HARDEV SANTORA
HARDEV SANTORA COPENHAGEN

As over 15,000 visitors descend on the city of 5.2 million to talk climate over the next 12 days and more than 100 heads of state or government expected to visit towards the end, the expectations have been watered down for a binding treaty on climate change among 192 nations, though a lesser contentious "political agreement" is in the work.

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: The draft proposal prepared by the host nation Denmark for the climate change summit starting on Monday removes the distinction between the developed and the developing countries and will be disastrous for India and other developing countries.

So far the effort to tackle global warming has achieved little. Copenhagen offers the chance to do better, says Emma Duncan (interviewed here)

A STEELY lot, India

Rich and poor countries have to give ground to get a deal in Copenhagen; then they must focus on setting a carbon price

Book cover of 'The Economics and Politics of Climate Change' edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron HepburnThe Economics and Politics of Climate Change
Edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn
Oxford University Press

Jim Inhofe has one mission for the Copenhagen climate change summit: to be a self-declared

This file photo shows the nuclear power station in Dampierre-en-Burly. AFPA group of Bangalore students is all set to educate world leaders gathering in Copenhagen for the Dec 7-18 climate change summit through a play on threats and challenges to environment worldwide.

Denmark, the host country and chair for the climate talks to begin at Copenhagen on December 7, has shared a draft of a proposed final political statement with select countries that would completely undermine the positions of India and other developing countries.