Wishful thinking

The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …

Sunita Narain highlights hits and misses of Paris climate deal

The agreement has come after an intense two weeks of negotiations and represents a lot of compromises made, particularly by developing countries &…

Heading for showdown

Even as the US accuses the EU of rewriting prior agreements, the later agrees on a common approach to limiting flexible mechanisms for …

Gas chambers

Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs

Ready to renege

Reduced greenhouse gas emissions to impact profits

a new report will help people take informed decisions about investing in the automobile sector. It includes details of how efforts to restrict …

Russia reneging on Kyoto?

The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for …

The CO2 deal

EU set to clear emissions trading scheme

Critical conversation on climate change

BOOK>> Carbon Trading A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power The Corner House The uk 2006

China to set up a carbon-credit exchange in Beijing

Time To Introspect

Policymakers must put public health above everything else to chart the future. Consumers must demand change so that industry can be forced to …

The Kyoto Compromise

Focus on pledges

Accountability issue set to take centrestage at the upcoming CoP-8 (Read full article)

An uphill task

Sustainability still a long way off, says Worldwatch

Clean drive

A dinosaur mindset

All gas

Chief culprit

Study warns that in the future climate change could be primarily responsible for ozone depletion

According to Reports

A forceful endorsement

Kyoto Protocol gets a boost as Japan and eu ratify pact

Vehicles for change

Fuel cell buses set to steer Europe into zero-emission era

Faulty data, poor monitoring

A trading scheme for air pollutants could face the usual problem of implementation

An unsteady first step

Trading in energy-efficiency certificates faces major hurdles

In reverse gear

The Mashelkar Committee's interim report on the country's auto fuel policy proves to be a major setback for the CNG campaign

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