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Letters - January 31, 2013
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
The power of trash
This is with reference to the article, “Redemption from litter” (September 1-15, 2012). The quantities of non-renewable resources like coal, oil and natural gas are decreasing and in the near future they would probably not be available at all. Several developed countries are saying farewell to fossil fuels and turning to renewable sources of energy. Waste is a good source.
CoP18, Doha: a gateway that leads nowhere
@sunitanar Posted on: 12 Dec, 2012
Doha climate talks score very low – perhaps fatally low – on the ambition to keep the world within safe limits, says Sunita Narain
US, equity and the elephants in the room
Posted on: 6 Dec, 2012
Indian top negotiator, R R Rashmi said yesterday at a side event we had organized on equity in climate negotiations that they could not use the word ‘equity’ in the final Durban Platform document because of the aversion to that word of a particular country. He said that they had to instead use the phrase, ‘under the convention’ meaning that future actions would be determined by the principles of the climate convention, which were based on equitably sharing of the world’s atmospheric space.
CSE-MoEF side event at CoP 18, Doha
Issue Date: Dec 6, 2012
'We cannot sell the idea of equity back home,' says US negotiator
Issue Date: Nov 29, 2012
The US made it clear it is not on the same page on equity as the developing nations.
“We cannot sell the idea of equity back home”: US negotiator
Issue Date: Nov 29, 2012
The future we do not want
Issue Date: Jun 25, 2012
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, came to an end last week. The conference declaration, titled “The Future We Want”, is a weak and meaningless document. It aims at the lowest common denominator consensus to say nothing consequential about how the world will move ahead to deal with the interlinked crises of economy and ecology. The question arises: is this the future we want or the future we dread?
Latest from Bonn climate negotiations
Issue Date: May 19, 2012
Equity, the new buzzword at Bonn climate negotiations
Issue Date: May 19, 2012
It was India, which at last year’s climate negotiations at Durban had insisted on bringing the principle of equity back into the agenda for tackling climate change. The concept, which not so long ago had almost fallen off the climate agenda now features in almost everyone’s negotiation agenda at the mid-year climate change meeting at Bonn. The testament to its regaining relevance in climate talks was a day-long workshop on May 17 organised by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), exclusively devoted to debating the concept of equity.
