About a week back, India submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The date of the announcement was chosen to coincide with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi — an ardent environmentalist himself. The 38-page document goes on to quote Gandhi on … [continued]
Last time we visited the topic of the draft treaty for December’s international talks on cutting post-2020 carbon emissions, the co-chairs of the United Nations ADP (Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action), Ahmed Djoghlaf of Algeria and Daniel Reifsnyder of the United States, promised delegates that … [continued]
In Bonn on Friday, the numbers came out for the nations making public their plans to cut back on carbon emissions and slow the rate of climate change. Representing three-quarters of the total membership of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (which comprises almost all nations of the world, at … [continued]
Originally published on WRI. By Viviane Romeiro and Rachel Biderman This week Brazil formally submitted its climate plan, also known as its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). The country’s INDC comes on the heels of joint climate change declarations it’s made in recent months with China, Germany and the United … [continued]
Originally published on WRI. WRI reaction to Brazil’s INDC: “Brazil is playing a productive role in the global effort to fight climate change. The country is building momentum by calling at the highest level for a goal to phase out emissions from the global economy over the course of this … [continued]
Australia’s emission reduction targets are woefully inadequate, according to Climate Action Tracker, which found Australia to have one of the weakest climate targets in the world. On August 11th, Australia submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the Paris Climate Agreement of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030 of … [continued]
In a whirlwind journey to meet with her counterpart Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany cemented an important climate link between the largest economies in Europe and Latin America this week. Their national ties go back centuries to the first German immigration to Brazil about 200 years … [continued]
US presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton made two promises last week in her initial pledge to make the US a clean energy superpower. In the first, she committed herself to tax incentives that would help install half a billion solar panels nationwide within four years of her taking office. Her second … [continued]
China must reduce its dependence on coal, and shift its attention to a variety of energy sources, if the country is to have long-term energy security. These are the primary findings from new research published by the University of East Anglia in England. The new study was published in the journal Technological … [continued]
Late on Friday, July 24, Algerian diplomat Ahmed Djoghlaf and US envoy Daniel Reifsnyder, who co-chair the group that will finalize a universal UN climate change agreement in Paris at the end of the year, issued a long-awaited new version of the draft agreement. It comes closer to setting all … [continued]
