Climate Logjam

After wrecking the climate talks in The Hague, the US-led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo

Look who's talking

The president of the world’s most polluting country blames India for global warming

The futility of CoP23

Although in its 25th year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is still struggling to find a way out of this century's …

Wolf at our door

The US has made the world rewrite the climate agreement so that the targets are based on voluntary action, not science

The US' mixed record in green causes

A globalising world requires multilateralism to attain shared goals -- particularly the preservation of ecological security. While this can …

How to make the Commission for Sustainable Development work

It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it seem like a distant event. The world has just seen an …

The New Proposal

Pronk offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks

Mind that CDM: Discounting the future

A look at why CDM is not the solution for the poor or for sustainable development

Russia ratifies Kyoto Protocol

Overwhelming approval by both houses of Parliament

Who's afraid of the Kyoto Protocol?

Russian president Putin?

Unclean process

CDM entity has poor record

No leeway

Climate talks inch ahead

Let’s talk land sinks: Are they enough to beat global warming

Despite caution from scientists, policymakers and corporates still assume that natural carbon sinks like forests will mop up their fossil fuel …

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 

The sinking debate

The climate change negotiations have come to a halt over the issue of sinks. Neelam Singh discusses the associated complications

Small step, wrong direction

CDM ensures that the first step taken in Kyoto towards a climate change convention was actually in the wrong direction. The Kyoto Protocol, the '…

Escape clause inserted

Although claiming otherwise, Bush's new plan leaves enough room for the US to raise its emission of greenhouse gases

Cheap fix

The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism

Wind power in India

Japan acts on Kyoto pledge

Gets clean air credits by undertaking energy projects in Kazakhstan

Food first

Wealthy and impoverished nations cannot share common environment regulation mechanisms

Shameless India

Warmer days Down Under

Russia lingers

Report on Kyoto Protocol delayed