US fast food companies in India not doing enough to cut down on emissions of HFCs, a super greenhouse gas, says CSE
Date: September 16, 2016
Date: September 16, 2016
COP22 was supposed to be Action COP meant to flesh out the finer details of the Paris Agreement Paris Agreement came into force much earlier than expected; countries were not prepared for the negotiations as they expected ratification to happen later Election of Donald Trump dominated the deliberations at COP No raise in ambition from developed countries in terms of emission reductions or financial contributions for pre-2020 period Discussions on issues have been postponed to the next COP
Is quibbling over the 2020-22/ 2024-26 baseline for A5 parties worthwhile to achieve an ambitious HFC amendment? An analysis and appeal by Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi As we enter the last three days of negotiations in Kigali, we see a sense of accommodation and flexibility within parties. However, this positive environment is being sullied due to quibbling by the A2 parties about the proposed baseline years of the A5 parties.
Date: October 13, 2016:
scheduled to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 25-26 August, 2016.
A scoping study on the role of agriculture insurance in protecting farmers of Asia and Africa from extreme weather events
A media briefing and knowledge-sharing workshop on drought, climate change and what Indian villages are doing to adapt and mitigate
The recent negotiations around the HFC phase-down amendment to the Montreal Protocol have made an assessment of alternatives to HFCs crucial. Natural alternatives to HFCs are low GWP, non-patented and energy efficient. A transition to these alternatives would minimize costs and maximize energy and emissions savings.
Amendment to Montreal Protocol should be ambitious and should provide provisions to address energy efficiency, says CSE
In the ongoing negotiations to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase-down the use of hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), Intellectual Property Rights of substitute chemicals—mainly unsaturated HFCs (also called HFOs) and its blends—have become a major point of difference between developed and developing countries.
Centre for Science and Environment organized a side event in the COP21 at the India Pavillion along with the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change titled “Equity and Climate Justice: Operationalising Equity and the Global Carbon Budget.” Secretary Ashok Lavasa started the conversation claiming “Climate change is a consequence of the path of economic development chosen by the world and developing country should be denied this development.”
Friday, December 11; 6 PM CET/10.30 PM IST Centre for Science and Environment invites you to attend the press conference discussing the progress in drafting the climate change agreement and the likely Paris Outcome. CSE Director General Sunita Narain and Deputy Director General Chandra Bhushan will be present at the briefing. It would be held in Press Conference Room 3 which can be seen as a webcast through this link.
Date: December 12, 2015
Takeaways from the current draft
December 10, 2015 As the Paris talk shift gear and move towards closure, a coalition led by the United States and European Union has emerged and talks are heading for an agreement even though contentious issues are unresolved and continue to simmer.