April 23, 2001 The US citizens are more concerned with cost than action to arrest climate change. Although 75 per cent of those surveyed in the US in a Time/CNN poll consider global warming a "very serious" or "fairly serious" problem, they are more worried about high electric bills or losing their jobs. Only 48 per cent are willing to shell out an extra quarter of a dollar per gallon of gasoline to reduce global warming and pollution.
Press Release Biggest rogue of them all APRIL 3, 2001 The world should declare the US a rogue nation for this act of extreme selfishness. And the Indian government should stop being a pushover.
March 26, 2001 Technologies exist to arrest global warming. But the political will toimplement them is missing NEELAM SINGH
March 16, 2001 The leader of the most polluting country in the world claims global warming treaty is "unfair" because it excludes India and China
February 28, 2001 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
February 15, 2001 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
January 24, 2001
January 24, 2001 The US government is in transition. But why should the rest of the world suffer?
January 05, 2001 Here at the Centre for Science and Environment we have received some responses to Equity Watch and its articles. Here are some of the opposite points of view as expressed in regards to Anil Agarwal's editorial, US Tastes Cream Pie, which was featured in Equity Watch, Down to Earth magazine, and CSE's fortnightly email.
January 05, 2001 After wrecking the climate talks in The Hague, the US-led coalition refuses to participate in further negotiations in Oslo The US led umbrella group consisting of Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand refused to attend the ministerial meeting in Oslo, Norway. The meeting was aimed at resolving differences that wrecked the UN sponsored climate change conference in November 2000. The group felt that talks were futile unless the EU changed its position on key areas.
November 22, 2000
November 22, 2000 The French President calls for equity
November 22, 2000 Back to Basics by Anil Agarwal Nobody needs a fair and effective treaty more than the South
November 22, 2000
November 20, 2000 Will CDM benefit Africa? African delegates would have done well to stop a minute and think of what went wrong with CDM’s closest cousin (or should we say clone), the pilot phase of the Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ). Of 103 AIJ projects carried out since 1995, only two were implemented in Africa.