Understanding climate change

Did climate change begin with industrialisation? How do we identify ‘bad’ climate change?

Cooling Earth

Municipalities in the Netherlands are exerting pressure on the national government to reduce carbon dioxide emission by half by AD 2010

He pricked our conscience

Charles David Keeling showed how human activity causes global warming

Environment Day Special

Carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

Green blah

Is the desire for a cleaner environment a mere faddish concern? Some Dutch wisdom goes sour during a recent greenhouse debate

Pongamia power enables Adilabad villagers to export carbon credits to Germany

When Gond tribals of Chalpadi village in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh agreed this April to export 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in …

Methane matters

But surely not more then carbon dioxide?

Better be prepared

Climate change can have serious effects on crops

Death pits darken green fields in Haryana

Carbon dioxide trapped in pits built for tubewell motors in Haryana's green revolution districts have killed hundreds of farm-workers. Scientists …

A meaningful TREATY?

The Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention is the first step towards defining the emissions reduction targets of industralised countries.…

Sinks: A carbon reservoir

There is lot os uncertainly on the question of carbon sinks. To what extent can they actually absorb carbon dioxide emissions? And, should …

Heat and Gas

The proposed construction of two gas-fuelled power plants has become a hotly debated issue in Norway

Don't let the carbon go

Be careful how land-use and land-cover changes

Congestion in the skies is costing India dearly

Power that could bomb

The Bush administration unveils new energy policy with an intention to revive nuclear reactors and to build new plants. Joining hands with …

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

Fuel cell buses for Delhi Going nowhere?

Grants have been approved to facilitate the use of fuel cell buses in the developing countries

Race to kill kyoto protocol

As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …

The sinking debate

The climate change negotiations have come to a halt over the issue of sinks. Neelam Singh discusses the associated complications

Newest Biggest Deal

In Kyoto, in 1997, nations of the world agreed the Clean Development Mechanism (cdm) was a competent way to combat climate change. The process …

Frozen at gateway

The Doha outcome is all talk no action. In 2007, the Bali Action Plan had called for an urgent reduction in carbon emissions by developed …

Pact politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to ratify the Kyoto protocol without the US, world's biggest polluter

Climate change conference- World leaders fail to act again

The 12th Conference of Parties to the UN climate convention saw the setting up of an adaptation fund to help poor countries. Ritu Gupta …

Rescued or doomed

Nations adopt a diluted agreement at Bonn on implementing the Kyoto Protocol. 180 countries finally reached an agreement on the rules to …

Montreal Protocol: A successful treaty?

Even as the fate of HFCs hangs in uncertainty, there remains much at stake for the Montreal Protocol