Carbon colonialism

Northern companies sign cheap, long-term leases for land with East African governments, hoping afforestation activities to be a part of the clean development mechanism (CDM). Cheap development, we

NGOs in glass houses

Northern NGOs should focus on getting their own countries to meet commitments, rather than coming up with unfair methods of reducing emissions in developing countries

Per capita emissions of nations should converge by 2050, says UK commission

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution supports the Southern demand for equity in climate negotiations. Will the UK government adopt the recommendations?

Should fat cats guard the cream?

Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.

LULUCF: Will better science prevail?

Despite uncertainties, long drawn negotiations focus on sinks as an option for carbon mitigation.

Adaptation and Vulnerability: On the receiving end

Those least responsible for climate change are on the receiving end of most of its effects. The North has a responsibility to assist in adaptation.

Touchy Technology

Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer. While flawed this report will

Contracting texts to expand emissions

Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear

The infection that the South must avoid

Trading of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will result in a disastrous situation for the South.

Global warming in an unequal world

The answer to the current dilemma in negotiations is to make emissions from every citizen of the world count equally

Negotiating the future

On the eve of the start of the CoP 6 negotiations a quick look at representation in the Hague

Impacts: The hare and the tortoise

While findings on the impacts of climate change get bleaker and bleaker, the negotiations still hobble along at a snail's pace.

Small country, big example

St. Lucia shows the way at a meeting of politicians and NGOs that was sponsored by the Global Commons Institute, GLOBE, CSE, Climate Network Africa, and Counterpart Europe

Good Governance: Who's carbon hypocrisy

Should financial institutions be asked to stop funding fossil fuel projects in developing countries?

Will the mother of all deals be on sinks?

At CoP deals are being made behind closed doors and there is suspicion that the mega-deal will be on sinks despite the fact that it may not make good "carbon-sense"

Consenting adults in a hot world

Since we are all humans, and all equal, the question comes down to whether in the process of climate negotiations we are going to act like a bunch of raucous kids or a group of consenting adults

Water bodies cannot be diverted for industries: Supreme Court

It is illegal to allow a few to take over invaluable community resources, apex court says

Fossil Fuel Suicide Why fossil fools will cost us the Earth

fun and informative look at what harm fossil fuels cause and how renewable technologies can help stem the decline in our environment.

The far side

If the world is serious about addressing climate change it will have to immediately start moving out of fossil fuel technologies.

Sinks: No principles!

The working group on sinks finds principles most expendable!

African delusions

Will CDM really benefit Africa or will it end up like the largely failed AIJ program.