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.

Outsourcing commitments

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Sublimating climate change

"Crunch" issues

What next?

More and more people are waking up to the need for an international climate regime based on the principle of per capita entitlements to the …

Compromising on climate

Jan Pronk, chairperson of climate change talks held in New York, offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks

A Call for Developing Country Leadership

The events of the last few years–9/11, the US invasion of Iraq, and, on the climate front, the emerging recognition that the Earth's …

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.

MNRE has no mechanism to claim CDM benefits, observes CAG

CDM first defined in the Kyoto Protocol with the objective of achieving sustainable development by preventing climate change

Exaggerated efficiency

The benefit of transferring technologies under the Kyoto Protocol's mechanisms is questionable

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 …

Cant miss the bus

Touchy Technology

Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on Methodological and Technological Issues …

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 …

CoP-8: Nothing's brewing

For a fortnight, 1,456 delegates from 167 countries sat in conference halls, attended plenary sessions and roundtables, and sized each other up …

Pressure mounts on UN body to withdraw support to 'dirty' CDM projects

Study criticises EU for using carbon credits from polluting waste incineration plants in developing countries offset emissions

G-77 and China to sell atmosphere rights cheap

At the climate change conference currently underway in Buenos Aires, developing countries are being confused, coerced and bribed into signing the …

Climate Control

Politics gets the better of common sense on the issue of global warming. At the upcoming climate change talks in Buenos Aires, US-led developed …

The US and us

India must combat climate change

Million-dollar Brazilian scheme to cut carbon emissions

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

Compromise on climate

Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement

UNFCCC meet fails to secure emission commitments