Recession hits carbon trade

Never too many pedals

That's your sink

Making sense of climate debate

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Enter green bond

Market for green bonds picks up; experts urge caution

Losing light

Bachat Lamp Yojana flounders. Investors say faulty mechanism makes it a bad deal

Reliance’s unusual reward

It acquires CDM benefit for its business-as-usual power project in Jharkhand

The public relations republic

Billionth carbon credit issued

Kyoto Protocol device marks impressive milestone, but its effectiveness remains doubtful

A Brazilian Proposal

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

Wind is big

Biomass market in a flux

Biomass power generation started with a bang 10 years ago. Plant owners, Ruhi Kandhari and Aparna Pallavi met say the picture is not that …

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

How consumers were won

Sunita Narain analyses the Paris Agreement

Sunita Narain, Director General Centre For Science and Environment, Delhi talks about the wins and losses from the Paris Climate Change Agreement.&…

‘We have no time for emission offsets’

For 10 years Jutta Kill has monitored and critiqued EU’s climate policy and carbon trading with a focus on forests and the rights of forest …

Fanning an alternative

Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask nidhi jamwal and shikha lakhanpal, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, …

Climate inaction

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

Doha debates Kyoto Protocol

No market benefits for developed countries that are not part of Kyoto Protocol, developing countries demand

No freeloaders

Another co2alition of the willing?

2009 is full of promise

Agenda for Doha

Closure of long-term cooperative action, sought by the US and other developed countries that want to wriggle out of climate change mitigation …

India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy

Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima