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.
| Cancun draft pleases all, except a belligerent Bolivia! The deal circumvents all the contentious issues, erases historical debts, avoids legally binding global emission targets for wealthy nations, leaves the thorn of IPR in technology transfer mechanism for Durban CoP17 among others. | ||
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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.