Compromise on climate
August 10th, 2001 Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement
August 10th, 2001 Nation manages to resuscitate the Kyoto Protocol by a watered-down agreement
June 22nd, 2001 George W. Bush gets a hostile reaction from the European Union on his stubborn stand regarding the Kyoto Protocol Even as the US reiterated its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union (EU) has decided to implement it, with or without the US. "The EU will stick to the Kyoto Protocol and go for ratification, " announced Goran Persson, EU head and Swedish prime minister at the one day EU-US summit in Göteborg, Sweden on June 14, 2001.
June 22nd, 2001 Genetically improved plants in Vietnam to help Australia meet its Kyoto target as cheaply as possible
June 15th, 2001 US organisations to begin trade in carbon dioxide emissions.
June 15th, 2001 Two new studies quash industrialised countries hopes of meeting most of their Kyoto commitments by using carbon sinks Forests and soil 'sinks' may not eventually turn out to be so useful to industrialised countries in search of cheap ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Two scientific studies conducted in North American pine forests present evidence that estimates of increased absorption of carbon dioxide as its concentration in the atmosphere rises are unduly optimistic.
April 23, 2001 Pronk offers a compromise plan that gives away too much on sinks.
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.