Japan says ‘no’ to Kyoto Protocol second commitment period

 The ghost of the Copenhagen Accord has emerged at the Cancun climate change meeting, with Japan pushing for a single all-inclusive treaty. 

A week of non-results

A week of negotiations has passed in Cancun, but seekers of a binding deal on climate change continue to grope in the dark.

Tech-transfer finds consensus on all but IPR issue

The new mechanism would however be a compromise between the developed world, particularly the US and the developing countries. 

The Cancun Camouflage

Historic debt turns 'bad', politics wins over science of climate change   

New European Union report on funding commitments fails to meet developing countries’ expectations

CoP-15 in Copenhagen last year had begun with a bang. 

India rejigs MRV, proposes middle path on 'transparency'

India has urged the Negotiating Parties at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico to work through a middle path on the controversial issue of transparency on …

Indian ICA proposal finds partial support in new drafts on mitigation actions

India's proposal that all the countries with over one per cent of global emission share should subject their voluntary targets and mitigation …

India stuns all at Cancun by opening up to binding emission commitments

Minister goes extempore, deviates from written speech to make announcement that writes off 'historical debt' and poses a challenge to development …

At Cancun the move is to replace the regime to voluntary targets for all

India's shift in policy to support this regime will be disastrous for an effective and equitous agreement

The Last Hurrah, soaked in 'spirit of compromise'

Negotiators have a menu too long on the last day, here how they are poised

Factsheet: The Cancun Conference of Parties

Was the Cancun CoP successful? What happened between Copenhagen and Cancun, that made countries vulnerable to climate change give their nod to …

The futility of CoP23

Although in its 25th year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is still struggling to find a way out of this century's …

Cancun clinches deal—for polluters

Cancun has restored the sanctity of multilateral negotiations under the UN climate convention. People had lost faith in it by the end of the …

How US built consensus to get a deal it wanted

US machinations made everybody fall in line

Poor man’s burden

Developing countries shoulder the clean-up responsibility, yet it is not enough

Deal won, stakes lost

Cancun deal shifts burden on developing countries not developed

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 …