Climate Change
Comfort of compromises
Complacently deadlocked nations at Cancun are posing cruel questions of extinction for some. Can we talk climate for a change?
By Aditya Ghosh
Ever heard of Kaminaga Kaminaga?
Dangerous liaisons
By: Hemantha Withanage
Sri Lanka is flirting with nuclear power
Sri Lanka is becoming a power hungry nation. Several coal power plants with a total generation capacity of 3,200 MW are on the anvil. The country’s new energy minister, Champika Ranawaka, wants a nuclear power plant by 2025. That’s a sure sign of change To be fair Ranawaka is not the first proponent of nuclear power.
How climate ready are we?
By: Sunita Narain
The world can shape the debate on climate link in two ways. One, it can argue endlessly about the scientific veracity of the link between human-induced climate change and the floods in Pakistan. Two, the world can agree that even if a single event—like the Pakistan floods that drowned a fifth of the country— cannot be ascribed to climate change, there is no doubt that a link exists between such events and climate change. The Pakistan meteorological department’s data shows the country received 200 to 700 per cent more rainfall than average. Rains came in cloudbursts in ecologically fragile mountainous areas and led to natural dam bursts and floods downstream. Rains were incessant leading to more floods and greater devastation.
Tech-transfer finds consensus on all but IPR issue
Text to be presented to high level ministerial segment could be the first positive outcome at Cancun
By Arnan Pratim Dutta
Cancun: A semblance of agreement on the crucial element of technology transfer may emerge as the first positive outcome at Cancun on the 10th day when a rather diluted text on the matter is handed over to the high level segment, where ministers get involved in negotiations.
The Protocol in dispute
December 6, 2010
The post-2012 emissions reduction commitments for Annex 1 countries under the Kyoto Protocol (KP) are presently going nowhere. Japan had fired the first salvo when in the opening plenary, it categorically stated its opposition to the second commitment period of KP. Now, countries like Australia, Canada, and some European nations have joined the chorus to disband KP.
Indian ICA proposal finds partial support in new drafts on mitigation actions
Cancun, December 2, 2010
By Arnab Pratim Dutta
Jairam drops a bombshell, blasts a hole in India’s negotiating stance
- CSE lambasts minister’s support to “binding commitment for all countries under appropriate legal form”
- India has always said its domestic mitigation actions are voluntary and not internationally binding. Minister’s statement contradicts this stand
- Removes the distinction between developed and developing world
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India stuns all at Cancun by opening up to binding emission commitments
Minister goes extempore, deviates from written speech to make announcement that writes off 'historical debt' and poses a challenge to development of millions in poverty
By Arnab Pratim Dutta
Capsizing climate boat: BASIC must stay together
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.
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