COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry

The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’  

A Brazilian Proposal

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

Dengue - reality bites

The millions affected have many to curse -- the mosquitoes, officials and the scientific communityby Ritu Gupta

Oceans may run out of fish population in 50 years

Fish might die in the next fifty years, or will they?

MAIght of OECD

A no-holds-barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs

Ostrich Singh

India's response to Bush is very disappointing

Comprehend

the problem, and then plan

Jammed!

The state of our nation

Integrate

The key lesson

No firm commitment on climate change at G8 meet

50 years of international aid: World’s richest countries owe $5.7 trillion debt to poor, says OXFAM

Substantial debt owed to world’s poorest people 9 times more than sub-Saharan Africa’s stock of external debt at 2019-end

Developing countries unanimously reject LCA text

None of developing countries' concerns reflected in the negotiating text; closure of LCA in Doha looks difficult

Failing to come clean

It is unclear whether the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol

Battle for turf

If the South wants to protect its interests against the power of the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO, it will need its own, equally powerful forum

Polluter says' principle

GEF should have been a liability fund, rather than a 'guilt fund' set up by the North to make up for the global damage it had caused

Free, not fair

Does a country have the right to demand that its domestic standards on environmental protection be applicable to all countries?

Wood-headed proposal

After almost 10 years of fighting for or against a forest convention, there is not even a common view on why forests are under threat and what …

Toxic travellers

Developing countries are wary of the proposed treaty as chemicals like DDT are still used in many malaria-prone regions for vector control

Rio's stepchild

Northern countries still see desertification as a local problem caused by population pressures rather than international trade patterns and …

Biodiversity

To energise the biodiversity convention, the world will have to first deal with difficult countries like the US

Boiling point

Climate change negotiations get emotional because carbon dioxide emissions are closely related to individual lifestyles - and to national …

Least developed countries set expectations for COP28 with Dakar Declaration

LDCs account for 1% of GHG emissions but are at forefront of the climate crisis, say ministers

LDCs ring the alarm bell before Bonn

Demand higher ambition; will EU still take the lead?

The shifting smoke of tobacco

Bali: the mother of all no-deals