Factsheet: Global Emissions

In 2013, the Netherlands Environmental Agency (NEA) jointly with the European Commission (EC) published a report on global carbon emissions. One …

Factsheet: The emissions imbalance

In 2007, the US had less than 5 per cent of the global population, but it accounted for 20 per cent of global CO2 emissions. India, with almost …

Factsheet: Extreme Weather Events

The number of extreme weather events is rising alarmingly across the world—increase in  heatwave frequency and the number of warm days …

The US makes its play

Hillary Clinton proposes a Copenhagen outcome that looks nothing like the AWG texts being negotiated by parties

US unwilling to yield an inch

President Obama delivers a profoundly (but perhaps predictably) disappointing speech in Copenhagen

Typical US

Anyone but US is the problem

Carving the carbon cake

NGOs literally cut up a carbon cake and distrbuted crumbs to the G77 president while the US delegates refused to accept their overwhelming portion.

Doha outcome adopted. US reserves its right to walk out later

US does a Kyoto again. It rejects the idea of equity by refusing to associate itself to any new agreement that is under the Convention.

Pact Politics

High political drama marks climate negotiations as the European Union strives to enforce the Kyoto protocol without the US. The South could play …

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 logjam continues

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

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.

That sinking feeling

Just like at Kyoto, the US and EU are ready to make back-room deals that leave out the concerns of the South. Its time for the G77 to speak up

Letter to the Prime Minister, India

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

What's critical at Durban: removing the firewall between developing and developed countries

Equity Watch

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

Americans not very different from their president

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

Cheers Chiraq!

The French President calls for equity

Equity Primer

A look at why equity is so important at the climate negotiations

Small step, wrong direction

CDM ensures that the first step taken in Kyoto towards a climate change convention was actually in the wrong direction. The Kyoto Protocol, the '…

Mind that CDM: Discounting the future

A look at why CDM is not the solution for the poor or for sustainable development

Bring the US back to the climate conclave: CSE

CSE media briefing insists on finding ways to re-engage the US in climate change negotiations and setting up a democratic framework with right …

RESCUED or DOOMED

Nations adopt a diluted agreement on implementing the Kyoto Protocol that gives away too many concessions to polluting countries

Sinks: Can't convince? Confound

The US has spearheaded a puzzling proposal on sinks that opens loopholes for their own emissions