Vienna climate meet sets the stage for a deal on HFC phase-down
Amendment to Montreal Protocol should be ambitious and should provide provisions to address energy efficiency, says CSE
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.
It is a compromise deal, in many ways it can be termed as lowest minimum denominator
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.
Draft Paris agreement text has been released
A joint statement made by Prof. T Jayaraman from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Prof. Anand Patwardhan from University of Maryland and IIT-Mumbai and Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, CSE
New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) releases exhaustive study of the US Climate Action Plan and says the world’s most powerful economy is doing very little to combat climate change.