Toeing Uncle Sam's line?

India all but endorses controversial US policy on greenhouse gases

Blowing hot, blowing swiftly

Global warming could result in sudden disastrous climate changes

Shaken but not stirred

US sticks to its guns on not verifying bioweapons treaty

Hazy beyond Kyoto

Consensus elusive on future climate mitigation strategy

COP24: Carbon market talks go downhill

Key issues that render the environmental integrity of the Paris carbon markets questionable are the Overall Mitigation of Global Emissions …

The latest Indaba text: bad for the developing world

It only allows developed countries to continue polluting and shift the burden of mitigation to the developing countries

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

Things go North

Outside, there are demonstrations; registered observers are being refused admission without much explanation; and some metro stations are said to …

China does more than the US

Even as China reduces carbon dioxide emissions by reducing coal use, US policy encourages the dirty fuel

Green Future

The present phase of climate change talks ends with consensus on ways to implement the Kyoto Protocol

Factsheet: HFCS - realising the potential for climate benefits from the Montreal Protocol

In 1987, the Montreal Protocol phased out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), an ozone-depleting substance (ODS) used as coolants in …

Demand your share

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A meaningful TREATY?

The Kyoto Protocol to the Climate Change Convention is the first step towards defining the emissions reduction targets of industralised countries.…

Corporate takeover of the US

The Bush administration's agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore …

Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change

A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …

New proposal by LDCs

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Contracting texts to expand emissions

Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear

Smogging 'em out

Unbearable!

Global warming threatens polar bears

Placing the onus

New bill contains provision on making US industries liable to report their emissions

Time for a rethink

The climate regime needs to get out of the rut it is in

Conditional support

Russia throws a lifeline to Kyoto Protocol, but at its own terms

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 …

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 …

Compliance: More words

After a week of negotiations the compliance working group has produced nothing but even lengthier texts and more brackets, in short, a complete farce.