Doha getaway: world on line for new regime, US on track to escape
The future of the Kyoto Protocol, between 2013-2020, could be agreed upon only when the Parties accepted the insignificant emission pledges of …
Warsaw Climate Talks Day 12: November 22
A developing country delegate received message that there has been no progress on long term finance.
Climate change meeting begins in Bonn
New deal must not attempt to rewrite or reinterpret the Convention, say developing countries
New ADP text circulated to countries. Negotiations to continue till late into the night
Talks under the Ad hoc Working Group on Durban Platform (ADP), tasked to negotiate the global climate deal in 2015, seem to be heading nowhere.
Rains in Uttarakhand extreme weather event: scientists
Unpredictability associated with monsoons will only increase as global temperatures rise
Warsaw Climate Talks: Day 11, November 21
China reminds parties of equity being key at Durban and the mandate for a workshop on equity and equitable access to sustainable development
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.
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.
Work plan under Durban Platform may prove contentious
Developing countries say the work plan can progress only if outstanding issues are resolved first
Report card on climate change aid: developed countries not transparent
Emerging economies cannot make emissions reduction conditional to financial support says the US
More Uttarakhand disasters in the offing
Soon-to-be-finalized state action plan on climate change full of extreme events warnings
‘Ganga basin temperatures to rise by 1-2°C by 2050’
Eddy Moors, who heads the Earth System Sciences and Climate Change group at Alterra Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands, …
Developing countries unanimously reject LCA text
None of developing countries' concerns reflected in the negotiating text; closure of LCA in Doha looks difficult
Doha debates Kyoto Protocol
No market benefits for developed countries that are not part of Kyoto Protocol, developing countries demand
One step forward, two steps back
Countries want to do little to keep global average temperature rise to below 2oC. The Warsaw climate talks have exposed this. A report by Uthra …
2001-2010: Warmest decade on record
Climate change is happening now and is not some distant future event: World Meteorological Organization general secretary
HFC-23 emissions on the rise
India, China threaten to release more super greenhouse gas; developed countries just as guilty
Climate of irrationality
Developed and developing countries are divided over regulating super greenhouse gases under Montreal Protocol
'Developing countries are treated in a very unfair manner'
Bernarditas Muller, a seasoned member of the Philippines negotiating team, is among the rare few who call a spade a spade. Speaking to Indrajit …
Environment Day Special
Carbon dioxide concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
US, China to work together on phasing down HFCs
India cautious in response; to disclose stand in Bangkok end of June
Bonn climate talks: move HFCs to Montreal Protocol, says EU
Developing countries dismiss appeal, say fulfill technology transfer commitment first
Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol
Loses moral position to call on developing countries to limit emissions
“We cannot sell the idea of equity back home”: US negotiator
Carbon dioxide crosses 400 ppm mark
Breach indicates sources of CO2 emissions in the US have gone up