Another co2alition of the willing?

2009 is full of promise

Can we afford not to change?

Not rebuilding for tomorrow

A monsoon warning

Cop-out

Hopes were pinned on the latest UN climate summit at Lima. It was supposed to prepare the ground for a new climate deal that will replace the …

Eco-socialism to fight climate change

With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet

Enter green bond

Market for green bonds picks up; experts urge caution

Inheritance of loss

Economic losses due to extreme weather events reach record high while nations spar over liability

Pressure point

At the climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, the world could get cooked, for good A curtain raiser on the climate negotiations in …

Race to kill kyoto protocol

As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …

Durban turning futile as EU buries head in sand

With the carbon market in doldrums, emerging economies like India will have to announce bolder schemes for a low carbon future

No climate for cleantech

Most of the clean energy innovations are with just six rich countries and hardly any technology is coming to developing nations

Climate inaction

What Durban did not discuss

IPRs are blocking access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. India offers a way out

No public transport?

Cars are swamping roads at an unprecedented rate, outstripping the increase in road space. The results are congestion, reduced mobility and …

Blame bankers, not oil, for climate impasse

Climate of irrationality

Developed and developing countries are divided over regulating super greenhouse gases under Montreal Protocol

Durban diary: a visual journal

Time-out

The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …