Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in partnership with Coastal Development Partnership (CDP) is organizing a Report release and panel discussion on ‘Climate change Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation in Sunderbans’.
Makes her first public address in Durban at a side event organised by CSE in association with the ministry
Three doog lines from The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot provide an objective correlative of what happened November 28 to December 9, 2011 at the Nkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention centre, where the 17th climate conference is being held: “Let us go then, you and I? When the evening is spread upon the sky? Like a patient etherised upon a table”
India's environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan speaks during a break of the final negotiation process of the CoP17 at Durban
Chandra Bhushan Durban, December 9: Today morning at 8.00 am the Indaba Text, which is a proposal of the CoP Chair on the major outcomes from the Durban conference, was released. The text has the following elements which could eventually form the basis of a Durban declaration or agreement:
Anju Sharma, Independent researcher, tracks negotiations on climate finance and discusses the outcome of the Durban talks
NGO's from around the world protest inside the convention center sneaking passed the UN security
Durban, December 7: Transcript of the US press briefing by Todd Stern, Durban, December 7, 2011 Todd Stern: Negotiations are continuing...Both Kyoto and what happens in the future, questions and the issues relating to implementation of Cancun Agreement... Let me take your questions.
Durban, December 8, 2011: At the deliberations on REDD+ in the meetings of the SBSTA (Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice), India has reportedly devoted its time and energy in ensuring safeguards for the rights of indigenous communities and for conserving natural forests, giving the lie to the impression that nothing was being done on the issue. In fact, Indian negotiators point out that of the three elements under discussion in the SBSTA (safeguards, MRV and benchmarks), safeguards is the only one which has been thoroughly discussed.
Do no support companies that burn waste, said the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers at a protest demonstration during the COP17 at Durban