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ETHIC$: 'Your relation to your self in the act'
If developed countries want to start discussing
developing country targets, they had better start behaving like they are serious about
taking responsibility for their own emissions
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'You don't take
friends to court'
Enele Sopoaga, Ambassadro of Tuvalu to the UN, speaks
on the complex relationship between Tuvalu and Australia
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After 2012
Diplomatic hell breaks loose
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Bear
with me
Russia's storm in a climate change teacup
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Who owes whom?
by Andrew Simms
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Southern leaders: no idea
When was the last time the South took a leadership position in
climate talks?
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Please do, say scientists
The world should not only drastically cut down carbon emissions, but
should do it with a greater sense of urgency
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Hot pursuit -
cold comfort
Developing countries, instead of using CDM to their advantage, have
ended up depending on it
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Not so clean
by Lucia Schild Ortiz, Mark Lutes & Rubens Born
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Odingo's
report
Why CDM needs Africa
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Heading nowhere
by Jyoti Parikh |
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Sink
or Sting
CDM: bartering the future for peanuts?
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Looks Black
India and the carbon sinks idea, placed in perspective
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Carbonstocking
Some 'innovative' carbon sinks and their viabilities
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Go by rule
Money for nothing? Credits for free?
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Will the truth
sink in?
How much do we actually know about carbon sinks and their rle in
checking climate change?
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Interview
N H RAVINDRANATH of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc,
Bangalore and K P NYATI, head, Environment Management Division, CII
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After Limbo
by Tom Athanasiou |
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Pop of the world
Who needs somebody else to decide what's fair and what's foul
when you're the richest and most powerful nation in the world?
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This Hobson can choose
by Sunita Narain
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They aren't in.
So?
...what are the implications?
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A brief
history of bullying
A timeline
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Going bilateral
Straying into dangerous territory
Reading between the lines of the the US agenda
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Intense
pretence
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Our future
is history
by Ross Gelbspan
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| What they're saying |
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Scene 8 Act Now!
As CoP-8 begins in India's capital, it is time to intervene
and warn
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Diplomatese
Or, how not to ruffle feathers
To what extent does T R Baalu's "informal
paper" reflect India's official CoP-8 agenda?
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Terminator!
Climate Change impacts India.
A horror story predicted
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"The US always wins"
- Michael Zammit Cutajar, former Executive Secretary of
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Drawn into debate
The argument for per capita entitlements
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2002 |
A forceful endorsement
In a move that is likely to clear the air on
the intentions of key signatories, Japan and all the 15 member-states of the European
Union (EU) have ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
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Uncle
Sam coming around?
It is for the first time that the Bush administration has
linked an increase in global warming to human activities in the us.
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| Creative accounting
The US administration reneged on its
earlier undertaking on the Kyoto Protocol, choosing instead to come up with its own
climate change strategy: one that does not fool even the US' staunchest allies. By 2012,
this strategy is likely to result in a 30 per cent increase, over the 1990 levels, in the
emission of greenhouse gases
March 19th, 2002 |
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| Blowing
hot, blowing swiftly
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Global warming could result in sudden
disastrous climate changes
January 22nd, 2002 |
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| Never to be renewed reality
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The world’s highest energy consuming
country, the us , has done little to promote renewable energy.
January 15th, 2002 |
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| 2001 |
| All gas |
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Negotiations over the past four years
have diluted the already weak Kyoto Protocol signed in 1997.
December 31st, 2001 |
| Melting to extinction |
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Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate
changes
December 31st, 2001 |
| Modified by climate |
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Global warming has resulted in genetic
alternations among living beings
December 15th, 2001 |
| Green business |
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The EU proposes to start emissions
trading in 2005
November 30th, 2001 |
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The present phase of climate change talks ends with
consensus on ways to implement the Kyoto Protocol
November 30th, 2001 |
China does more than the US
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Even as China reduces carbon dioxide emissions by
reducing coal use, US policy encourages the dirty fuel
November 7th, 2001 |
Solar power in Asia
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The Philippines will get a solar power plant with the
largest ever capacity in southeast Asia by 2002
November 7th, 2001 |
First casualty
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Rising sea levels force Tuvaluans to
find new homes
November 7th, 2001 |
Deal or No Deal
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Governments are scheduled to meet in Marrakech later
this month to further the Kyoto process, designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in
industrialised countries. Will their efforts eventually control climate change?Experts
from around the world assess the worth of the latest 'Bonn agreement', reached at the
resumed session of the sixth conference of parties to the climate change convention (also
called CoP-6 bis), in July 2001
October 16th, 2001 |
Deep Impact , shallow response
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Climate change will trigger a series of ecological and
economic fall-outs for India. Though details remain fuzzy largely due to the apathy of
Indian policy makers and scientists.
October 16th, 2001 |
Earth Matters
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Will the North decide the path of sustainable
development for the rest of the world? Will the interests of the South be protected? As
preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development get underway, many
contentious issues boil over
October 16th, 2001 |
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Nations adopt a diluted agreement on implementing the
Kyoto Protocol that gives away too many concessions to polluting countries
August 31st, 2001 |
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Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a
watered-down agreement
August 10th, 2001 |
Pact Politics
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High political drama marks climate negotiations as the
European Union strives to enforce the Kyoto protocol without the US. The South could play
a crucial role pushing for a fair treaty, but it simply continues to squabble over a few
dollars!
August 10th, 2001 |
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Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help
Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible
June 22nd, 2001 |
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George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the
European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol.
June 22nd, 2001 |
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Two new studies quash industrialised countries
hopes of meeting most of their Kyoto commitments by using carbon sinks
June 15th, 2001 |
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US organisations to begin trade in carbon
dioxide emissions.
June 15th, 2001
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The US citizens are more concerned with cost than
action to arrest climate change.
April 23, 2001 |
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Pronk offers a compromise plan that gives away
too much on sinks.
April 23, 2001 |
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The president of the world’s most
polluting country blames India for global warming
March 26, 2001 |
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Technologies exist to arrest global warming.
But the political will to implement them is missing
March 26, 2001 |
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The climate change negotiations have come to a
halt over the issue of sinks. Neelam Singh discusses the associated complications
February 28, 2001 |
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Greenhouse gas emissions could raise global
temperatures much more than previously forecast leading to drought and flooding as weather
patterns shift and polar ice melts
February 28, 2001 |
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World Resources Institute, a Washington-based
non-government organisation, objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting
developing countries into reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Anju Sharma responds
February 15, 2001
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The US government is in transition. But why should the
rest of the world suffer?
January 24, 2001 |
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Even as the world abandons nuclear power, the Indian
government and industry are pushing for it
January 24, 2001 |
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After wrecking climate talks in The Hague, the US-led
coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo
January 5, 2001 |
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Some readers disagreed with Anil Agarwal's contention
that equity in climate negotiations is the best solution for global warming.
January 5, 2001 |
| 2000 |
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Just like at Kyoto, the US and EU are ready to make
back-room deals that leave out the concerns of the South. Its time for the G77 to
speak up.
November 22, 2000 |
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A look at why equity is so important at the climate
negotiations
November 22, 2000 |
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Back to Basics by Anil Agarwal
Nobody needs a fair and effective treaty more than the South, but they arent getting it.
They should tell the North to listen, or go home.
November 22, 2000 |
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The French President called for equity during his
opening speech in the Haque.
November 22, 2000 |
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The US has spearheaded a puzzling proposal on sinks
that opens loopholes for their own emissions
November 22, 2000 |
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NGOs literally cut up a carbon cake and distrbuted
crumbs to the G77 president while the US delegates refused to accept their overwhelming
portion.
November 22, 2000 |
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The financial mechnism of the treaty is likely to be a
sticking point but the US and the EU are delaying and diverting until the last minute.
November 22, 2000 |
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While CDM has been touted as the solution to all
climate negotiation problems the reality is much different. This free market will
impose huge costs on future generations in Southern countries.
November 20, 2000 |
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A look at why CDM is not the solution for the poor or
for sustainable development
November 20, 2000 |
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Back to Basics by Anil Agarwal
CDM ensures that the first step taken in Kyoto towards a climate change convention was
actually in the wrong direction. The Kyoto Protocol, the 'only show in town,' is a
poor one!
November 20, 2000 |
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After a week of negotiations the compliance working
group has produced nothing but even lengthier texts and more brackets, in short, a
complete farce.
November 20, 2000 |
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What Southern delegates and NGOs should watch out for
in CDM negotiations
November 20, 2000 |
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Will CDM really benefit Africa or will it end up like
the largely failed AIJ program.
November 20, 2000 |
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The working group on sinks finds principles most
expendable!
November 20, 2000 |
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If the world is serious about addressing climate change
it will have to immediately start moving out of fossil fuel technologies.
November 17, 2000 |
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A fun and informative look at what harm fossil fuels
cause and how renewable technologies can help stem the decline in our environment.
November 17, 2000 |
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Back to Basics by Anil Agarwal
Since we are all humans, and all equal, the question comes down to whether in the process
of climate negotiations we are going to act like a bunch of raucous kids or a group of
consenting adults
November 17, 2000 |
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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 good "carbon-sense"
November 17, 2000 |
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Should financial institutions be asked to stop funding
fossil fuel projects in developing countries?
November 17, 2000 |
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St. Lucia shows the way at a meeting of politicians and
NGOs that was sponsored by the Global Commons Institute, GLOBE, CSE, Climate Network
Africa, and Counterpart Europe
November 17, 2000 |
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While findings on the impacts of climate change get
bleaker and bleaker, the negotiations still hobble along at a snail's pace.
November 17, 2000 |
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On the eve of the start of the CoP 6
negotiations a quick look at representation in the Hague
November 15, 2000 |
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Back to Basics by Anil Agarwal
The answer to the current dilemma in negotiations is to make emissions from every citizen
of the world count equally
November 15, 2000 |
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Trading of Certified Emissions Reductions
(CERs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will result in a disastrous situation
for the South.
November 15, 2000 |
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Southern proposals on equity mysteriously
disappear amidst rampant talk of Kyoto protocol mechanisms.
November 15, 2000 |
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Working Group III of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released a report on Methodological and
Technological Issues in Technology Transfer. While flawed this report will assist in
tech transfer negotiations.
November 15, 2000 |
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Those least responsible for climate change
are on the receiving end of most of its effects. The North has a
responsibility to assist in adaptation.
November 15, 2000 |
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Many issues are still up in the air in
determining a compliance system, especially who will have the ultimate control over
monitoring.
November 15, 2000 |
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Despite uncertainties, long drawn
negotiations focus on sinks as an option for carbon mitigation.
November 15, 2000 |
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Interviews and Quotes
Paul Bauer
Come out of the closet
-Excerpt from an Equity Watch
interview with the cofounder of the US based NGO EcoEquity
November 20, 2000
Paul E Metz
Renewables are good business
-Excerpt from an Equity Watch
interview with the executive director of the European Business Council for a Sustainable
Energy Future.
November 15, 2000
Mohammed Barkindo
Some parties think they have divine rights
-Excerpt from an Equity Watch
interview with the leader of the Nigerian delegation.
November 15, 2000
Klaus Topfer
No Comment
-Executive director of the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP) when asked if UNEP was working overtime to position
itself as a broker for CDM projects
November 15, 2000 |
