US-China climate deal: Maker or breaker?

Four-stroke complements CNG

Converting two-stroke autorickshaw engines to CNG not wise

New stick to beat developing countries on GHGs

Not rebuilding for tomorrow

Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions

In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various fields came together in Delhi to throw light on the …

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Brazil launches carbon reporting programme

Straw in the wind

Highest in 650,000 years

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Fuel prices delay emissions trading in New Zealand

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 …

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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 …

Letters

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Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…

The gas game

Fluorocarbons, which created a hole in the ozone layer, have generated intense global debates. But these have been more about business than …