2009 is full of promise

India, Japan pitch for carbon credits from nuclear energy

Non-profits irked. Say lessons not learnt from Fukushima

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Indian companies' CDM projects pollute environment

Most clean projects cleared on face value and are based on tall claims

Durban diary: a visual journal

Letters

Carbon colonialism

Northern companies sign cheap, long-term leases for land with East African governments, hoping afforestation activities to be a part of the clean …

The KP Game

Developing countries cannot run away from the fact that at the present rate of emission growth, their combined emissions are projected to …

LULUCF: Will better science prevail?

Despite uncertainties, long drawn negotiations focus on sinks as an option for carbon mitigation.

The infection that the South must avoid

Trading of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will result in a disastrous situation for the South.

Outsourcing commitments

Book>> Carbon Trading How it Works and Why it Fails by Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes Dag Hammarskjld Foundation, Upsala Can be downloaded

A Call for Developing Country Leadership

The events of the last few years–9/11, the US invasion of Iraq, and, on the climate front, the emerging recognition that the Earth's …

Fossil Fuel Suicide Why fossil fools will cost us the Earth

fun and informative look at what harm fossil fuels cause and how renewable technologies can help stem the decline in our environment.

MNRE has no mechanism to claim CDM benefits, observes CAG

CDM first defined in the Kyoto Protocol with the objective of achieving sustainable development by preventing climate change

Touchy Technology

Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on Methodological and Technological Issues …

Will the mother of all deals be on sinks?

At CoP deals are being made behind closed doors and there is suspicion that the mega-deal will be on sinks despite the fact that it may not make …

G-77 and China to sell atmosphere rights cheap

At the climate change conference currently underway in Buenos Aires, developing countries are being confused, coerced and bribed into signing the …

The Katowice collapse

Katowice fails. Its decision and the Paris Rulebook agreed here are un-ambitious, anti-science and dilute the Paris Agreement, says CSE 

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 …

Nuclear Madness

Even as the world abondons nuclear power, the Indian government and industry are pushing for it

Miracle cure or placebo?

While CDM has been touted as the solution to all climate negotiation problems the reality is much different. This free market will impose huge …

Cabinet gives nod to ratify Doha amendment of Kyoto Protocol

The second commitment period or the Doha amendment will determine the course of climate action till 2020

Montreal Protocol negotiations: funding remains a roadblock

Negotiators have prepared a draft text to address all the challenges, except funding

CCS: Fictitious mitigation stumbles

Over the last few days of intense negotiations, Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged as one of the most controversial issues being …

Carbon credit earns profit

To keep afloat biomass plant owners have shifted their gaze to the international carbon credit market