... Grimson. At his invitation, a seminar on the third pole, the Himalayas, was
organized
at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik in 2011. In 2013, a similar workshop was held in Dehradun. Notably, it was attended by a representative delegation from China, which was seen by its participants as a desire of New Delhi and Beijing to start a dialogue on regional issues from their scientific “component.”
D Suba Chandran:
Polar Regions Offer Enough Space for India and Russia to Map What Nations Can ...
... sufficient scope to create a platform for bringing the standards in national and regional ETS systems into greater conformity, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Yaroslav Lissovolik.
Across the continent Eurasia, major constituencies such as the EU, China and Russia are forging ahead with their plans to develop an emissions trading system (ETS). The system works by putting a limit on overall emissions which is reduced each year. Within this limit, companies can buy and sell emission allowances – ...
... cost: for instance,
damages from forest fires in the unusually hot summer of 2010 were estimated at about 500 billions of roubles, or 1.2 % of the Russian GDP at the time
.
Two-thirds of global CO2 emissions are generated in just
ten countries with China, the US, India, and Russia topping the list
. Per capita emissions however vary: for instance, these were 6.7 metric tons per capita in China against 17 tons per capita in the US, according to
the World Bank data for 2011-2015
.
UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol ...
