Fanning an alternative

Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask nidhi jamwal and shikha lakhanpal, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, …

Climate inaction

Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand

With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon future

Doha debates Kyoto Protocol

No market benefits for developed countries that are not part of Kyoto Protocol, developing countries demand

No freeloaders

Another co2alition of the willing?

2009 is full of promise

Agenda for Doha

Closure of long-term cooperative action, sought by the US and other developed countries that want to wriggle out of climate change mitigation …

India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy

Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima

Countries disagree on framework for mitigation approaches

Workshop brings greater clarity on various approaches, but issue of double counting and disagreements on the role of UNFCCC still persist

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Indian companies' CDM projects pollute environment

Most clean projects cleared on face value and are based on tall claims

Climate of irrationality

Developed and developing countries are divided over regulating super greenhouse gases under Montreal Protocol

Durban diary: a visual journal

Time-out

The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …

The gas game

Fluorocarbons, which created a hole in the ozone layer, have generated intense global debates. But these have been more about business than …

Letters

Raipur's clean power plants using coal on the sly

They are registered as clean development mechanism projects, eligible for carbon credits