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Changing climate:
The big flaw of Kyoto protocol's ability to reduce greenhouse gases has always been that
it never provided a global solution to the global problem of climate change. At the
outset, developing countries were exempted from the required cuts in carbon emissions on
the ground that it was not their industrial revolution that warmed the atmosphere.
Claiming this weakened the protocol, the US, the biggest polluter of all, then weakened it
further by exempting itself. The US walk-out was serious for all its erstwhile Kyoto
partners but for more than neighbouring Canada (Editorial). |
| Financial Times, London, December 13, 2002, Page No.18 |
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Fire and Ice:
Quick, before it melts: This is the alarm signal from the Arctic ice cap which is likely
to ignite heated debate. This time it's NASA which has sounded the tocsins and its
findings are corroborated by the National Snow and Ice Data Center of the University of
Colorado, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Climate Change Programme of
the World Wildlife Fund and the University of Washington's Polar Science Center who have
done their own research on this. Perennial sea ice in the Arctic is melting three times
faster than previously thought, at a rate of 9 per cent per decade, causing permafrost
depletion and shrinking glaciers. (Editorial) |
| The Times of India, New Delhi, December
12, 2002, Page No.12 |
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Human dimensions to
climate change:
The recent Conference of Parties (COP-8) provided a platform for indigenous people to make
a bold statement against climatic injustices. |
| Rashtriya Sahara, New Delhi,
December 01, 2002, Page No.66 |
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