The global green farce

At UNCED the inclustrialised countries do not want any serloys restructuring of their economies or their lifestyles to save the earth. But the …

COP27 was a mirage in the deserts of the Sinai

COP27 was a grand spectacle; it created a sense of hyper-action, when it actually was about reversing the little gains made till now to combat …

CoP26 a missed opportunity: Graduate from kindergarten diplomacy

The much-delayed climate summit in Glasgow did little to acknowledge that combatting climate change requires cooperation at a scale never seen before

'It really riles me to see developing countries pushed into a corner'

Tough-talking Malaysian negotiator Wen Lian Ting explains why the North's stand on forests is morally unjust and politically untenable

Getting out of fossils

Quickly ramping up cheaper finance should be JET-P’s focus so that the new energy future is clean

Change the climate now

Now that the rich are also being hit by climate change & the “attribution” is clear, the targets for the world’s anger will …

Re-energise yourself

क्या हो कॉप-26 का एजेंडा

अक्टूबर के अंत में ग्लासगो में शुरू हो रहे कॉप-26 का एजेंडा क्या होना चाहिए, बता रही हैं पर्यावरणविद सुनीता नारायण

Intolerance in Paris: an opinion by Sunita Narain

As I write this, it is two days to the endgame at the Paris climate conference. Despite problems, everybody is clear that there will be an …

The World After

India be the party pooper

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 &…

2nd coalition of the willing: bad for climate and for us

The US and us

The polluters say they will not pay

Paris foretold and forewarned: what to expect from COP21

The French government knows it cannot make the same blunders as the Danish government made in Copenhagen in 2009, when trust between countries&…

Who's afraid of 2C?

All is not well: climate negotiations in a new avatar

Beyond Rio+20

From protests to where in 2012?

The true cost of water

Rio: not plus or minus, just 20

Bali: the mother of all no-deals

Climate lectures don't make lessons

20 years to…where?