The architecture of the Paris Agreement is a hybrid and provides for both bottom-up and top-down elements. While it can be argued that the Agreement predominantly comprises bottom-up elements, marked by countries choosing their own country-specific climate action plans and targets, there are also topdown mechanisms to consolidate and strengthen the implementation of the Agreement.
India is in the throes of an agrarian crisis. Indebtedness, crop failures, non-remunerative prices for crops and poor returns over cost of cultivation have led to distress in the farming sector.
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Published on Nov 29, 2015 Senior Indian climate change negotiator says that a global stock taking of the INDCs is essential, and the developed countries must do must enhance their CO2 reduction commitments post 2020.
Published on Nov 12, 2015 Mr. François Richier, Ambassador of France talks about the expectations from COP 21 Paris
Published on Dec 7, 2015 Chandra Bhushan talks about the first week of negotiations at the Paris Climate Change Conference COP21
Sunita Narain, Director General Centre For Science and Environment, Delhi talks about the wins and losses from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
Centre for Science and Environment says the accord will have no meaning, now that the world’s second largest polluter has pulled out of it
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.