The Paris agreement needs to be ratified by national parliaments, so it is scheduled to take effect only after 2020. So the post-COP world is divided into two phases – one between now and 2020, and the second after 2020. Here is a preview of challenges that lie ahead for world to combat global warming once the UN summit ends in Paris
Negotiations for the Paris climate agreement started with the host French government trying…Read more
India’s main challenge in tackling climate change is to find a way to meet its development goals while controlling the emissions. Here is a primer on how India’s climate policymaking has evolved over the years and its milestones
India’s development policies have acknowledged the need to protect nature. From the beginning of the twentieth century, the British and Indian governments have recognised…Read more
It is for the first time India has rented space for a country pavilion at COP to improves its outreach. Here’s how a country that was once known as a champion of the developing world, started losing ground in climate negotiations due to poor communication in recent years
India started the UNFCCC negotiations in the late eighties and early nineties from a position of strength. It had attended the Stockholm…Read more
As the United Nations climate summit in Paris is about to begin, here is a primer on how 192 countries and the European Union line up during the negotiations
In climate negotiations, countries usually do not act alone – they act in blocs. These blocs are often overlapping and their shifting as well as relatively constant positions can be confusing. They will be especially important during a climate…Read more
As the world is gearing up to negotiate on a new climate treaty in Paris, here’s a peek into how climate negotiations have evolved over the years
Scientists have known about climate change since 1896, when Svante Arrhenius published his findings on the effect of fossil fuel combustion on global temperature. But it was 1972 before policymakers actually started discussing the problem, at the United Nations Conference on the Human…Read more
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