Biomass market in a flux

Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Plant owners, Ruhi Kandhari and Aparna Pallavi met say the picture is not that …

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

Sunita Narain analyses the Paris Agreement

Sunita Narain, Director General Centre For Science and Environment, Delhi talks about the wins and losses from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.&…

‘We have no time for emission offsets’

For 10 years Jutta Kill has monitored and critiqued EU’s climate policy and carbon trading with a focus on forests and the rights of forest …

Fanning an alternative

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

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

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 …

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

Climate of irrationality

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

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 …

Raipur's clean power plants using coal on the sly

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

CDM cleansing

African delusions

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

Mechanisms: Rough Guide

What Southern delegates and NGOs should watch out for in CDM negotiations

Contracting texts to expand emissions

Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear

Compromise on climate

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

The New Proposal

Pronk offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks

Mind that CDM: Discounting the future

A look at why CDM is not the solution for the poor or for sustainable development

“Not in my lifetime”

The new UNFCCC chief on a full climate deal

Carbon craze

Passing the carbon buck

Carbon discredit

Unmasked

Badlands can earn