November 15, 2000 The mention of technology transfer usually results only in a barrage of words at the climate negotiations, as in almost all other environment negotiations. Yet, transfer of environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) from industrialised to developing countries is a commitment under article 4.5 of the climate convention, and an important tool to control carbon dioxide emissions.
November 15, 2000 Southern proposals on equity mysteriously disappear
November 15, 2000 Fungibility? Is it a pasta dish? No. Is it a fungus then? Yes. It is a new fangled mushroom. It grows on a thing called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It means that that the Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) once bought from developing countries can be traded, transferred or exchanged. Good business.
November 15, 2000 Back to Basics by Anil Agarwal
November 15, 2000 We at Equity Watch are probably among the most arrogant people on earth. We are the rich of the South, trying to represent the poor of the South. We still haven't decided whether we should also represent the poor of the North. Perhaps one day we will. But we hope our readers will pardon this arrogance. It is an arrogance with a cause. An attempt to give a voice to the voiceless, a ear to the unheard and an eye to the blinded.
October 25, 2000 Cheap Fix: The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism
October 25, 2000 Should Northern groups be pushing international financial institutions to stop funding fossil fuel projects in the South?
October 25, 2000 The only way to a lasting international climate treaty is to accept equal rights of all human beings to release greenhouse gases, acknowledges a recent UK study.
October 25, 2000 Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.
March 26, 2000 The president of the world’s most polluting country blames India for global warming
DECEMBER 13, 1997
NOVEMBER 06, 1997 A potential bargaining tool to challenge the inequitable sharing of global common resources, such as the atmosphere, is slipping out of the hands of the South for good, according to Anil Agarwal, Director, Centre for Science and Environment New Delhi. He was protesting against India’s Prime Minister, I K Gujral, having endorsed the final Commonwealth Communique on the recent heads of government meeting held in Edinburgh from October 24-27.