Doha: After desperate attempts by the host country Qatar to save the talks, the UN conference on climate change on Saturday agreed to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol, which controls the greenhouse gas emissions of rich countries, through 2020.
As the talks went into an extra day and the President of the Conference of the Parties made a passionate plea to strike some deal before they pack up, nearly 200 participating countries agreed to keep the Kyoto Protocol alive for the next eight years. The historic pact, which was agreed to by countries in 1997, expires this year-end.
However, the new agreement only covers developed nations whose share of world greenhouse gas emissions is less than 15 per cent. The protocol locks in only developed nations, excluding major developing polluters such as China and India, as well as the US which refuses to ratify it. The protocol got extension with the EU, Australia, Switzerland and eight other industrialised nations signing up for binding emission cuts by 2020.
Conference Chairman Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, who "begged" to the countries to offer something out of the conference, termed the deal as the Doha Climate Gateway. The deal also includes agreement to scale up funding to help poor countries deal with global warming and convert to planet-friendlier energy sources....
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10:39 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will have a different kind of carnival this year. From June 20 to 22, the city will host the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which is expected to bring together heads of states, ministers, senior officials, representatives from international organisations, civil society leaders and environmentalists. Since the conference is a 20th year follow-up of the most famous environmental meeting held in the recent decades"the...
12:55 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Toronto: Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday, saying the accord won't help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country. Environment Minister Peter Kent said that Canada is invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto doesn't represent the way forward for Canada or the world. Canada, joined...
07:51 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Ottawa: Canada will pull out of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday, dealing a symbolic blow to the troubled global treaty. Canada will become the first country to formally withdraw from Kyoto, which it says is badly flawed because it does not cover all major emitters of greenhouse gasses, notably the United States and China. The news came as little surprise, especially since...
05:30 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Durban: After two weeks of chaos, infighting and mistrust, it's finally happened. All 196 countries cleared the text for a landmark deal at the Climate Summit in Durban. The breakthrough capped 13 days of hectic negotiations that saw high tension and drama between the developed and the developing nations. The existing regime Kyoto Protocol puts the onus only on the developed nations to curb emissions. Management of a climate fund...
09:52 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Durban: A major setback for developing countries like India at the UN Climate meet in Durban. India gave in on its tough position at the climate change conference in Durban, agreed with China to a treaty on emission cuts at a future date. The deal, which was sealed after a 36-hour delay puts all countries under a legal agreement to control greenhouse gases- something India and China had been opposing....
07:48 PM, Dec 11, 2011
Durban: A UN climate conference reached a hard-fought agreement on Sunday on a complex and far-reaching programme meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change for the coming decades. The 194-party conference agreed to start negotiations on a new accord that would put all countries under the same legal regime enforcing commitments to control greenhouse gases. It would take effect by 2020 at the latest....
10:34 AM, Dec 11, 2011
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It's that time of the year again. Yes, the end of the year, but the start of a another summit on climate change. This is ...
04:30 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Even as European Union has singled out India for being a deal-breaker, Kirit Parikh, a former negotiator and the current Chairman of the expert group of India's Low carbon strategy says that India is being painted as the devil due to lack of a good media outreach. ...
06:25 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Durban: As pressure increases on India to accept legally binding carbon emissions cuts, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan on Monday stressed on "equity" as a central tenet of the climate change talks. "Without a response based on equity we cannot solve the problem," Natarajan said at a side-event at the UN climate talks in Durban. "The architecture we create and promote should be based on recognition of these fundamental principles," she...
02:10 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Durban: The UN climate summit in Durban seems to have reached a deadlock. Sources told CNN-IBN that EU has blamed India for not being a deal maker as India continues to support the old treaty i.e. Kyoto Protocol that excludes developing countries like India and China from take up any binding commitments. 'If you want mangoes, you need to like a mango tree,' that's the message Africa gave to the...
11:14 PM, Dec 05, 2011
At the start of the next round of talks here at Durban, even as the head of the Indian delegation Jayanthi Natarajan has arrived, the European Union has floated the draft of a new climate treaty called the Durban Draft. The EU has blamed India for not being 'flexible' and being stuck to the old treaty i.e. the Kyoto Protocol. ...
12:52 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Durban: More than 6000 people gathered in Durban to ask for climate justice ahead of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. Meanwhile, India has insisted on continuing with the Kyoto Protocol instead of creating a new climate treaty. The appeal of the protestors are aimed at diplomats huddled in negotiations at the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change, who are looking at a new treaty to curb greenhouse gas...
08:44 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Durban: Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan will lead the Indian delegation in the second week of negotiation at the stalled climate talks that are yet to see a forward movement on crucial questions of carbon emission reduction and legally binding commitments. The first week of talks did not see breakthroughs on key issues like reduction of carbon emissions and setting up of the Green Climate Fund, which will provide $100 billion...
03:29 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Durban: Hundreds of protestors gathered, pushing for a strong treaty outside the Convention Hall, urging world leaders to push for a strong treaty at the UN Convention on climate change in Durban. Their appeal aimed at diplomats huddled in negotiations at the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change, who were looking at a new treaty to curb greenhouse gas emissions before the lapse of the Kyoto protocol. The crowd, estimated...
09:30 PM, Dec 04, 2011
Durban: Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures. Poor nations say wealthy countries became rich using coal, oil and gas and that they must be allowed to burn fossil fuels to escape poverty. Rich nations say major developing economies, such...
03:44 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Cancun: Facing pressure to accept legally-binding emissions cuts, India on Thursday made it clear that it will not budge from its long-held position on the issue, while insisting that it has shown flexibility on various other matters like domestic voluntary reductions. India was not ready to show flexibility at this stage on the issue of binding emission cuts and will insist on a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol...
04:13 PM, Dec 09, 2010
New Delhi: As hopes for any deal on global warming dims at the Cancun meet later this year, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Wednesday made it clear that the Kyoto Protocol will continue post 2012 as a second protocol since it does not have a "sunset" clause. "Yes, it (Kyoto Protocol) will continue to exist as a second protocol because it does not have a sunset clause. It does...
07:10 PM, Sep 08, 2010
US will be able to review what India and China do. ...
11:16 AM, Dec 21, 2009
Delegates rest, after a 24-hour period of plenary sessions. ...
12:02 AM, Dec 20, 2009
