Unclear over nuclear
October 25, 2000
Sources deny reports that the Indian government supports the transfer of nuclear energy technology under the climate convention's Kyoto Protocol.
Carbon colonialism
October 25, 2000
Cheap Fix: The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism
NGOs in glass houses
October 25, 2000
Should Northern groups be pushing international financial institutions to stop funding fossil fuel projects in the South?
Per capita emissions of nations should converge by 2050, says UK commission
October 25, 2000
The only way to a lasting international climate treaty is to accept equal rights of all human beings to release greenhouse gases, acknowledges a recent UK study.
Should fat cats guard the cream?
October 25, 2000
Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.
LULUCF: Will better science prevail?
November 15, 2000
Despite uncertainties, long drawn negotiations focus on sinks as an option for carbon mitigation.
Compliance: Polluters turned monitors
November 15, 2000
Should potential defaulters get majority representation on a compliance committee?
How stringent will the Kyoto Protocol's compliance system be? What penalty will offenders pay? Who will decide the penalty for causing climate change? Should potential defaulters be represented on the bench, even if they happen to be the richest nations in the world?
Adaptation and Vulnerability: On the receiving end
November 15, 2000
Touchy Technology
November 15, 2000
The mention of technology transfer usually results only in a barrage of words at the climate negotiations, as in almost all other environment negotiations. Yet, transfer of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) from industrialised to developing countries is a commitment under article 4.5 of the climate convention, and an important tool to control carbon dioxide emissions.
Contracting texts to expand emissions
November 15, 2000
Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear
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