Poor man’s burden

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

A Brazilian Proposal

Industrialised nations have introduced a Clean Development Mechanism to meet their reduction targets. In the second part of her climate change …

G7 commitment to decarbonisation could be more talk less action

While the US and Canada are moving from one fossil fuel to another, other G7 countries are burning more coal since 2009

Civil society groups call for an end to carbon markets, green economy

Margarita Declaration, issued at the end of the four day pre-COP conference in Venezuela, was backed by UN but goes against the global agency's …

India all for CDM

Government endorses six renewable energy projects to be set up with Dutch assistance

जलवायु परिवर्तन से बढ़ रहा है जंगल में आग का खतरा, स्वास्थ्य पर भी पड़ रहा है असर

यदि ग्रीनहाउस गैसों का उत्सर्जन इसी तेजी से जारी रहता है, तो सदी के अंत तक जंगल में लगने वाली आग का खतरा दुनिया ...

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 …

Breakthrough in impasse over toxic export ban

Parties take a step forward to make it easy to enforce Basel Ban Amendment

Countries pitch in for early warning systems and accurate weather projections

Workshops in Bonn focus on the development of contingency plans to tackle extreme weather events and their adverse effects on crops

Implementation of biosafety norms not satisfactory: Gbedemah

 Funds availability a major hindrance, says head of biosafety at CBD

Let us be smart about 'differentiation'

It important to deconstruct the politics of differentiation

Lima climate conference has to ‘write history’ to save earth, says Figueres

Over the course of the next two weeks, delegates will attempt to hammer out the new universal treaty, which would enter force by 2020

Warsaw climate talks: Farm emissions kept out of COP 19

G77+China successfully counter move by EU to add agriculture as a source of emissions for purpose of accounting

Even Japan not equipped to protect biosafety, says anti-GM group

Consumers' Union of Japan says its government has been unable to deal with the health and livelihood problems arising from imported GM canola

LDCs ring the alarm bell before Bonn

Demand higher ambition; will EU still take the lead?

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.&…

Warsaw climate talks: activists shunted out for showing solidarity with typhoon-hit Philippines

Developed countries counter agendas of the EU and the US

Traditional knowledge of fisher people may be included in the process of identifying marine biodiversity hot spots

Some countries noncommittal about identifying ecologically and biologically sensitive marine areas in high seas and territorial waters

Misguided shot

The Basel convention guidelines to manage plastic waste miss the point: reducing plastics is the real solution

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

Deal won, stakes lost

Cancun deal shifts burden on developing countries not developed

Why shouldn’t I be intolerant?

The circles of information have shrunk to what is most agreeable to listen to. It is no surprise that in all environmental conversations there is …

Canada, Australia questioned over low emissions reduction targets

Other developed countries kept mum as questioning progressed at the Bonn conference

Peru summit: dignitaries call for equitable climate treaty

Negotiations in Lima expected to pave the way for new climate deal

Will Warsaw deliver on equity?

Negotiating parties in Warsaw have started working on the new climate deal that will be signed in Paris in 2015, and those who had found it …