Paris Climate Talks Day 1: oh, so pious

Going by the happenings on the first day, the gathering at Paris seems to be all about homilies

Climate, capital and conflict

The alternative to fossil-fuel based economy is being sought in free market instruments such as pollution permits, cap and trade, carbon tax and …

Sinks: A carbon reservoir

There is lot os uncertainly on the question of carbon sinks. To what extent can they actually absorb carbon dioxide emissions? And, should …

Another crawl for humankind

The Kyoto agenda shuffled along at the recent climate change meeting in Bonn, but climate change mitigation was still not in sight

Clinton's costly 'gifts'

There is more than meets the eye in Clinton's emphasis on clean energy during his recent visit to India

More harm than good: New study scans global treaties on environment, rights

Kyoto protocol was not not as successful as finance and trade treaties

Carbon on sale

US organisations to begin trade in carbon dioxide emissions

What should be India's position at the fourth round of negotiations on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 2-13?

As the globe warms up, politics is getting the better of climate science

Energising!

Carbon on sale

US organisations begin trade in carbon dioxide emissions

Bonn and beyond

The climate change meeting at Bonn tentatively agreed to postpone resolution of issues

Caught guessing

Compliance tax

India approves Kyoto ratification

Why Russia isn't signing Kyoto

Climate changing?

Yes, but negotiations are not

Carbon trading in ERUs

Climate Emergency CoP 25: India’s mixed role

India continued to push developed countries on climate action but played a less-than-constructive role on other issues

Doha Getaway: World on line for new regime, US on track to escape

Two weeks of intense climate negotiations ended rather dramatically at Doha on December 8, 2012.

The theory sinks

Two new studies quash industrialised countries hopes of meeting most of their Kyoto commitments by using carbon sinks

The logjam continues

George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol

Fixing cheap carbon

Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible

Time to tell them off

Nobody needs a fair and effective treaty more than the South, but they arent getting it. They should tell the North to listen, or go home.

COP 23: Are countries ready for new market mechanism?

Developing countries need enabling conditions and more robust monitoring and accounting mechanisms for development of carbon markets

Wooing the opposition

US diplomacy carries home another offering to please their Senate -- an agreement on energy and climate change with China