a safe climate. Governments of the world are here in Warsaw this week to move forward with a global climate action plan. However, there is deep frustration amongst […]

Download Here The paper titled “Understanding the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action: Developing Country Mitigation Framework under the Convention” aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) framework and enhance the understanding on NAMAs by explaining the Conference of the Parties (COP) decisions in layman’s terms. The paper is intended to […]