Bribery is passé, ugly attempts to demean camaraderie among emerging powers as revealed in Wikileaks is worrying By Aditya Ghosh Two Climate Gates in two years. First it was the science and now the diplomacy. Both during a CoP.
I have reached Cancun few hours’ back to attend the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP-16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have been greeted with news that can only be characterised as bad or worse.
By Aditya Ghosh
December 1, 2010 Japan says ‘no’ to Kyoto Protocol second commitment period By Arnab Pratim Dutta, news editor, Down To Earth
December 1, 2010 New European Union report on funding commitments fails to meet developing countries’ expectations By Arnab Pratim Dutta, news editor, Down To Earth
December 2, 2010 India rejigs MRV, proposes middle path on 'transparency' By Arnab Pratim Dutta Cancun: India has urged the Negotiating Parties at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico to work through a middle path on the controversial issue of transparency on mitigation actions carried out by developing countries.
National Research Conference on Climate Change
National Research Conference on Climate Change
Date: March 5 and 6, 2010 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Last date extended to: February 15, 2010 Acceptance notification: February 20, 2010 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), and the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) are organizing a National Research Conference on Climate Change to be held at IITD Download pdf
The Copenhagen Accord is weak, meaningless and fundamentally flawed. It will be bad for the fight against climate change and bad for India.
Unable to agree on targets and funding, world leaders settled for an interim political deal. But the Copenhagen Accord could change the rules of the game by wiping equity off the agenda. Read the full story...
As Copenhagen nears, Obama’s America sees new hope: Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the charge. Their methods: jettison equity, peddle domestic actions and dangle carrots to break developing country unity. Some, like India, show signs of wavering. Kushal Pal Singh Yadav tracks negotiations in Bangkok. Read the full story...
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Visiting the US, one thing came home to me: the country has very little political will to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Policy makers and media professionals talk about the climate change crisis. But any opinion on cutting emissions, based on historical or even current responsibility, is just dismissed. The public perception, seemingly carefully nurtured, is it is runaway pollution in China and India that will devastate the world. Indeed, talk about serious action by the US is hushed up, for it will play into the hands of the Republicans.
The recent controversy on the IPCC report regarding Himalayan glaciers has been all over the media. Before dwelling on this matter further, it is important to recognize that it was a silly mistake on the part of the authors of the IPCC report (those who wrote and reviewed Chapter 10 of the Working Group II: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities), to pick up a non-peer reviewed paper and quote it as a definitive finding. Silly still, they quoted a definitive year – 2035 – for the vanishing of the entire Himalayan glaciers.