Paris summit News

Previous UBC research shows that today's global fish catch is roughly 109 million metric tonnes.

The final version of a deal to combat global warming should be presented on Saturday by the French foreign minister, an official said on Friday.

The Tibetan plateau is deteriorating owing to the Chinese government's policies of re-shaping the landscape of Earth's highest and largest plateau, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a global advocacy group, said on Wednesday.

The hazardous smog enveloping Beijing highlights the urgency for a deal at the Paris summit to cope with climate change, China on Tuesday said as it acknowledged that the recurring smog could be due to its rapid economic growth.

The world's three major polluters China, EU and the US are expected to use much before the year 2030 at least 28 per cent of the total world's carbon space available for next 85 years, think-thank CEEW said.

Environment Ministers from across the globe will strive this week to transform a draft that has conflicting proposals into a concrete climate pact to cap greenhouse gas emissions amid India's assertion that it is going for the high-stakes talks with positivity.

India unfolded a much hyped 'Solar Alliance' on the sidelines of the climate change conference in Paris. A grand invitation extended to the 121 sunny nations to come together for making solar power accessible, its headquarters in Gurgaon and the Indian government seeks to inject Rs 400 crores as seed money.

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Disputes over how to share responsibility for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions and aiding climate-vulnerable countries are among the thorniest and longest-running issues in the 25-year-old UN climate process.

 The world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference on Monday pushed for investment in green energy on a global level and to secure a common agreement among the nations to tackle climate change.

Global tech giants Bill Gates, Jack Ma and India's industrialists Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani will join hands with governments from both the rich and emerging countries on Monday to kick off the Paris climate talks by pledging billions of dollars of investment in clean energy technologies.

A day ahead of the crucial climate conference in Paris, Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das Sunday pitched for "genuine provision" of climate change finance from developed to developing countries and not "clever accounting".

Commitments at the climate conference in Paris should be made taking into account the domestic development realities and high costs of transition to low-carbon growth, CII said.

Other large developing countries in many cases so far have only pledged to keep GHG emissions from increasing.

Young people warn that failure to achieve an agreement in Paris will not only have a disastrous impact on environmental issues but will also undermine key social problems.

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