IMO Opens the Door to Reduce Shipping Emissions

United Nations negotiations to contain emissions from planes and ships recommence in Montreal and London this week, with hopes for a global climate change deal in 2015 resting on these two sectors. OnlyChina, USA, India and Russia emit more ...

As countries have begun to discuss their vision of a 2015 climate agreement, the issue of the responsibility of each has emerged as one of the hottest elements of the negotiations. The views of different negotiating actors are spread over a wide ...

Who will take the lead in mitigation? Will developed countries, with their historical responsibility, take the lead? Or, will it fall on emerging economies on whom there is considerable pressure already? As it stands now, for the developed world, mitigation ...

The United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn are more of the same and we are running out of time. Everybody recognizes that there is a gap, but there are no concrete proposals to solve the gap. Most delegations prefer not to put a number on the ...

Who is the most responsible for the world hurtling beyond 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere? For many it is straightforward. The USA is out on its own in terms of historical CO2 emissions. Data from the US Department of Energy's Carbon ...

As the discussion within the IMO moves from technical and operational measures to Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and Market Based Measures (MBM), the issue of technology transfer is expected to take centre stage. Any new deal on the ...

TWN Info Service on UN Sustainable Development (Apr13/05) Third World Network An earlier version was published in SUNS #7573 Thursday 25 April 2013 New Delhi, 24 April (Ranja Sengupta) Substantive work on formulating sustainable development goals ...

-8 has underscored the gaps and failures in global economic governance, and that developing countries be equitably represented in international financial institutions (IFIs) and have an increasing voice in global economic governance. "The current ...

Overview: Agriculture and the climate change challenge Agriculture plays a central role in providing global food security and ensuring rural livelihoods for two-thirds of the developing world and 40 percent of the world's population; it is ...