Moving sustainability from ideas to reality and regaining the leadership of developing countries

MukulSanwal[1]

Moving from emission reductions to energy use as the basis for international cooperation must now shape our approach to the climate negotiations

MukulSanwal[1]

Lima witnessed the end game of a 20 year old negotiation around doing away with differentiation between countries at different levels of development and the beginning of negotiations on a global pact for sharing the carbon budget. It is all about geopolitics, not about the global environment.

Mukul Sanwal^[1]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has now unequivocally stated that “the evidence suggests that outcomes seen as equitable can lead to more effective [international] cooperation”.

Compromises have to be made by all

Mukul Sanwal

MukulSanwal[1]

Global climate policy is being reframed, moving away from an exclusive focus on emissions, the symptoms, to the causes of the problem, use of energy, and new sustainable development architecture.

The focus on current and per capita emissions has not led to the desired results

MukulSanwal[1]

A framework for updating the Climate Treaty

MukulSanwal [1]