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In December, 2012 came a surprising report that it is very likely that the Arctic Ocean may become ice free in the summer months, if the global temperature continues to rise by more than 2 °C over the current level.
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Draft copy of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, as reported in The Times of India, BBSR, 15 December 2012.
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Stephen Schneider, The Times of India, 15 December 2009.
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The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992, Article 2.
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Id., Article 1.
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Ibid.
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Supra note 3.
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Id., Article 4.
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Id., Articles 7(1) and 7(2).
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Among the various reports the Reports of IPCC, UNEP, FAO and Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 are important.
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Stuart Lieberman, ‘Environmental Justice: An Appraisal’, I ICFAI Journal of Environmental Law, November 2002, at 76.
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IPCC was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to investigate the problem that is threatening the world.
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The report came in 13 November 2008.
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Available at www.unep.org.
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Ibid.
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Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity , Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, 2009.
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Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Global Biodiversity Outlook, 2010.
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The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan on 11 December 1997 and entered in to force on 16 February 2005. 184 Parties of the Convention have ratified this Protocol.
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The Indian Express, 31 October 2002.
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The Second Assessment Report was submitted in 1996.
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The Hindu Survey of the Environment, 1997, at 22.
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This remark was made in the sidelines of the Bali Conference held in December 2007, at Bali, Indonesia.
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Quoted by Ahmed Djoghlaf in ‘Protecting Biodiversity in Relation to Climate Change and Human Welfare’, 6(11&12) International Journal of Environmental Consurmerism, New Delhi, 2010 at 5.
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Nanda, S.K. (2018). From Rio to Doha: In Search of Cooperative Action for Climate Change. In: Nirmal, B., Singh, R. (eds) Contemporary Issues in International Law. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6277-3_12
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