Factsheet: Carbon budget and INDCs

In its fifth assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published an emission budget which tells us how much CO2 …

Letter to the Prime Minister, India

India’s position at the forthcoming conference of parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change

Fixing cheap carbon

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

High hoopla

The meet on the sustainable development of the world's small island states turned out to be a fiasco

Climate Control

Politics gets the better of common sense on the issue of global warming. At the upcoming climate change talks in Buenos Aires, US-led developed …

Americans not very different from their president

The US citizens are more concerned with cost than action to arrest climate change

Compromise on climate

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

Should fat cats guard the cream?

Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.

Rising greenhouse gases

Is Kyoto Protocol a steal?

No cap on mechanisms

Green charade

US 'inside player' environmental groups slip into oblivion

Tidy gains

Rice millers to tap CDM

Lukewarm response

Bush, global warming and media

Cold war winners

Climate Logjam

After wrecking the climate talks in The Hague, the US-led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo

Look who's talking

The president of the world’s most polluting country blames India for global warming

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 …

Wolf at our door

The US has made the world rewrite the climate agreement so that the targets are based on voluntary action, not science

The US' mixed record in green causes

A globalising world requires multilateralism to attain shared goals -- particularly the preservation of ecological security. While this can …

How to make the Commission for Sustainable Development work

It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it seem like a distant event. The world has just seen an …

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

Russia ratifies Kyoto Protocol

Overwhelming approval by both houses of Parliament