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India attends Petersberg Climate Dialogue
On April 28, 2020, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate change Shri Prakash Javadekar attended the 11th session of “Petersberg Climate Dialogue” representing India. Highlights The dialogue was hosted by Germany. It was co-chaired by United Kingdom. Over 30 countries participated in the dialogue. The dialogue discussed about measures to tackle COVID-19, save lives ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Climate change • Copenhagen Accord • Copenhagen Summit • Green Climate Fund • Kyoto Protocol • Paris Agreement • Petersberg Climate Dialogue • UNFCCC • United Nations
India to submit 2nd Biennial Update Report (BUR) on greenhouse gas inventory to UNFCCC
The Union Cabinet has recently approved Submission of India’s 2nd Biennial Update Report (BUR) to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), which contains 2014 updates of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. As per an official statement, in 2014, approx 2.607 billion tonnes of of CC-2 equivalent) of GHGs were emitted from all ..
Topics: Carbon finance • Copenhagen Accord • Environmental treaties • Greenhouse gas • Greenhouse gas inventory • Kyoto Protocol • Law by country • Politics by country • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting of Environment Ministers held in Durban
The 26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting of Environment Ministers was held in Durban, South Africa. The grouping is a bloc of four countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and China. It was attended by from BASIC countries and Michal Kurtyka of Poland, next president of Conference of Parties (COP-24) under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2018
Topics: BASIC countries • Copenhagen Accord • Environment • Environment Ministers Meeting • Green Good deeds • International • South Africa • UNFCCC
2010 – COP 16/MOP 6, Cancún, Mexico
2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010. This was the 16th session of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), so referred as COP 16. This was also the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2011
Topics: Ambo Declaration • Climate change policy • Copenhagen Accord • Environment • Global warming • In Denmark • Kyoto Protocol • Law by country • Politics by country • United Nations Climate Change Conference • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change